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Jessica Jones Quartet: Word
by Mark Corroto
Jazz has always had its own poetry. Not just the music, but the language. Recall hearing Cab Calloway or Louis Armstrong give an introduction from the bandstand or the cadence of Lester Young and Slim Gaillard's words. Jazz has always had its own idiom. It is poetry, and it is easy enough to understand that poetry ...
Connie Crothers Quartet: Music Is A Place
by Tom Greenland
With Music Is A Place pianist Connie Crothers has created an enduring work, a crystallization and clarification of her musical aesthetic. Featuring longtime colleagues Richard Tabnik (alto) and Roger Mancuso (drums) along with veteran bassist Ratzo Harris, the disc contains a set of originals that explore the interzone between pre- and free composition, a mix of ...
Nod
Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Bird's Word; Little Melonae; Happiness Is; Waynopolis; Love and Persevere; Manhattan; These Foolish Things; Platform Shoes - Apocalypse
Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod
Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1) Bird's Word, 2) Little Melonae, 3) Happiness Is, 4) Waynopolis, 5) Love And Persevere, 6) Manhattan,
7) These Foolish Things, 8) Platform Shoes - Apocalypse
Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod
by Mark Sabbatini
Jessica Jones Quartet Nod New Artists Records 2004 One of the first things apparent about this album is that it doesn't dwell in any particular time zone. Jessica Jones' third quartet album, Nod , opens with an ensemble that sounds deliberately muffled like a 1950s bebop ...
Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod
by Dan McClenaghan
The title of the Jessica Jones Quartet's latest CD, Nod, is “Don" spelled backwards, a reverse tipping of the hat to Don Cherry, the trumpeter who ran with Ornette Coleman back in the early days of free jazz, on several groundbreaking albums of the genre. But here's the rub: the set doesn't have Cherry's sound; if ...
Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod
by John Kelman
Elegantly bridging the gap between free playing and more structured work, tenor saxophonist/pianist Jessica Jones and her quartet deliver a record that bucks convention while, remarkably, remaining somewhat true to it. Influenced as much by the Art Ensemble of Chicago as by Wayne Shorter and Jackie McLean, Nod comfortably traverses a variety of territories, including open-ended ...
