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Vinny Golia: Music for Like Instruments: The Clarinets
by Michael Davis
Quick, when was the last time you were confronted by a quintet of clarinets? Even in the wide-open world of creative jazz, who out there puts five black sticks in your ear and makes you like it? Yes, this is the latest installment of Vinny Golia's Music for Like Instruments series, and as with the others, ...
Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake/William Parker: Blue Winter
by Michael Davis
This record is a joy. A surprise it isn't. These three men have overlapping histories of development and collaboration of such depth that when they convene nowadays, the results are always inspired. One of Hamid Drake's early mentors was AACM mainstay Fred Anderson, who decided to stay home in Chicago, tend bar, and keep his connections ...
Rick Helzer: Face in the Mirror
by Michael Davis
When the South Bay-based trio Big World broke up in the early '90s, many local jazz fans were disappointed, feeling that, even after two good albums, the band's potential hadn't really been reached. Yet now, in 2005, it would appear that all three musicians are playing some of the best music of their lives. Tenor saxophonist ...
Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey: Out Trios, Volume 3: Ash & Tabula
by Michael Davis
The idea behind Atavistic's Out Trios series appears to be a sound one. Put three compatible improvisers in a room, turn on the machines, and let 'em rip. Now although these particular artists don't play together frequently, they share skills on the highest level. They listen and respond to each other so quickly ...
Steuart Liebig: Quicksilver
by Michael Davis
Bassist/composer Steuart Liebig has been one of LA's most prolific jazz jugglers for years now. At any given time, he may have half a dozen bands in the air, a couple behind his back, and a few improvisational relationships on the side. Over the last decade, he's put out recordings on Nine Winds, Cryptogramophone, Cadence Jazz, ...
Trumpets Eleven
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: Permit Required; C to Z; Blue Day; Brass Walk; Zona; San Jose; Big City; Cole Henry; Schapa; Family Tree (49:13).
Michael Davis: Trumpets Eleven
by Jack Bowers
While one never knows what trombonist/entrepreneur Michael Davis may be up to next, it’s a safe bet that whatever it is will be musically and aesthetically rewarding. It wasn’t too long ago that Davis persuaded more than fifty of the country’s foremost trumpeters, trombonists, tuba and French horn players to come together (sometimes in separate studios) ...
Walter Thompson: PEXO: A Soundpainting Symphony
by Michael Davis
Composer/reed player Walter Thompson is a musician's musician, someone who does consistently interesting work, yet whose name rarely surfaces in the pool of public opinion. Past projects have featured major players from both coasts—Nels and Alex Cline, Vinny Golia, Dave Douglas, Herb Robertson, Thomas Chapin—and if the members of his current aggregation lack such international reputations, ...
Eric Dolphy: This is Eric Dolphy
by Michael Davis
This oft-reissued set still makes an ideal stocking-stuffer for several reasons beyond Eric Dolphy's continuing iconic stature. First off is its amazing diversity, a batch of material ranging from formative, definitive free-bop ensemble performances to free duets with then—emerging bass giant Richard Davis. Actually, many of these musicians, including Bobby Hutcherson, Woody Shaw and Sonny Simmons, ...
Circle of Willis: Circle of Willis
by Michael Davis
Bill Barrett has never been your average harmonicist about town. By the end of the '90s, he'd released albums on 9Winds ( Backbone ) and, with the group Brother Weasel, SST ( Swingin' N Groovin' ), applying his chromatic harmonica to create an agreeable jazz-blues fusion sound. Since then, his creativity has increased exponentially. ...
