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Luther Gray - Lawnmower (Clean Feed)
Drummer Luther Gray, an always reliable sideman in the ensembles of others, makes a welcome debut in the driver's seat on this date for Clean Feed. The underlying significance behind the album's title isn't self-evident so Gray helpfully elucidates it in his succinct liners. The tandem of Walkman listening and mower pushing formed the primary conduit ...
Ran Blake and Christine Correa - Out of the Shadows (Red Piano)
Cinema and music are inextricably entwined in Ran Blake's creative consciousness. He's a pianist though, not a filmmaker and his taste in moving picture media filters through a far narrower lens than that of the aural, fixating on noir and vintage musicals. Musically, he's all over the map. Practically anything and anyone is fair game and ...
Joe Chambers - Horace to Max (Savant)
The arc of drummer Joe Chambers' recording career hasn't matched the magnitude of his merit until relatively recently. Blue Note used him in a sideman capacity on a number of its seminal Sixties sessions, but never tapped him for the leader's chair until decades later and then summarily dropped him after just a single album. A ...
Brotzmann/Drake (Bra /Eremite)
Duets with drummers remain one of Peter Brotzmann's most reliably rewarding formats for expression. An active percussive partner accords him the opportunity to shuck down to his primal self in a manner larger ensembles often don't allow. Of the dozens of drummers he's engaged in such conversations only his old colleague Han Bennink matches the rhythmic ...
Wayne Brasel Quartet - If You Would Dance (Universitetet Stavanger)
Self-released but hardly rough-hewn in production design or packaging appearance, guitarist Wayne Brasel's latest is a smooth listening experience from start to finish. The dancing feet that adorn the cover give a visual clue to Brasel's basic aesthetic. Lightly swinging with clean rounded corners in common with what follows, the opening “Lightgiver" revolves around his grit-free ...
Paul Motian Trio - Lost in a Dream (ECM)
Few partnerships between label and musician remain as felicitous as that shared by Paul Motian and ECM. Described in certain circles as an anti-drummer, a back-handed reduction also ascribed to Shelly Manne back in the day, Motian's language at the kit is commonly the epitome of economy and nuance. Bombast and obviousness are his adversaries. Spaciousness, ...
Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones - Ya Ya- (Meta)
Subtitled “A Psalm of Prototypical Vibrations", Adam Rudolph's latest project for percussion and partner is firmly ensconced in the guiding spiritual philosophy that has long informed his playing. Under his conception, rhythms are a conduit and connective tissue for life. Percussive instruments, referred to here as membranophones and idiophones, are but one family of vessels through ...
OM - Willisau (Intakt)
Forbearers in the fringe mergers of free jazz and rock in the early the Seventies, the Swiss quartet OM blazed a trail in Europe for the better part of a decade before disbanding in favor of solo careers. For those listeners who weren't around for that heady first go round this summer of 2008 reunion set ...
Mike Reed's People, Places and Things - Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
The last tine in drummer Mike Reed's three-pronged exploration of Chicago jazz history, this disc is appropriately climactic in its inspired variation on the project's guiding theme. Reed conscripted three living legends with deep ties to the Windy City scene - trumpeter Art Hoyle, trombonist Julian Priester and multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, heard solely on tenor - ...
Stephan Crump - Reclamation (Sunnyside)
Echoing the ancient cross-textual applications of its namesake, Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio is something of a departure in contemporary jazz: A string ensemble that translates the chamber connotations of its instrumentation into a strong rhythmic versatility more endemic to American folk forms. Crump leads the group from a position of quiet authority on double bass. Guitarists ...
