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The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nels Cline è molto di più che non il chitarrista dei Wilco. La sua lunga avventura musicale è una dimostrazione chiarissima di una classe cristallina e di una grande abilità nel manipolare i generi musicali. Sempre con la stella polare dell'improvvisazione e dell'avanguardia ben salda in mezzo al cielo, a indicare la strada. Ogni sua prova ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Abbey Road Quartet; Spiritual Dimensions & Spirit Catcher
by Marc Medwin
Wadada Leo SmithAbbey Road QuartetTreader2009 Wadada Leo SmithSpiritual DimensionsCuneiform2009 Wadada Leo SmithSpirit CatcherNessa2009 There are few players that continue to be as ...
The Nels Cline Singers - Initiate (2010)
By PicoMultiple personality disorder is considered an affliction among the mentally disabled, but when it comes to the artistry of that unquenchable, multidimensional guitarist Nels Cline, it's the very thing that makes him such an unpredictably compelling musician. Each time I've audited a new record of his, like his celebration of the music of ...
Bushman's Revenge: Jitterbug
by John Kelman
With Jitterbug, Bushman's Revenge asserts that the modern power trio continues to be alive, well, and living in...Norway. You Lost Me At Hello (Rune Grammofon, 2009) was an intense, often-times relentless debut that married Hendrix-ian psychedlia with Ayler-esque abandon. Leaning hard towards the rock side of the jazz-rock equation, the personnel remains the same, but is ...
Guitarist Nels Cline Interviewed at AAJ
While joining alt-country group Wilco in 2004 has done a lot for Nels Cline's profile, it's his own work as a fearless, boundary-averse guitarist that's turned him into what Jazz Times has called “The World's Most Dangerous Guitarist." The guitarist's latest release with Nels Cline Singers, Initiate (Cryptogramophone, 2010), represents a number of first for his ...
Nels Cline: Of Singers and Sound
by Rex Butters
Mimi Melnick's Salons feature some of Los Angeles' best improvising musicians in the most intimate of settings--her home, at the top of a hillside overlooking the San Fernando Valley. This afternoon's trio tunes, and tests sound levels. Bass wizard and longtime UCLA professor Roberto Miranda banters with veteran drummer Bert Karl, while the group's lanky guitarist, ...
The Jazz Session #166: Nels Cline
Guitarist Nels Cline may be best known these days for his work with Wilco, but hed already established himself as an inventive guitarist and composer long before teaming up with the band. On his new CD, Initiate (Cryptogramophone, 2010), the Nels Cline Singers trio explores a variety of rhythmic and harmonic concepts from their very original ...
The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate
by Mark Corroto
The release of the Nels Cline Singers 2-disc Initiate, a two hour-and-fifteen minute behemoth of sound, calls to mind a similar effort of 30 years ago, entitled Sandinista! (Epic, 1980) by the influential punk band turned prophets, The Clash. Like Mick Jones and Joe Strummer's 3-LP project, Cline's vision is too big to be encapsulated into ...
Wilco Guitarist Nels Cline Reconnects with His Jazz Side on New Album
By Tad Hendrickson Nels Cline was been straddling the line between jazz and rock guitar since the late '70s. He got his start working with jazz musicians of the likes of Julius Hemphill, Charlie Haden and Tim Berne, while also doing more rock-oriented stuff with Mike Watt, the Geraldine Fibbers and others, though his major claim ...
Rune Grammofon: Mutation and Reevaluation
by David McLean
Since its inception in 1998, Rune Grammofon has been at the forefront of ground breaking new music, heralding a new unprecedented interest in Scandinavian music. Whereas ECM's focus on the region has largely been based around the folk/traditional music explorations of its most prolific artists, including Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen, and ...
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