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Anthony Braxton: Charlie Parker Project & Shadow Company
by Ty Cumbie
Bespectacled, tweedy, bristling with intelligence, one could easily mistake him for a professor from some obscure, brainy university (which would be correct), of science or mathematics or philosophy (actually music, though he has an impressive command of those other fields). Anthony Braxton, the musician, is renowned primarily for three traits: fearless experimentation, mountainous technique and a ...
Ich Bin Filip Augustson; Full Circle; Live at the Glenn Miller Caf
by AAJ Staff
Long gone are the days of American soil's superiority in jazz. With Scandinavia's prominence (many American and native musicians call such epicenters as Stockholm and Copenhagen home), a new crop of non-American “young lions is reason for celebration. Filip Augustson Ich Bin Filip Augustson Moserobie To call the young Swedish ...
Hope, Future and Destiny; Nod
by Florence Wetzel
Goddesses walk among us; witness these new releases by two formidable female talents, Hope, Future and Destiny by Nicole Mitchell and the Black Earth Ensemble and Nod by the Jessica Jones Quartet. Nicole Mitchell Hope, Future and Destiny Dreamtime Mitchell's CD originates from her multi-arts community play that featured a ...
Joe Giardullo: Weather, No Work Today & Falling Water
by Clifford Allen
Joe Giardullo Weather Not Two Recorded during Giardullo's tenure as an artist-in-residence at Warsaw's Contemporary Arts Center, Weather features Giardullo solo at Krakow's Klub Re. It is in many ways difficult to get past the precedents for a solo soprano recording; Steve Lacy's Monk-with-trills and Evan Parker's breath-defying sound sculptures are an ...
Dances; On Fire Hierseins-Erfahrungen; Emission
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Musical vanguardist and multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel has been under the spell of jazz since the end of WWII. By the end of the '50s, he was already a full-fledged European professional jazz musician and by the '60s, he had made lasting inroads into the North American jazz scene. Operating out of Germany and the USA, after ...
James Moody & Moody And The Brass Figures
by Andrew Rowan
What a perfect name: James Moody. His playing has that fire and fluency honed in the bebop and post-bop eras, but there is also a haunting sound that tells the listener that his music is about feeling as much as it is about musical notation. James Moody James Moody Argo-Verve ...
Alaskan Cool: Jazz from The Last Frontier
by Mark Sabbatini
Contrary to popular myth, Alaskans don't live in igloos, Eskimos buy refrigerators even from lousy salesmen and Jewel isn't the state's best musician. It's tough finding a jazz musician from The Last Frontier with the notoriety of the 31-year- old singer/songwriter who left her “home town" of Homer 15 years ago. But look hard ...
SF Jazz Collective & Momentum
by Terrell Kent Holmes
SF Jazz Collective SF Jazz Collective Nonesuch 2005 Ever since saxman Joshua Redman chose jazz over law, he has been one of the most acclaimed, diverse and in-demand performers on the scene. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the SFJazz Collective (SFJC), a stellar ensemble of players whose ...
London Flat, London Sharp, Private Brubeck Remembers and Jazz at the College of the Pacific
by Brian P. Lonergan
Dave Brubeck Quartet London Flat, London Sharp Telarc 2005 There are not many jazz pianists who have actively gigged and recorded for 60 years. Dave Brubeck's clean living has allowed him to continue producing, at nearly 85 years old, such excellent albums as London Flat, London Sharp.
A Nice Idea & Brand New
by Brian P. Lonergan
John Abercrombie and Andy LaVerne A Nice Idea SteepleChase 2005 There are several challenges with having a guitar and piano together in a small combo. One is to keep the music from getting too muddy due to overlapping, sustained chords. Another is to generate a sense of forward motion, without ...
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