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Domenic Landolf - New Brighton (Pirouet)
The cover shot to Swiss-born saxophonist Domenic Landolf's Pirouet debut offers a clever visual analogue to his music with a stark sepia tone view of Coney Island's Hell Hole attraction, now defunct some 15 years. Landolf's overarching concept on the date is an intriguing variant on chamber jazz past and present. Bassist Patrice Moret and drummer ...
Geri Allen and Timeline - Live (Motema)
Pianist Geri Allen is in the midst of an artistic and creative roll. Recorded at Oberlin Conservatory, this densely-packed and highly satisfying performance follows the release of a solo recital, also on Motma and carries forward in a similar vein with some marked departures. Chief among them is her crew of assembled accompanists. Bassist Kenny Davis ...
Tom Rainey Trio - Pool School (Clean Feed)
A much-belated case of “giving the drummer some", Tom Rainey's debut as a leader is long-overdue formal recognition of his substantial talents. Leave it to the relentlessly prolific Clean Feed label to recognize and rectify the lapse. Rainey's appeared on a number of the imprint's releases over the years and his gig docket remains reliably full ...
Air - Air Raid (Why Not)
Cue the bugles and bata drums: We're in the midst of a full blown Henry Threadgill renaissance thanks to a recent compiling of the multi-reedist/composer's Black Saint/Soul Note albums and another from Mosaic gathering his work for Arista, RCA and Columbia slated for the immediate horizon. Add to that copious bounty the reissue by Candid of ...
Row: Warne Marsh - Warne out (Interplay)
An inventory of Warne Marsh's discography immediately reveals a heavy skew toward the Seventies. Decades prior weren't nearly as kind toward the documenting of the tenorist's art. This set remains rarity even within the context of the comparative bounty of offerings that accompany his later years. Recorded over three days in the spring of 1977 in ...
Chris Massey's "Nue Jazz Project" - Vibrainium (Self-Released)
Saxophonist Wayne Shorter is one of the few jazz icons on record as a self-admitted comic book fan. The fantastic four-color mythologies of both Marvel and D.C. imprints have at least indirectly inspired several of his compositions over the decades, most conspicuously with the classic “Kryptonite." Drummer Chris Massey appears in possession of a similar admiration ...
Bill Carrothers - Joy Spring (Pirouet)
June 26, 1956 - a day that will forever register in the ledger of jazz tragedy. Pianist Bill Carrothers pays tribute to the two jazz icons lost on that faithful date, Clifford Brown and Richie Powell, on this consistently engaging trio session. Carrothers covers the major bases of the Brown and Powell songbook, also pulling in ...
Konitz/ Cheek/ Furic Leibovici - Jugendstil II (ESP)
How to improve on an already winsome formula? Such was a question facing producer Jim Black and bassist/composer Stephane Furic Leibovici in the wake of their first chamber jazz project for ESP. The answer came in an unexpected and inspired conscription, altoist Lee Konitz. Konitz has been influential party to these types of projects for well ...
James Blood Ulmer - In and out (in and Out)
A rare case of record title matching record label, James Blood Ulmer's latest carries that parity over to the music by not tinkering much with the successful strategy of past outings. Fronting a trio session, Ulmer's guitar positions up front with athletic support from bassist Mark Peterson and drummer Aubrey Dayle in close proximity. Peterson plucks ...
Oberg/ Thewes/ Griener - Lacy Pool (Hatology)
One measure of a composition's longevity is its relative receptiveness to reinterpretation. Steve Lacy's songbook was largely neglected during his lifetime, but the dearth of interpreters was more a function of a paucity of transcriptions than any reflection on rigidity or recalcitrance in his tunes. The German trio Lacy Pool proves conclusively the malleable properties of ...
