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Misha Mengelberg: More than Instant Composition
by Clifford Allen
If one takes a swath of the most influential and valuable jazz composers and bandleaders of the last 50 years, one gets one (or both) of two things: a handful of pianists and more questions and inconsistencies than clear lineage. However, just as Steve Lacy found in both Monk's music and free jazz “a door to ...
Four In One
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Hypochristmutreefuzz; Reef; Kneebus; Die Berge Schuetzen Die Heimat; Four In One; Monk's Mood; Criss Cross; Blues After Piet; Kwela P'Kwana; We're Going Out For Italian; Poor Wheel.
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
Misha Mengelberg Quartet: Four In One
by Mark Corroto
Most outings between drummer Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg leave listeners wondering just when the proverbial 'kitchen sink' will be tossed-in. Together, the pair are anything but conservative in their approach to music. Beginning with Eric Dolphy's Last Date in 1964 and continuing for the next four decades, they have carried the Dutch jazz scene ...
Solo
Label: Buzz Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Boodschappenlijst; Loekoek; Richard Wagner Gewidmet: Reef; Knebus; Salz; Ik Heb Een Turquoise Muts; Wok Afhaal; Bill Evans En Dan; Broezimann.
Misha Mengelberg: Solo
by Mark Corroto
The intimacy of jazz has always been its most powerful draw. The listener, somewhat of a voyeur to the musician’s inner soul, is positioned either at a live concert, or in the case of a quality recording, at a comfortable (or uncomfortable) distance. Here the listener catches the creative act at its fountainhead. Misha Mengelberg’s music ...
Misha Mengelberg: Two Days in Chicago
by Robert Spencer
Like Jubilee Varia (hatOLOGY 528), this 2CD-set illustrates the dangerous, death-defying, life-enhancing pianistic and compositional talents of Misha Mengelberg, the world's challenging Dutch leader of these ever-memorable Two Days in Chicago. Also like Jubilee Varia, this disc features some of the foremost improvisers on the scene today, all stoked to new heights by the combustible talents ...
