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Time Changes
By Mark Dresser
Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2005
Track listing: Aperitivo; Pulse Field; Heap; M.C.; One Plate; Double You; Harkemony; Lateral Mass; Kilter;
Between 17th and Bliss; Ekoneni.
Mark Dresser/Denman Maroney: Time Changes
by Brian P. Lonergan
Listening to bassist Mark Dresser and pianist Denman Maroney's Time Changes is often like being in a car with someone trying to learn stick shift--smooth coasting is interrupted by sudden lurches, premature downshifts, or unexpected accelerations. To the musicians' credit, though, the music never stalls. By creating tension with so many rhythmically off-kilter sections, the passages ...
Nine Songs Together
By Mark Dresser
Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: One Plate (13:24)/ I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (7:55)/ Ekoneni (3:46)/ Taps for Jackie (10:54)/ Slipinstyle (6:03)/ The Five Outer Planets: Jupiter (2:02)/ Saturn (:57)/ Uranus (2:10)/ Neptune (2:12)/ Pluto (2:26)/ The Feast of Love (6:12)/ Insistent (4:29)/ I
Mark Dresser/Ray Anderson: Nine Songs Together
by Kurt Gottschalk
Despite a long association, bassist Mark Dresser and trombonist Ray Anderson make an unusual pair. The quintessentially New York Dresser is known for his deep, soul-stirring improvisations (his suite “The Five Outer Planets” here hints at his enormity of scale); Anderson, despite being born in Chicago and an early tenure in Anthony Braxton’s quartet, is more ...
Anthony Braxton at Yoshi's
by Robert Spencer
Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Festival took Yoshi's the last week of August and introduced West Coast fans to what the master called “the next level of my work." As always, Mr. Braxton's pace and breadth of vision is breathtaking. In the Seventies and Eighties he moved beyond playing simple song forms, stringing composed sections together with ...
Mark Dresser & Ray Anderson: Nine Songs Together
by Derek Taylor
As an educator, Anthony Braxton is easily on par with such luminaries as Captain Walter Dyett and Art Blakey. Near innumerable students have passed through his classes at Wesleyan and/or benefited from the musical incubators that are his bands. Among their number are Messieurs Dresser and Anderson. Both men have built careers from their early associations ...
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
