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Foltz/ Turner/ Carrothers - To the Moon (Ayler)
Music has long been a useful implement in the evocation of place. That hoary relationship registers at the forefront of this set, recorded at the height of winter in icebound Minneapolis in 2008. Clarinetist Jean-Marc Foltz mentions the “lovely, freezing cold day" that precipitated the completely spontaneous sounds. Cellist Matt Turner, an unsung improviser and native ...
Farewell, Fred
A previous post harboring hope now has as a sobering finality to it... Fred Anderson is gone. Details are widely available regarding the particulars of his passing so I won't dwell on them here. Despite best laid plans, I wasn't able to immerse myself in Fred's recorded work to the degree that I had planned. That ...
Liebman/ Parker/ Bianco - Relevance (Red Toucan)
By practically any educated estimation, Dave Liebman and Evan Parker are saxophone icons. Each man has advanced the post-Coltrane lexicon on the instrument in deeply personal and divergent directions. Liebman's preference is jazz-based. Parker retains analogous roots, but his reed explorations have also encompassed European free and electro-acoustic improvisation as well as modern classical forms. Those ...
Kenny Burrell - Be Yourself (High Note)
Advancing age has a disquieting habit of eroding jazz relevancy. Stars of the hard bop era alive today have to wrestle with bodies of work that can easily become millstones attached to their creativity. The old specter of diminishing returns isn't some harmless haint. Still performing and recording in his 78th year, guitarist Kenny Burrell knows ...
Evan Parker - Whitstable Solo (Psi)
Nearly four decades deep into the Evan Parker solo performance precedence and despite what some critics might contend the saxophonist is still finding fresh things to say on both straight horn and curved. A confluence of new recording space (St. Peter's Church, Whitstable), trusted engineer (Adam Skeaping) and extra-disciplinary collaborators (artist Polly Read and film-maker Neil ...
Michael Jaeger Kerouac - Outdoors (Intakt)
Michael Jaeger's ensemble makes explicit reference to one of the founding fathers of Beat poetry, but the Swiss tenorist is also careful to note that his actual inspiration source rests in the Dizzy Gillespie's composition of the same title. Now five years on since their inception the foursome is well-oiled improvisation machine. Pianist Vincent Membrez, bassist ...
Jack Walwrath - Heavy Mirth (Steeplechase)
The pleasures of a working band in action are profusely accessible on this latest session under the leadership of trumpet player Jack Walrath. Bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Jonathan Blake are the only holdovers from his last Steeplechase effort, the ballad peppered Ballroom, but the band was several tours steeped by the time they hit the ...
Orlando le Fleming - From Brooklyn with Love (19/8)
Bassist Orlando Le Fleming doesn't score many points for creativity when it comes to the title of this live disc. Fortunately, what's absent in left-field thinking is made up for through audible work ethic and dedication to craft. Culled from two dates at Freddy's Backroom in the titular borough, the disc's six cuts find the bassist's ...
Bill and Fred
Bill Dixon is gone. Fred Anderson is ailing. This week has been one of the worst in recent memory for creative improvised music. Reason enough to interrupt the relatively rigid format under these rafters for a salvo of positive thoughts beaming out to the families and loved ones of both men. I haven't been ...
Rich Corpolongo Trio - Get Happy (Delmark)
Tenor, bass and drums projects will probably forever be name checked against Sonny Rollins' pioneering parables with the form. In the case of Rich Corpolongo the connection fits. As one of the younger “old reliables" of Delmark's current tenor stable, his latest release is a long overdue showcase for his talents sans piano. Along for the ...
