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Books: Out of the Vinyl Deeps
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music by Nona Willis Aronowitz The career of Ellen Willis as a rock music critic was comparatively brief, spanning the late 1960's to the early 1970's, but during that time she wrote some of the most insightful and thought provoking essays on rock and roll to date. ...
James "Blood" Ulmer - Live at the Bayerischer Hof (In+out 1994, 2011)
Guitarist James “Blood" Ulmer is one of the most iconoclastic musicians on the modern scene. Equally at home with free-jazz, blues and R&B, Ulmer is at his best when he combines all of the musical aspects of his personality as he does on this excellent live album. Dubbing this band the “Blues Experience" you can tell ...
Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord - Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup, 2011)
Hot Cup Records can always be counted on to build a refreshingly post-modern view of jazz, whether it is the ironic beauty of Mostly Other People Do the Killing to the country/jazz experiment Pretend It's the End of the World. Irony and irreverence are the key to their aesthetic, but never at the expense of the ...
Helen Sung - (Re)Conception (Steeplechase, 2011)
Pianist and composer Helen Sung is one of the new vanguard of young musicians re-making the mainstream jazz firmament in her own way by re- interpreting standards and adding her own original repertoire to the mix. On this album, she performs in a trio setting, accompanied by the extraordinary rhythm section of Peter Washington on bass ...
Muhal Richard Abrams - Sounddance (Pi Recordings, 2011)
Honored as a jazz master by generations of musicians, and co-founder of the influential AACM, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams met two distinguished yet completely unique colleagues for an improvised performance where they were truly walking the high-wire without a net, performing the improvisations live. The first disc is with George Lewis, trombonist and laptop experimenter. It ...
Capsule Reviews - Tommy Smith, Chase Baird
Tommy Smith—Karma (Spartacus, 2011) Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith is much in demand as a soloist (check his extraordinary playing on Arild Andersen's Live at Belleville) and as a well regarded educator. Smith's Karma (no relation to Pharoah Sanders' free-jazz masterwork of the same name) works well, as the band with Smith: Steve Hamilton on piano, synth ...
Christine Jensen - Treelines (Justin Time Records, 2011)
Composer and arranger Christine Jensen (Jazz Session interview) has assembled an eighteen musician big band to realize her musical ideas on this well done large ensemble album. The music is deeply textured and exists in a multi-layered state emphasizing certain characters in the music especially trumpeter Ingrid Jensen while keeping the music focused on the ensemble ...
Louie Belogenis Trio - Tiresias (Porter Records, 2011)
The deep-seated and haunting nature of the music links this album to Albert Ayler's free-jazz masterpiece Spiritual Unity, not the least because both sessions share the same drummer, the great free percussionist Sunny Murray. Louie Belogenis' sandpaper raw saxophone tone and sparse use of swirls and slurs make him a natural heir to Ayler, but it ...
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic - Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform, 2011)
Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith has been on a wonderful creative roll of late, playing everything from post-Miles fusion to fragile acoustic projects. On this two compact disc set, he draws from all of that experience and imbues it with his deep spirituality and unique approach to music to develop a very successful project. The ...
Capsule Reviews: Billy Hart, Albert Ayler, JD Allen
Billy Hart—Sixty Eight (Steeplechase, 2011) Drummer Billy Hart leads a fine group consisting of Jason Palmer on trumpet, Logan Richardson on alto saxophone, Michael Pinto on vibraphone, Dan Tepfer on piano and Chris Tordini on bass. They play fine mix of adventurous mid-60's centered hard bop and thoughtful ballads. The focus on ensemble play, with fine ...
