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Clean Feed 2018
by Mark Corroto
Since it's inception in 2002, Lisbon, Portugal's Clean Feed Records has released nearly 500 recordings. Last year the total was 64. Keeping up with their output might be the best way to follow innovative jazz and improvised music in the 21st century. Besides releasing music by masters such as Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, Ivo Perelman, Elliott ...
Culture Clubs: Part IV: When Jazz Met Europe
by Karl Ackermann
The Geography of Jazz--When Jazz Met Europe In 2004 Maureen Anderson, a researcher at Illinois State University contributed a dissertation to the journal, African American Review, titled The White Reception of Jazz in America. Ostensibly, her article deals with stories published in high profile periodicals and journals from 1917 and into the 1930s, written by white ...
Kjetil Møster: Ran Do
by Mark Corroto
More than in any other American jazz scene, the musicians of Chicago have embraced and continue to embrace their colleagues in Europe and the UK. In the 1990s the Chicagoan Ken Vandermark began a long-standing association with Mats Gustafsson (Sweden) and Peter Brotzmann (Germany). And Hamid Drake has been crisscrossing the Atlantic for ages. These connections ...
Fire! alla Sala Vanni di Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Fire! Firenze Sala Vanni Musicus Concentus & Metastasio Jazz 16.2.2018 Pubblico che non si vedeva da anni in Sala Vanni, per il secondo virtuoso “incrocio" tra Musicus Concentus e Metastasio Jazz 2018: di scena uno dei gruppi di punta della scena internazionale, il trio Fire! degli svedesi Mats Gustafsson, ...
Fire!: The Hands
by John Eyles
There are reasons to consider the 2018 release of The Hands as an important one for Fire! It was in 2008 that saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werlin first came together as a trio with the idea of a fresh approach to improvised music. Given the groups that the three were in ...
Liudas Mockūnas / Arnas Mikalkenas / Håkon Berre: Plunged
by John Sharpe
Recorded at the 2014 Vilnius Jazz Festival by a band comprising two Lithuanians and a Norwegian, which was one of the standouts of the 2017 Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival, Plunged proves an unexpected delight. Of the three participants, reedman Liudas Mockūnas is likely best known, having recorded with bassist Barry Guy, drummer William Hooker and saxophonist ...
3 Nights In Oslo
Label: Catalytic Sound
Released: 2017
Track listing: Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Michael Zerang / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Johannes Bauer / Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1].
Musicianer: Slow Learner
by John Sharpe
With Musicianer reedman Josh Sinton adroitly shows how to combine the abstract and the earthy. It helps that he has enlisted long time associates drummer Chad Taylor and bassist Jason Ajemian to realize the eleven compositions on the group's debut Slow Learner. Taylor, who first garnered international attention in the Chicago Underground Duo (etc) with cornetist ...
All That's Jazz
by Phil Barnes
All That's Jazz Sammy Stein 198 Pages ISBN: 13: 978-0-9557670-9-8 Tomahawk Press 2017 Sammy Stein is a brave woman. Take that title--not just a riff on “All That Jazz" to cover a personal memoir of time spent in the jazz trenches but ALL that IS jazz. This is a ...
Yedo Gibson / Hernani Faustino / Vasco Trilla: Chain
by John Sharpe
Fast changing textural interplay is the name of the game on Chain which comprises six group inventions, all falling within the 8-14 minute bracket, recorded in Lisbon in June 2016. A familiar presence on the Amsterdam scene, Brazilian-born saxophonist Yedo Gibson appears the de facto leader of a collective trio, accompanied by Portuguese/Catalan drummer Vasco Trilla ...
