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Two New TUM Releases: John Tchicai & Triot/Aaltonen, Cyrille & Workman
by Matthew Wuethrich
’Glacial’, ‘pastoral’, Lightless days’, ‘snow swept’: writers often feel compelled to resort to sub-arctic language when describing records coming from the Nordic countries. Of course, this compulsion is not unfounded. Jan Garbarek, Edward Vesala, and many others have all used folk song and spacious, melancholy moods as a basis for improvisation. But brawny free jazz and ...
Live: Yves Robert Trio & Andre Sumelius' Lift
by Matthew Wuethrich
For the past eight years producer Charles Gil has been doing his part for better European co-operation. A Frenchman living in Finland, he uses the financial support of the French Ministry of Culture and the Finnish organization ESEK to bring Finnish and French improvisers to tour both countries. His first tour was in 1996, and the ...
The Big Band Music of Onttonen, Ikonen and Mikkonen
by Matthew Wuethrich
--> The big band’s role in jazz has shifted throughout the years, riding the changes of the music itself. Used to be big bands were the place where young players cut their performance teeth, honed their chops and gained the confidence to develop their own voice. When jazz started to lean towards small groups, the large ...
Per Henrik Wallin: One Knife is Enough
by Matthew Wuethrich
The record has transformed our experience of music from a physical one to a conceptual one. In the comfort of our living room or car, we more often get only the aural nature of music, rather than the intimately visceral impact of watching a performer’s physical exertion. Swedish pianist Per Henrik Wallin, and the challenge he ...
Dog Out: Dog Out
by Matthew Wuethrich
Sex Mob’s Steven Bernstein has stated that he wants the group to revive the spirit of jazz, the spirit where people used to go out and “...listen to the music, go home and get laid.” Dog Out blares the same chord, like Sex Mob’s seedier, more bohemian (and Swedish) cousin. On their debut album these musicians ...
Gnomus: II
by Matthew Wuethrich
Gnomus’ second album continues to refine the atmospheric improvisation the group explored on its self-titled debut . Gnomus is keboardist Kari Ikonen, guitarist Esa Onttonen and drummer Mika Kallio. Ikonen and Onttonen also compose a variety of works, from small ensemble and vocal pieces to big band works. Kallio does not compose like the others, but ...
Joakim Milder: Monolithic
by Matthew Wuethrich
When Louis Armstrong laid down his Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions, he defined jazz as a soloist's art. Since his compact ruminations, generations of players have allowed the solo to define their identity and their composing. Think of Coleman Hawkins' “Body and Soul," Bud Powell's titanic keyboard workouts, Miles Davis opening new modal spaces on ...
Susanna Lindeborg: Time Sign
by Matthew Wuethrich
On Time Sign Susanna Lindeborg’s Mwendo Dawa has made one big mess. Depending on how clean a person you are, this could be good or bad. If you like to shove all sorts of timbral colors, rhythms, sonic textures and loose song structures into the closet, then open it and see what floods out, then this ...
Magnus Lindgren Quartet: The Game
by Matthew Wuethrich
With its third recording, The Game, the Magnus Lindgren Quartet has made a jazz album for the everyman. The album’s nine cuts offer something for everyone, a pastiche of styles sure to please fans of jazz’s more traditional forms. The group takes on soul jazz with “Sofia kom hem,” lay out on the advanced hard bop ...
Nordic Sounds: Jazz (and Beyond) in the Nordic Countries
by Matthew Wuethrich
America’s popular culture - be it movies, popular music or jazz - has exerted on 20th century European culture a profound influence. In music critic Simon Frith’s book, Sound Effects , German film director Wim Wenders says, ”The Americans colonized our sub-conscious.” But ironically it was not in America, but in Europe that jazz, labeled by ...
