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ROPE: Fabrizio Puglisi / Stefano Senni / Zeno De Rossi: Saints And Sinners
by Mark Corroto
All jazz trios are charged with the command to “make it new," and very few accomplish that directive. Some impersonate the giants of jazz, while others play a parody--massacring styles in the name of modernizing the sound. Neither is the case for the trio known as ROPE. Pianist Fabrizio Puglisi, bassist Stefano Senni, and drummer Zeno ...
Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist's Life
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist's Life Mark Miller Soft cover; 224 pages ISBN: 978-1-55128-146-0 The Mercury Press 2009 Although he is considerably better known and respected today than he was in his lifetime, pianist Herbie Nichols and his spectacularly original music remains relatively obscure. This is one ...
Ulrich Gumpert / Gunter Baby Sommer: Das Donnernde Leben
by Mark Corroto
Collaborations between pianists and drummers often evolve around a unique chemistry creating interesting works of art. Such is the case with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink, Matthew Ship and Guillermo E. Brown, and Louis Moholo-Moholo and Marilyn Crispell. There's also Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley, Paul Lovens, Jackson Krall or Max Roach). Add pianist Ulrich Gumpert ...
Han Bennink Trio: Parken
by David McLean
Han Bennink Trio Parken Ilk Music 2009 One of the most iconic players from the European free-music scene, Han Bennink's 50 plus year career has seen the Dutch master drummer traverse through a multitude of musical settings. Bennink's journey has embraced revolutionary, avant-jazz recordings such as saxophonist Peter ...
Talking Cows: Dairy Tales
by Bruce Lindsay
When a jazz ensemble calls itself Talking Cows, the temptation to make comments about its moo-sic or its horn section is almost too great. But the temptation should be resisted, because this particular group brings much more to the contemporary jazz scene than an opportunity for cheap puns. This Dutch quartet's second CD--the follow-up to Bovinity ...
Han Bennink: Monk Volume One
by Mark Corroto
Pity the straight man that has to play alongside the comedic drummer Han Bennink. In his 50+ years of music making, no gesture, tap, thump, or strike has gone unnoticed. And while he has covered the music of Thelonious Monk before, never has Monk, as interpreted by Bennink, sounded better.On paper this recording, a ...
Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands (Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad and the Peter Brotzmann Tentet) just to name a few. He has taken the drums to new creative ...
Circus
Label: ICP
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Purple (Patrucco/Bennink) - 2:53; 2. Super Market/Su su ven a nan (Patrucco/Honsinger/Mengelberg/Bennink/Baars) - 9:36; 3. Blue Fish (Patrucco/Honsinger/Baars/Bennink) - 5:48; 4. Breathing White (Patrucco/Baars) - 3:44; 5. Echo (Patrucco/Honsinger/Baars/Bennink) - 4:19; 6. Spinazie/Trata Birata (Patrucco/Mengelberg) - 2:51; 7. Desiderio (Patrucco/Honsinger/Baars) - 5:48; 8. Toddling (Patrucco/Honsinger/Mengelberg) - 6:03; 9. In the Middle of Nowhere (Patrucco/Honsinger/Mengelberg/Baars) - 5:35.
