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Karl Berger and Dom Minasi: Synchronicity
by Eyal Hareuveni
Pianist/vibraphonist Karl Berger and guitarist Dom Minasi are both forward-thinking and experienced composers, improvisers and educators, with discographies that goes back to the 1960s--including, in the case of Berger, collaborations with Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Carla Bley; and, with Minasi, 1970s work with Joe McPhee and Matthew Shipp. Synchronicity's twelve freely improvised ...
March-April 2012: Dan Hanrahan, Matthew Shipp, Danilo Perez, Aerial Photograph
by RJ Johnson
Dan Hanrahan TrioMoonstone Arts CenterFebruary 22, 2012The Moonstone Arts Center, one of Philadelphia's more successful outlets for jazz music, has been growing in popularity amongst local musicians as a venue geared towards supporting original music. Dan Hanrahan, a guitarist well versed in jazz tradition, led his organ trio through a ...
Matthew Shipp with Mat Maneri & Joe Morris: Duos
by AAJ Italy Staff
Duos riunisce alcuni brani tratti da Thesis, duetto di Matthew Shipp con il chitarrista Joe Morris datato 1997, e altri tratti da Gravitational Systems, album registrato l'anno successivo da Shipp con il violinista Mat Maneri. La perfetta alternanza dei brani tra un'incisione e l'altra non è un semplice escamotage organizzativo ma un segnale di circolarità espressiva ...
Dan Cray: Meridies
by C. Michael Bailey
There is nothing iconoclastic about pianist Dan Cray. He derives his piano style more from Tommy Flanagan and Hank Jones than Matthew Shipp or Ran Blake. He has been driving a trio through four previous recordings: Who Cares (Cray Sounds, 2001); No One (Blujazz productions, 2003); Save Us! (Blujazz productions, 2005); and Over Here Over Heard ...
International Jazz Day Album Guide
Steve Holtje, editor of MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide (Visible Ink), has written a 50-album guide covering the development from jazz, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Matthew Shipp, for CultureCatch.com. He writes: Monday, April 30, is International Jazz Day, proclaimed by UNESCO goodwill ambassador Herbie Hancock. There will be streaming concerts and much more on ...
Take Five With James Brandon Lewis
by AAJ Staff
Meet James Brandon Lewis: Saxophonist/composer James Brandon Lewis was exposed to jazz, gospel, and R&B and at an early age began his journey into the realm of music. He attended Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts located in Buffalo NY. Upon graduating, James would continue his musical pursuit At Howard University, where ...
Matthew Shipp Trio Record Release Celebration at Philadelphia Art Alliance on March 9
Friday, March 9, 8pm MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO Matthew Shipp, piano; Michael Bisio, bass; Whit Dickey, drums Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th Street, $15 Please join Ars Nova Workshop for the Philadelphia debut of the Matthew Shipp Trio. Following 2011's spectacular The Art Of The Improviser LP, tonight Shipp's Trio celebrates the ...
Ivo Perelman / Joe Morris / Gerald Cleaver: Family Ties
by Troy Collins
Family Ties is São Paulo-born saxophonist Ivo Perelman's sixteenth release for Leo Records and the sixth named after one of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's intense psychological works of fiction. Each of the record's six pieces is similarly titled after a short story from the aforementioned collection, yet the album's designation offers a broader, more salient interpretation ...
Ivo Perelman / Joe Morris / Gerald Cleaver: Family Ties
by Mark Corroto
Her boyfriend might have left Janis Joplin with nothing, as she asserts in her classic version of Kris Kristofferson's Me and Bobby McGee," but Ivo Perelman refutes Joplin's claim that freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" on Family Ties.The Brazilian saxophonist has returned to recording with a deluge of releases, this ...
Matthew Shipp Trio: Elastic Aspects
by John Sharpe
Even with a discography amassing over 40 releases under his own name, pianist Matthew Shipp continues to justify the plaudits. Sometimes it can be hard to find new things to say about artists who have been active over such a lengthy period, but Shipp keeps ringing the changes to provide talking points. Unlike the stellar live ...


