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Phil Dwyer: One Take: Volume Two / Let Me Tell You About My Day
by Michael McCaw
One of the most reassuring things there can be concerning any art form is that there are a number of exceptional practitioners. Not everyone can be recognized or revered as much as they deserve, but the fact that there is such a plethora of artists contributing to their medium means a continual evolution and survival. Canadian-based ...
The Thing: Live At Blå / Mats Gustafsson: Catapult
by A. Henkin
Last summer, this reviewer was first exposed to the Scandinavian group The Thing in the best possible way; he was run over by them. The trio, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love (both Norwegian), played a brutal set at the Oslo club Blå as part of that city's Jazz Festival. ...
Skip Heller: Out of Time & Bear Flag
by Rex Butters
Guitarist Skip Heller continues his organ trio odyssey with two new releases, each featuring a different rhythm section and very different programs. Out of Time recorded live at Tritone in Heller's original home of Philadelphia features organist Lucas Brown and drummer John F. Kennedy. The program consists of a collection of old chestnuts chosen to evoke ...
Independent Exposure: Part 1
by Eric J. Iannelli
The DIY ethic has been prevalent in rock music for several decades now, perhaps seeing its most significant explosion during the punk era of the late '70s. It would later give rise to a whole genre unto itself, otherwise known as “indie," or independent, characterized by artists who deliberately aimed to bypass the formal, big-money channels ...
New Offerings From Clean Feed
by Mark Corroto
If you have to pick a label to mark an era in jazz, you might suggest Prestige in the 1950s, Blue Note ('60s), CTI ('70s), Columbia ('80s), and Knitting Factory ('90s) as the spokesmen for those particular decades of jazz. With this new century came an evolution in do-it-yourself musicians and the inevitable revolution into the ...
Herb Robertson: Elaboration & Mark Dresser: Unveil
by Clifford Allen
The lower half of Manhattan is full of as much jazz history as Harlem, South Chicago or Watts, despite the fact that it is currently a bit more “upscale" than it was in the years after the Second World War. During the 1960s, it was a haven for the new movement in jazz, where Eric Dolphy, ...
Jean Claude Jones: New Duets
by Eyal Hareuveni
Since forming his own label, Kadima Collective, Israeli and Jerusalem based bass and electronics player Jean Claude Jones, opted for the duo format. His first two solo discs, recorded in the last two years, when he is in his late fifties, were a series of meetings with like-minded Israeli improvising musicians, including a short document of ...
James Finn: Plaza De Toros & Michael Blake: Right Before Your Very Ears
by Clifford Allen
From Sonny Rollins' stint at the Village Vanguard (famously captured on three Blue Note records) to “Chasin' the Trane, the venerable format of tenor saxophone, bass and drums has produced a staggering amount of innovative and fiery recording situations (Ayler, Sam Rivers, Peter Brötzmann, the list goes on). With all the landmark trappings that the “power ...
Per Henrik Wallin: The Stockholm Tapes, Burning in Stockholm, Mandelstam & Velodromer
by AAJ Staff
The late pianist Per Henrik Wallin's music, though heralded in Europe, is a barely known entity to jazz fans in the US. Wallin passed away in June at 58, but his playing and reputation went well beyond his years--the Swedish pianist was widely considered one of Europe's finest of the last three decades, along with Fred ...
Roswell Rudd & Archie Shepp: Roswell Rudd & Black Gipsy
by AAJ Staff
A phenomenal outpouring of reissued '60s timepieces has come stateside. Available for the first time on CD are seminal recordings by Steve Lacy, Alan Shorter, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Frank Wright, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, and Roswell Rudd from Verve's collectable Free America catalogue. Roswell Rudd Roswell Rudd Verve/Free ...
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