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Edward Ratliff: Those Moments Before
by Troy Collins
The cover of Those Moments Before features a poster of Marlene Dietrich advertising Josef von Sternberg's 1931 film Dishonored. While this album--New York-based multi-instrumentalist Edward Ratliff's third as a leader--isn't a soundtrack like the earlier Barcelona in 48 Hours (Strudelmedia, 2004) was, this date unfolds with the same degree of wild eclecticism and globe-trotting impetuousness as ...
Michael Attias - Renku in Coimbra (Clean Feed)
New York-based saxophonist Michael Attias has a sound steeped in a somewhat unexpected amalgam of sources. He's obviously enamored of the free jazz canon and players like Jimmy Lyons and John Tchicai, but there's also a feathery, aerated inflection to his phrasing that obliquely recalls the Cool and West Coast schools of 50s jazz and specifically ...
Edward Ratliff: Those Moments Before
by Jerry D'Souza
Multi-instrumentalist Edward Ratliff brings a wide tapestry of sounds to Those Moments Before. His inspiration comes from Henry Threadgill, a funeral march, the tango, and Hong Kong movies, and he has assembled a stellar cast of musicians to help realize his ambitious canvas. The portrait he presents is a dynamic, moving one. Ratliff is ...
Michael Attias: Renku in Coimbra
by AAJ Italy Staff
La presenza di due brani targati Lee Konitz e Jimmy Lyons non è casuale. Del primo Michael Attias possiede l'eloquio dai toni astratti del secondo l'esuberanza controllata. Volendo completare il quadro dei riferimenti potremmo dire che nel contralto di Attias si ritrovano pure la morbidezza e la nonchalance di Wayne Marsh e la logica matematica di ...
January 2010
by AAJ Staff
Michael Attias BarbesBrooklyn, NY December 3, 2009Michael Attias is known for his work on alto and baritone saxophones, but on the new Clean Feed disc Renku In Coimbra he plays only alto. This was his game plan too at Barbes (Dec. 3rd), where he gathered together his Renku trio with ...
Renku In Coimbra
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Creep; Thingin'; Do & The Birds; Fenix Culprit; Wels; Sorry; Universal Constant; Creep (reprise).
Byzantine Monkey
Label:
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. La Reine de la Salle; 02. Acrid Landscape; 03. Run for the Hills; 04. Blind Pig; 05. Ciao Monkey; 06. Cajun Christmas;
07. Fez; 08. For A.H.; 09. Fez II; 10. New Belly.
Michael Attias: Renku In Coimbra
by Martin Longley
Within the realms of his Renku trio, the reed specialist Michaël Attias deliberately glides towards a contemplative space. His partners in sensitivity are bassist John Hébert and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. In this setting, Attias deliberately confines himself to the alto saxophone, although his sonic results are anything but self-shackled. Often, when Attias is playing around the ...
Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 5
by Mark F. Turner
An unorthodox timekeeper and masterful drummer, Paul Motian's momentum has not waned since working with Bill Evans in the 1950s, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Keith Jarrett's American Quartet in the 1960s, and, more recently, younger artists including Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik and Mat Maneri in Two Miles a Day (Loyal Label, 2007). Among Motian's ...
John Hebert: Byzantine Monkey
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si apre con il canto di una vecchia canzone tradizionale Cajun questo sorprendente disco a nome del bassista John Hebert [prezioso accompagnatore dell'ultimo Andrew Hill e perno del trio di Mary Halvorson] ed è al tempo stesso un atto propiziatorio - il musicista è originario della Louisiana - e una struggente dichiarazione di appartenenza poetica a ...
