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Weasel Walter: Oculus ex Abyssus and Firestorm
by Clifford Allen
In the nearly fifty years that have passed since saxophonist Ornette Coleman recorded the double quartet Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1960), freedom has become a relatively accepted approach to practicing improvisation and composition. So much so that a group like the Vandermark Five, which has its own history, can record four volumes of Free Jazz Classics (Atavistic, ...
Violin: Costel Nitescu, Jonathan Russell, Skye Steele & Aaron Weinstein
by George Kanzler
Costel Nitescu Forever Swing Grappelli Forever Le Chant du Monde 2007 Jonathan Russell Puttin' On the Ritz Self Published 2008 Skye Steele Late Bloomer Self Published 2008 Aaron Weinstein/John Pizzarelli Blue Too Arbors 2008 As recounted in the notes to Blue Too, the pioneering jazz violinist Stuff Smith once said: “You can ...
Louis Moholo: with the Chris McGregor Trio and Marilyn Crispell
by Clifford Allen
When the Blue Notes--pianist Chris McGregor, drummer Louis Moholo, bassist Johnny Dyani, trumpeter Mongezi Feza and altoist Dudu Pukwana--brought their mixture of bebop and kwela from South Africa to England in 1967, it didn't take long for the quintet to join forces with some of the more adventurous players in London, a mutually beneficial climate that ...
Jazz Goes Globetrotting
by Martin Gladu
Itself a hybrid art form, jazz has a degree of permeability which enables it to reach ethnically and geographically diverse audiences. This is mainly achieved by incorporating elements borrowed from those same “foreign" cultures: think of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's use of Afro Cuban rhythms, the adoption of Brazilian tunes into the standard repertoire in ...
Taylor Ho Bynum: A Trickster Sensibility
by Chris May
Is Taylor Ho Bynum the most extraordinary cornet player to emerge since Louis Armstrong? It's beginning to look that way. With a vast sonic vocabulary, blessed with soaring lyricism, fearlessly forward looking yet with a hotline to gut bucket primitivism, Bynum, still in his early 30s, is already a singular and thrilling artist. Two ...
Trombonopia!: Bill Cantrall, David Gibson & Matt Haviland
by Fred Bouchard
Bill CantrallAxiomUp Swing2008 David GibsonG-RaysNagel Heyer2008 Matt HavilandBeyond Good and EvilConnotation2008 Three trombone-playing leaders here afford themselves plush settings for some pretty ...
Eivind Opsvik: Overseas III; Koptor & This That
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Eivind OpsvikOverseas IIILoyal Label2008 Kevin BrowKoptorFresh Sound-New Talent2008 Jesse StackenThis ThatFresh Sound-New Talent2008 The third release by Eivind Opsvik's Overseas project puts ...
Mark Dresser: The Beautiful Enabler & Point of Contact
by Wilbur MacKenzie
MaugerThe Beautiful EnablerClean Feed2008 Bob and Ellen WellerPoint of ContactCircumvention Music2008 In the few years since his departure from daily life in New York, bassist Mark Dresser's activities have been ...
Paul Motian: Voices and Portrait in Jazz
by Francis Lo Kee
Marc CoplandNew York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: VoicesPirouet2008 Bill EvansPortrait in JazzRiverside-Concord2008 Paul Motian is a catalytic musician. His imaginative playing shapes the sound of a project in a way ...
Rob Mazurek's excellent adventures in Brazil and France
by Mark Corroto
Like bassist Williams Parker or fellow midwesterner, reed player Ken Vandermark, trumpeter and cornetist Rob Mazurek is a hub around which much creative activity revolves. He is a musician, musical organizer and visual artist whose hunger for invention is seemingly limitless. After his early (1990s) foray into bebop, he began to realize the possibilities of modern ...
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