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Vinny Golia: One, Three, Two / A Gift for the Unusual / Music For Like Instruments; The Flutes
by Brandt Reiter
Several years ago, the esteemed jazz critic Gary Giddins named Sonny Rollins' This Is What I Do his #1 album of the year. Among its many other merits, Giddins celebrated what he referred to as the record's “LP-ballpark length. “You can actually take it in in one sitting, Giddins wrote, adding, “How many 75-minute epics, excellent ...
Bill Bruford: The Bruford Tapes & Gradually Going Tornado
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2Drummer Bill Bruford may be best-known to some as the meticulous yet ever-grooving drummer behind classic Yes and a number of King Crimson line-ups, but it's been within his own body of work as a leader where he's shown the most growth. More than just a timekeeper with an ability ...
Paul Rutherford: Neuph & Iskra3
by A. Henkin
With the passing of Albert Mangelsdorff, the mantle of elder improvising trombonist has passed to Paul Rutherford. Though relative contemporaries and peers, their approach to the trombone, particularly in a solo context, came from distinct directions, if ultimately sharing certain techniques. Mangelsdorff was always concerned with form and melody; Rutherford is more interested in sound. Two ...
Tierney Sutton: I'm with The Band; Kelley Johnson: Live at Birdland
by Ernest Barteldes
Tierney Sutton I'm with the Band Telarc 2005 “There's something in our live set that doesn't come through on a studio recording," Sutton said during a phone interview about her recently released album I'm With The Band, which was captured live at Birdland last spring, “so we ...
Helen Merrill: Lilac Wine; Andrea Wolper: The Small Hours
by Andrew Velez
Helen Merrill Lilac Wine Sunnyside 2005 Listen carefully to Helen Merrill's phrasing as she revisits “Lilac Wine , a song she first recorded in the '50s. “...I think I'm ready for my love... It's her ever-so-delicate emphasis of “ready which makes the impassioned state she's in so clear. Always at ...
Randy Sandke: Outside In, The Mystic Trumpeter, Trumpet after Dark
by Andrew Velez
Randy Sandke Outside In Evening Star Records 2005 The pleasures of Outside In should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with trumpeter Randy Sandke. Adventurous and forward thinking, he also incorporates the best of traditional jazz. The opener, “Ganjan, is an opportunity for him and bandmates Wycliffe Gordon, Marty ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Town Hall, New York City; Dizzy
by Ernest Barteldes
Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker Town Hall, New York... Uptown Jazz 2005 On a new release on Uptown Records, we hear a long-lost recording made at the Manhattan music hall 60 years ago. The digital transfer is mostly untouched, so as a result some of the crack and hiss ...
Eric Dolphy: Iron Man / Live at the Five Spot, Vol.1; Nathan Davis: The Other Side of Morning
by Clifford Allen
In many ways, the fence-line between avant-garde and mainstream jazz was towed by Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy, two reedmen whose influence crossed as many boundaries as Coltrane and who might be said to be among the true leaders of the front-line soldiers, paving the way for aspects of a sonic revolution that, ubiquitous as it ...
Bill Bruford's Earthworks: All Heaven Broke Loose / Stamping Ground
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2As described in an earlier review of his first round of Earthworks reissues, drummer Bill Bruford considers 1987 as something of a fence constructed in his career—the year where he, at least from the perspective of his own work, stopped being considered a rock drummer, becoming a jazz drummer. Walking ...
Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar: Tells Untold; Assif Tsahar: Fragments
by Jeff Stockton
Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar Tells Untold Hopscotch 2005 Cooper-Moore doesn't limit himself to the usual range of instruments. When he hears a sound in his head, he invents a device to reproduce it, surrounding himself with a mysterious aura, a shamanistic charisma that creates the sense that he's ...
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