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Nordic Connect: Spirals
by Troy Collins
Scandinavian jazz has enjoyed quite a renaissance over the past few decades, ranging from the cool Norwegian austerity of Jan Garbarek and Terje Rypdal's seminal 1970's recordings to the fiery Swedish expressionism of Magnus Broo and Mats Gustafsson's recent avant-garde excursions. Spirals, the sophomore effort of Nordic Connect, embraces both aesthetic dualities, serving as a pertinent ...
Needs!
Label: Dancing Wayang
Released: 2010
Track listing: Needs!--to The Ex; Sources of Such--to Sten Sandell; Ethiopian Swing--to Lello Jarvis; Language of Y(our)s--to Clay Ketter; The Written and Spoken Such--to Leif Elggren; Can Yours Bark?--to The Thang; Forever Strictly Forbidden--to Sten Hansson; Surrounded by Short Reflexes--to Raymond Strid; It's Amore--to John, Mariam & Andreas; Freak Pipeline--to John Corbett.
Eyal Hareuveni's Best Releases of 2010 and More
by Eyal Hareuveni
Best new releases (in no particular order): Eple Trio, In The Clearing/In The Cavern (NORCD)Harris Eisenstadt, Woodblock Prints (No Business)Savina Yannatou/Barry Guy, <em>Attikos</em> (Maya)<br /><br />{{Agustí Fernández/Barry Guy/Ramón López, Morning Glory (Maya)Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and& Kim Myhr, Stems And Cages (MNJ)Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Eirik Hegdal ...
dOeK Festival #9: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 4, 2010
by John Kelman
dOeK Festival #9BimhuisAmsterdam, The NetherlandsDecember 4, 2010 While the majority of the 200 international delegates who attended Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2010, in Amsterdam, struggled with flight delays due to an early and tremendously severe arrival of winter and, for some, the impact of an air traffic controller strike in ...
Mats Gustafsson: Needs!
by John Eyles
For anyone who has recently seen Mats Gustafsson live in concert, either with The Thing or in his own right, Needs! is likely be a surprise. In addition to his baritone and slide saxophones, here Gustafsson employs live electronics and “bug treatments." Photographs of him in action indicate that these involve miking the bell of his ...
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1
en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona
by Enrique Turpin
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaLuz de Gas7 de noviembre, 2010Fue el domingo un día atípico en Barcelona. La ciudad andaba envuelta en humos de incensarios y cortejos vaticanos de extraño semblante. Los Once de Peter Brötzmann parecía que venían a cumplir una misión; no sólo ...
Joe McPhee / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: Blue Chicago Blues
by Mark Corroto
The pairing of saxophonist Joe McPhee and bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten seemed inevitable. Both the US-born McPhee and Norwegian Håker Flaten have worked in the same circle of players for years. The Ken Vandermark (Chicago) and Mats Gustafsson (Swedish) connections have made their services valued in varying bands.This meeting, in Chicago 2007, is a ...
Une, Deux, Trois: Solo, Duo and Trio Improvisation from Europe
by Clifford Allen
At one point in time, the term “European Improvisation" meant something quite specific, carrying with it an air of otherness to American jazz audiences, solidarity to European jazz audiences, and presented rarified and sometimes unruly music based on folk, classical and open forms. In the ensuing decades, the world has grown a bit smaller, and intercontinental ...
Frode Gjerstad / Paal Nilssen-Love: Gromka
by Mark Corroto
It is hard to choose which duo partner of drummer Paal Nilssen-Love to favor over another, as there are simply so many to pick from. There are his collaborations with Ken Vandermark, heard on their Chicago Volume and Milwaukee Volume (Smalltown Superjazz, 2009); the fine Peter Brotzmann session, Woodcuts ((Smalltown Superjazz, 2010); Mats Gustafsson's Splatter (Smalltown ...
