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Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousnes /Lord of Lords (Impulse!, 2011)
After the death of her husband and bandleader, the legendary John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane continued to record for Impulse Records for another few years before retreating to her ashram to concentrate on her spiritual concerns. Spirituality has always been the prime concern of her music, and the selections move farther and farther away from jazz into ...
Nick Hempton - The Business (Posi-Tone, 2011)
Nick Hempton is a straight-up mainstream saxophonist and leader who plays in a very confident manner and has a very appealing musical tone. On this album, he is joined by Art Hirahara on piano, Marco Panascia on bass, and Dan Aran on drums. Yotam Silberstein sits in on guitar for a few tracks. The group plays ...
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond (Blue Note, 1963)
During the mid-to-late 1960's, alto saxophonist and composer Jackie McLean cut a number of recordings with a rotating cast of fellow instrumentalists that had one foot squarely in the bebop and hard-bop camp, and and the other foot searching and probing for what lay with the freedom expressed by the likes of Ornette Coleman and Cecil ...
BANN - As You Like (Indie Europe/Zoom, 2011)
This is a collaborative unit consisting of Seamus Blake on tenor saxophone, Oz Noy on guitar, Jay Anderson on bass and Adam Nussbaum on drums. The combine to make an interesting mix of electric and acoustic sounds, clearly based in post-bop jazz, but incorporating elements of fusion and electronic music as well. Opening with the standard ...
Archie Shepp - For Losers/Kwanza (Impulse! 2011)
Archie Shepp started his career as a new thing firebrand, an acolyte of John Coltrane and a fierce advocate for civil rights. By the time these sessions were recorded in the late 60's and early 70's, Shepp had changed—developing a funky style of R&B tinged jazz that wasn't exactly fusion, but definitely showed an awareness of ...
Albert Ayler - Love Cry/the Last Album (Impulse!, 2011)
Impulse! Is celebrating their 50th anniversary with several re-issues including a collection of “2-fers," two albums on one compact disc (or mp3 download.) This is one of the most interesting of the bunch, because it contains two relative rarities by the free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. I'll risk the wrath of the cognoscenti by stating up front ...
Michel Camilo - Mano a Mano (Emarcy, 2011)
Pianist Michel Camilo has developed over the years a remarkably consistent series of musical releases, ranging from solo excursions to trio albums and even large scale classical re-interpretations. This album finds him in the similar format as the excellent Triangulo album from several years ago, returning to the trio format he has been so successful with ...
Thelonious Monk - The Definitive Thelonious Monk on Prestige and Riverside (Concord, 2011)
In 1951, pianist and composer Thelonious Monk was pinched in a bogus arrest that resulted in him losing his Cabaret Card, necessary for performing in New York City clubs. While he scrambled for out of town gigs, Riverside Records stepped up to record Monk in a wide ranging series of contexts, resulting in some of the ...
John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama (Impulse, 1965, 2000)
The sessions that make up this album show a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of saxophonist and composer John Coltrane's music. Four of the six tracks are with the well known “classic quartet" of McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. The other two performances on this album, from a ...
Tarfala Trio - Syzygy (NoBusiness Records, 2011)
Drawing on the legacy of Albert Ayler's extraordinary trio LP Spiritual Unity, The Tarfala Trio, consisting of Mats Gustafsson on saxophones, Barry Guy on bass and Raymond Strid on drums and percussion take the notion of open-ended free jazz and make an impassioned statement that would certainly have made Ayler proud. Opening with “Broken by Fire," ...
