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Throw Down Your Hammer And Sing
By Nate Wooley
Label: Porter Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Tacones Altos; Sans Aluminumius; Souther Ends Of The Earth; Saint
Mary; Anywhere Anyplace At All.
Transit: Quadrologues & Nate Wooley: The Seven Storey Mountain
by Clifford Allen
The work of trumpeter Nate Wooley falls into a number of camps: free improvisation, experimental noise or restructuralist post-bop. It would be easy to lump him in with a young trumpeters/ extended techniques setting but Wooley is decidedly an individual. And while brass players tend to elicit an expected bravura, Wooley is very much at home ...
Clean Feed Records: Eat the Plate
by Mark Corroto
Clean Feed records, founded in 2001, has been the most prolific and adventurous label for jazz this new century. Based in Lisbon, Portugal their offerings have included many of jazz's old guard including reed players Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Charles Gayle, Vinny Golia and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters Dennis Gonzalez and Herb Robertson, along with current ...
Harris Eisenstadt: From Mbalax to Canada Day
by Clifford Allen
Over the past decade, drummer, bandleader and composer Harris Eisenstadt has been a force in improvised music, active in both Los Angeles and New York (where he now resides). It's a testament to his creativity and energy that his ensembles have run the gamut from free-bop in the vein of post-Blue Note small groups, to orchestral ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day
by Clifford Allen
Drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt has, at age 33, a rather lengthy discography and one that's incredibly diverse for a drummer who could have stuck to cutting teeth as an able sideman in contemporary improvisation. As a leader, his story is even more expansive, running the gamut from Senegalese Mbalax to free-bop. Canada Day is a ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day
by Troy Collins
A consummate example of the traveling musician, Canadian-born composer/percussionist Harris Eisenstadt's journeys have taken him from a long-term residency on the West Coast (with frequent trips to Chicago) to multiple trips abroad to study drumming in West Africa before relocating to New York. The majority of Eisenstadt's releases have been documents of singular projects; ad-hoc ensembles ...
The Fonda/Stevens Group: Memphis
by Troy Collins
The 11th album of their storied 18 year career, Memphis is only the fourth studio recording of the venerable Fonda/Stevens Group, making this release a delightful surprise. Co-led by bassist Joe Fonda and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, the veteran quartet is rounded out by trumpeter Herb Robertson and drummer Harvey Sorgen. Boasting a collective resume that ...
Bill Dixon: In Medias Res
by Clifford Allen
Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon is one of those rare figures in creative music who was both there as it took its initial steps and currently remains at the forefront of contemporary improvisation. In the last two years, he has directed or co-led orchestral configurations and recorded and performed with hand-picked small groups of international renown. ...
Four on Clean Feed: Darren Johnston, Luis Lopes, Daniel Levin, Avram Fefer
by Clifford Allen
Darren Johnston The Edge of the Forest Clean Feed 2009 Luis Lopes/Adam Lane/Igal Foni What Is When Clean Feed 2009 Daniel Levin Quartet Live at Roulette Clean Feed ...
