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Ganelin Trio Priority: Live in Lugano 2006

by Marc Medwin
There's nothing like hearing a group in concert to reawaken interest. The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated. Slava Ganelin himself, the founder and only original member of the ...
Dave Fox: ORM & If These Songs Could Talk
by Marc Medwin
Gratkowski/Fox/Menestres/Davis ORM Umbrella 2007 Dave Fox Group If These Songs Could Talk Big Dog Applewood 2007 Pianist, composer and teacher Dave Fox demonstrates his diversity on these ...
John Coltrane: Fearless Leader

by Marc Medwin
2007 is a significant Coltrane year as we commemorate his untimely death in July, 1967. 2006 predated the occasion with a fine release more quietly revelatory than the shocking Monk and Trane At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note, 2005) concert. Fearless Leader groups together, on six discs, the sessions that Coltrane recorded for Prestige ...
Positive Knowledge: Invisible Wisdom

by Marc Medwin
The duo of Oluyemi and Ijeoma Thomas continues to be a potent one on this, the long-running Positive Knowledge collaboration's release Invisible Wisdom. Recorded live at 2005's Vision Festival, it's a widely varied and ultimately rewarding set where the only problem is a slightly distant recording. That understood, the music is some of ...
Louis Moholo-Moholo

by Marc Medwin
"It's all about freedom man," says drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and the softness in his voice belies and underpins the experience behind his words. It becomes really important, the most important thing in the world, especially after all I've been through."The telephone connection to South Africa is not great, from where Moholo-Moholo speaks, where he ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Streaming & Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
by Marc Medwin
Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell Streaming Pi 2006 Roscoe Mitchell / The Transatlantic Art Ensemble Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 ECM 2007 Roscoe Mitchell moves from ...
Fred Frith/Chris Cutler: Issue Two

by Marc Medwin
This addition to the Frith/Cutler catalogue was recorded during the Henry Cow reunion weekend at New York City's The Stone in December, 2006; for those familiar with the recent working methods of both musicians, the only surprise is how rich and full this document sounds. Consisting of one 50-minute track, the duo creates the illusion of ...
KSJazz: Jarmo Savolainen, Nordic Trinity & Chris Berger
by Marc Medwin
Jarmo Savolainen Songs for Trio KSJazz 2006 Nordic Trinity Wonders Never Cease KSJazz 2006 Chris Berger Conversations KSJazz 2007
Joe Fonda: ZMF Trio & Angelini/Fonda/Lopez

by Marc Medwin
ZMF Trio Circle The Path Drip Audio 2006 Bruno Angelini/Joe Fonda/Ramon Lopez Silent Cascade Konnex 2006 These two recent trio releases find American bassist Joe Fonda refining ...
Passin' Thru Records
by Marc Medwin
"Ellington used to say 'Beyond category' and some of my cohorts call it 'Great Black Music' but I realize that the categories have been in existence for so long; at the same time, I'm not going to get bent out of shape when somebody calls this music 'jazz', because there's a long history at work.