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Purple Violets, Contours and Dance With Death
by Brandt Reiter
Sam Rivers Purple Violets Stunt 2005 I've frequently called Sam Rivers the most criminally undervalued giant in jazz. But it's getting harder to make that claim: this year the maverick 81-year-old sax legend is up for the Jazz Journalists Association's Lifetime Achievement award, and recently everyone from brilliant young pianist ...
Verve's Free America Series, Part 3-3
by Derek Taylor
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Archie Shepp Black Gipsy Verve/Free America 2005 Archie Shepp's Black Gipsy points to an ongoing preference on the part of the saxophonist for larger ensembles as the 60s ground to a close. Fronting a nonet of both influential and unexpected ...
Nine Winds: Face in the Mirror and Fancy Meeting You Here
by James Taylor
Vincent Golia has quietly built a powerhouse indie jazz label at Nine Winds. Since its establishment in 1977, the label has documented jazz's unappreciated West Coast, releasing albums from Nels Cline, Kim Richmond, Tony Malaby, George Lewis, Wadada Leo Smith and the multi-instrumentalist Golia. One of Nine Winds' strongest forces right now is pianist/composer ...
Verve's Free America Series, Part 2-3
by Derek Taylor
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Anthony Braxton Saxophone Improvisations Series F Verve/Free America 2005 One week after his first America session Anthony Braxton ventured back to Studio Decca in Paris. The fruits of that visit took shape as a follow-up to his seminal For Alto released by ...
Hot Front Lines: New LPRs
by David Rickert
Al Cohn The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bob Brookmeyer 1956 Both Cohn and Brookmeyer spent time in Woody Herman's band, honing their arranging skills before becoming key members of the cool jazz establishment. Thus one can expect from this 1956 meeting a selection of perfectly crafted, gently swinging numbers delivered with the ...
Marsalis Music: Bluestate and J
by Mark F. Turner
The fledgling Marsalis Music Label celebrates another anniversary with sophomore releases by two of its most exciting young artists: Bluestate by guitarist Doug Wamble and Jibaro by saxophonist Miguel Zenon. Their debuts recordings were well received by the jazz community by delivering music filled with diversity and fresh outlooks. One of the key freedoms allowed by ...
Delmark Records: The Chicago Luzern Exchange and SavoirFaire
by Mark F. Turner
The Delmark record label has a rich history of providing diverse jazz music for many years with a roster of names such as Bobby Broom, Rob Mazurek, Anthony Braxton, and Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls. These two new releases are added to that extensive lineup providing an informal study in contrasts of sound and music. The Chicago ...
Satoki Fujii and Natsuki Tamura
by Kurt Gottschalk
Satoko Fujii - along with William Parker and Barry Guy - is one of the few pushing the big band into the future and for her part four times over with standing orchestras in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and New York. In addition, she works in duo with Tatsuya Yoshida, Paul Bley and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki ...
Rich Perry & Harold Danko: East of the Sun & Trilix
by Donald Elfman
Rich Perry East of the Sun and west of 2nd Avenue SteepleChase Records 2005 Rich Perry is that rarest of tenor saxophonists--a complete musician with an understanding of space and timing, a palpable sense of color and humor and absolutely no need to showboat or compromise. Whether he's a featured soloist in ...
Carnival & Strange Fruit
by Ken Franckling
The New Orleans trumpet lineage keeps getting longer and in some ways, stronger. What started with Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong has in more recent decades brought us the likes of Wendell Brunious, Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Leon “Kid Chocolate Brown and Irvin Mayfield. Los Hombres Calientes Carnival Basin Street Records
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