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Red Trio (Clean Feed)
An exact corollary between the RED Trio and the color crimson remains unclear. One possible connection is the manner in which this Portuguese threesome pushes the limits of their instruments as sound generators. The figurative effect is akin to a needle gauge tipping over thrillingly into the red, though that imagery is not to suggest that ...
Dan Aran - Breathing (Smalls)
Drummer Dan Aran chose the title to his debut disc with an eye toward metaphor and concision. His is a carefully-constructed percussive approach that studiously avoids bombast and ego in favor of naturalistic style that rises and recedes in a manner akin to respiration. For a leader and drummer that's a comparatively rare tack to take, ...
Matthew Shipp - 4d (Thirsty Ear)
Slings and arrows are something of a Matthew Shipp specialty. Whether he's artfully lobbing them at others or absorbing the brunt of them himself, he's never been one to shrink from candid expression or the lumps that often come with it. That kind of confidence also his informs his language on the piano. Stasis is his ...
Leandre/ Houle/ Strid - Last Seen Headed (Ayler)
A concert counterpart to their split live/studio disc on Potlach from 2006, this Radio France-recorded document finds this trio of masters in fine fettle in front of French audience at the dawn of 2009. Bassist Joelle Leandre has a personal command of her instrument rivaled by but a few and her arco artistry earns the admittedly ...
Burton Greene - Live at the Woodstock Playhouse 1965 (Porter)
Woodstock was a creative refuge well before the music festival that bore its name signaled a culmination of counter-culture sensibilities. Pianist Burton Greene was among a number of jazz musicians who made the area a second home in the mid-Sixties. Separated from daily grind of city-living they were able to develop and express their music largely ...
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune (Experience Hendrix)
Please excuse the prevalence of first-person commentary in this piece, but it just seems the smoother route to go in describing my personal reactions to this release. The commodification of Hendrix continues with this latest posthumous collection of odds and sods on the Sony-licensed Experience Hendrix imprint. I've lost track of the legal-wrangling within and without ...
Curtis Clark Trio - Taagi (No Business)
As was the lot of his mentor Horace Tapscott, pianist Curtis Clark's career continues to unfold largely outside the jazz celebrity limelight. That disparity in popularity relative to talent and activity hasn't slowed him down over the years. Clark's reliably sought out unconventional collaborators both domestic and abroad and managed to build a modest discography through ...
Brian Landrus - Forward (Cadence Jazz Records)
Caliber of teacher is often a reliable gauge for quality of student. Evidence of the truth in that relational adage, reedist Brian Landrus came under the tutelage of a number of jazz luminaries over the course of his educational endeavors. Several of those able to join him on this debut recording include saxophonists George Garzone and ...
Tia Fuller - Decisive Steps (Mack Avenue)
Being Beyonce's touring saxophonist may bring in bushels of bread, but it doesn't exactly help with earning jazzhead street cred. Tia Fuller confronts the double-edged sword of her lucrative side gig on this follow-up solo album for Mack Avenue in much the manner she did on her first. Naysayers need not bother, there's no sophomore slump ...
Marcus Printup - Ballads All Night (Steeplechase)
What's a Young Lion to do when he starts to grow long in the tooth? Only a few years past forty, Marcus Printup still has quite a ways to go until he reaches retirement age though he's been in the game for several decades and paid a number of dues. One in particular ended up a ...
