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Sherrie Maricle: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center and What the World Needs Now
by Ken Dryden
Since co-founding The DIVA Jazz Orchestra with Stanley Kay (who served as manager/creative director until ceding the spot to trumpeter Jami Dauber) in 1992, Dr. Sherrie Maricle has consistently led one of the most swinging big bands. Over the years, the drummer has recruited many of the top female jazz instrumentalists in the US, with a ...
Anthony Braxton: Beyond Quantum/Performance (Quartet) 1979/12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007/Trio (Victoriaville) 2007/Solo Willisau
by Jeff Stockton
Anthony Braxton/Milford Graves/William Parker Beyond Quantum Tzadik 2008 Anthony Braxton Performance (Quartet) 1979 Hatology 2007 Anthony Braxton 12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007 Victo 2008 Anthony Braxton ...
David Haney / Andrew Cyrille: Clandestine and Conspiracy A Go Go
by John Sharpe
Perhaps because the piano can be a percussive instrument, piano/drum duets don't have a huge list of practitioners, with the honorable exception of Cecil Taylor. There's a Taylor link on these two recordings by Washington-based pianist David Haney and master drummer Andrew Cyrille, who had a 10-year tenure with Taylor from 1965. Haney is a percussive ...
Mark O'Leary: Two Avant-Fusion Guitar Trios
by Eyal Hareuveni
The prolific Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary likes to position himself in challenging musical outfits, usually trios, that discourage facile characterizations and expectations. The two trios featured on Ellipses and Signs highlight his avant-fusion approach. O'Leary says he's influenced by diverse sources ranging from avant-garde modern composers like Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis to forward thinking ...
Feel the Vibes: Neon, Trio Viriditas and The Wee Trio
by Robert Iannapollo
A recently-spotted chat group thread queried, “Is the trombone dead?" A large number of responses set the questioner straight but one response was something like, “No. But the vibes and tuba are." This answer would surprise such active veterans as Gary Burton, Khan Jamal, Bobby Hutcherson and Karl Berger, all of whom are still producing vital ...
Fripp & Eno: No Pussyfooting / Evening Star
by John Kelman
Few artists think they're doing something momentous, something that can change the landscape of music. Most just follow their instincts, follow their ears, do what they do, and sometimes the result goes far beyond any expectations, personal or otherwise. When King Crimson co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp brought his pedal board to Roxy Music keyboardist Brian ...
Steve Swallow: Swallow Songs & Dedicated to Steve
by Fred Bouchard
Mellow, majestic, mischievous--smooth mnemonics come to mind when listening (or even thinking) about bassist Steve Swallow's music. The estimable (nay, venerable) progenitor of jazz electric bass (or is it Monk Montgomery?) has more basslines up his sleeve than Svengali had pigeons, and his sinuous sleight-of-hand with chord progressions dazzles with its deceptive "ease" of ...
Hugh Davies on Another Timbre
by John Eyles
Another Timbre label proprietor, Simon Reynell, observed in early 2008 that as regarded future CD releases of music by the late Hugh Davies, he would just pick out the tribute disc. And rather than simply issue old recordings of Davies' music, he decided to do something more contemporary. So on For Hugh Davies, three ...
Miya Masaoka: Unsquare & Koto Accordion
by Kurt Gottschalk
Maybe MondayUnsquareIntakt 2008 There are only a handful of koto players in the free improv world, but among them Miya Masaoka has set herself apart. Her qualities include a strong compositional sense, even when creating in the moment. It's something she shares with guitarist Fred Frith and saxophonist ...
Rudy Van Gelder Editions: Red Garland, Horace Silver, Freddie Redd
by Tom Greenland
For almost a decade, the protean recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder has been remastering his analog masters into 24-bit digital format, affording fans an enhanced audio experience and/or a chance to rediscover previously hard-to-find or overlooked classics. Albums by three pianists--Red Garland's 1957 Soul Junction, Horace Silver's 1958 Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet and ...
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