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Between The Lines Turns Five, Part 2-2
by Budd Kopman
Part 1 | Part 2 I apologize for the delay between parts 1 and 2 of this trek through an incredibly varied body of recordings. Rather than repeat my introductory remarks (seen here ), I will summarize the basic esthetic of the record label known as Between the Lines. Franz Koglmann wants to explore the boundary ...
Pure Jerry: Live From the Archive
by Doug Collette
Jerry Garcia Band Theatre 1839: San Francisco, July 29 & 30, 1977 JerryGarcia.com Jerry Garcia will forever be known primarily as the bespectacled, cheerily voluble, Zen-like figurehead of the Grateful Dead. But just as he established a solo career slowly and surely beginning in the early '70s, as both ...
Steven Bernstein: Evaluating The Diaspora Series
by John Kelman
Trumpeter/composer/bandleader Steven Bernstein may have made his name with groups as far-flung as Sex Mob and the Lounge Lizards, but it is quite possible that his most enduring work, the effort that will be most remembered when people look back at a long and fruitful career, is his series of Diaspora recordings on John Zorn's Tzadik ...
Rob Levit: Uncertain Path & Anatomy of Ecstasy
by David Rickert
Rob Levit Uncertain Path Symbol System Records 2004 Many musicians who explore a wide variety of musical styles are unable to combine them into a coherent whole. Not Rob Levit though, a guitarist who is able to seamlessly blend all sorts of influences from blues to funk to ...
1959: A Great Year in Jazz
by Geoff Barber
My father really enjoys wine. We can go to a restaurant and he will talk to the waiter about wine for what seems like an eternity. The conversation normally revolves around the year a certain wine was fermented. He will settle on a year and enjoy a couple glasses with his meal. For the life of ...
Jimmy Amadie: In a Trio Setting & Live at Red Rocks
by AAJ Staff
By Stephen McGrath Jimmy Amadie In a Trio Setting: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra TP Recordings 2002 Mr. Amadie has accomplished what some might call his “impossible dream." Once a promising pianist, Amadie was struck with severe tendonitis early in his professional career. Not to say Mr. Amadie didn't have ...
Nine Winds Records: The Entire Time & Making Room for Spaces
by Clifford Allen
Begun in 1977 by reedman and composer Vinny Golia as a forum to release projects of Los Angeles and West Coast-based improvisers, Nine Winds has been crucial in bringing to light the talents of a varied pool of musicians. Artists such as guitarist Nels Cline, whose pedigree includes work with Mike Watt (Minutemen) as well as ...
Ken Vandermark: Radiale, Gambit, and Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise
by Jeff Stockton
Ken Vandermark continues to issue recordings at a wildly prolific rate, yet for all the similarities, each one of his projects offers something different. And while charting the genealogy of his collaborative relationships can be like figuring out who is brother to whom on a soap opera, the crucial member of the two trios under consideration ...
Sonore; Ken Vandermark; The Thing
by A. Henkin
Sonore No One Ever Works Alone Okka Disk 2004 When the saxophone trio Sonore played Tonic last month, the moods evoked included a honky-tonk blues bar, a foggy Holmes-ian London complete with murdered prostitute and a pit filled with the screaming damned souls of hell. Their album, ...
John Swana: On Target & New York-Philly Junction
by C. Andrew Hovan
It seems like a lot of up and coming trumpeters these days go for the bop stylings of Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw as their main influence. Far fewer look to players like Art Farmer or Kenny Wheeler for inspiration. That's what has made watching the development of Philadelphia trumpet man John Swana so fascinating over ...
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