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Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias
by Mark F. Turner
Ever the thinker, saxophonist Steve Coleman now delves into the connection between human biology and music with Functional Arrhythmias, perhaps his most accessible release in recent memory. With a vast discography that has covered everything from unadulterated funk in 1988's Sine Die (Pegasus) to advanced concepts in 2011's The Mancy of Sound (Pi), his curiosity and ...
Fundraising Campaign Launched To Support New Documentary On The NY Art Quartet
Alan Roth, filmmaker and director of the new documentary about the New York Art Quartet, has just launched a final fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to complete this feature-length documentary. The film is entitled: The Breath Courses Through Us. Roth explained: “I believe this is one of the more important documentaries on jazz musicians, especially the under-represented ...
Joe Morris: Graffiti In Two Parts
by John Sharpe
One of the main talking points regarding Graffiti In Two Parts, and perhaps the reason this session from 1985 has finally seen the light of day, must be the participation of the erstwhile pianist Lowell Davidson. After studying biochemistry at Harvard University, he moved to New York and played with Ornette Coleman who urged the ESP ...
Jazz Middelheim: Antwerp, Belgium, August 16-19, 2012
by Martin Longley
Jazz Middelheim 2012 Park Den Brandt Antwerp Belgium August 16-19, 2012 The Jazz Middelheim festival is a weekender that hasn't relinquished its fondness for adventure over the last four decades. Nuzzling up against stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations ...
The Giuseppi Logan Kickstarter Project - New 180 Gram Vinyl Album From Legendary Sax Player
The Giuseppi Logan Project delivers a new album from a rising avant-garde jazz player of the sixties who has been lost to the music world for over 30 years. The supporting players are stellar in their own right featuring ace jazz pianist Cooper Moore, bassist Larry Roland, and the unique electric violin of Tracy Silverman. The ...
Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination - Route de Fra Res (2011)
Brooklyn-born to Haitian parents, drummer Andrew Cyrille had gone on to record with Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins and Roland Kirk before beginning a decade-plus stint in Cecil Taylor's band during some of Taylor's most creative periods. Cyrille's legacy only grew further as a leader and co-leader of groups that included the likes of Billy Bang, ...
Albert Ayler: Knocking On The Door of Astral Jazz
by Chris May
Despite everything life threw at saxophonist Albert Ayler--critical incomprehension, paucity of performing opportunities, probable bi-polarity--his music shone with light. At the time of his passing, aged 34, drowned in New York's East River, he was, said some of his friends, in the depths of depression (leading to rumors of suicide, or, more fancifully, of murder). But ...
Steve Dalachinsky: Weaving Poetry with Jazz
by Florence Wetzel
Poet Steve Dalachinsky occupies a unique place in the jazz firmament. Actually, he occupies several places: he writes poetry inspired by jazz, he performs and records with jazz musicians and he has supplied liner notes for numerous artists including multi-intrumentalist Anthony Braxton, drummer Rashied Ali and pianist Matthew Shipp. Dalachinsky is an avid supporter of the ...
William Parker: Conversations
by Steve Dalachinsky
Conversations William Parker, Jacques Bisceglia, Ed Hazell Hardcover; 445 pages Rogueart 2011 Not since drummer Art Taylor's Notes and Tones (Da Capo, 1993)--the book which bassist William Parker says inspired him to undertake this project--has there been a book of interviews so vital, so down to earth and ...
Roswell Rudd: The Musical Magus Turns 75
by Raul d'Gama Rose
"Years ago it would have seemed an impossible dream to get to record with this musical magus, but here we are... and what a thrill!" class="f-right">--Charlie Kohlhase, From liner notes to Eventuality: The Charlie Kohlhase Quintet Plays the Music of Roswell Rudd (Nada, 2001) I see him suddenly as if in a ...
