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Sepia Trio: Cleft
by A. Henkin
Cleft's genre comes up as “unclassifiable in iTunes. While this is a little bit of a stretch, the Sepia Trio's mix of disparate energy music traditions, most audibly The Fringe, is impressive. Seth Meicht (sax), Brendan Dougherty (drums, electronics), and a new bassist, the much older Akira Ando, recorded Cleft in Dougherty's adopted home of Germany, ...
Onaje Allan Gumbs: Music, The Rhythm of Life
by AAJ Staff
By Onaje Allan Gumbs This music we call “jazz" has represented the essence of who we are and who we can become. Music has always been the soundtrack to my life; from the time I was three, I could sing all of the lyrics to the old Eddie Fisher song “Oh My Papa" ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: Live At Iridium, New York
by Budd Kopman
If you have heard Jean-Michel Pilc live or on record, you will know that Live At Iridium, New York may bring goosebumps. Together, the tracks represent an excellent splicing job of tunes from sets over three nights in October 2004 to make up what sounds like one set. The record will almost certainly make you say, ...
Matt Shulman: So It Goes
by Celeste Sunderland
Take a trumpet trio that could have waltzed through the revolving doors of a '50s supper club, add sparse vocals, multiphonics, and lightly perceptible electronics, and you have a jazz group for the 21st Century. Trumpet player Matt Shulman is among a group of young jazz composers who are unafraid to step beyond traditional constraints, still ...
Sedric Choukroun: In the Parlor
by Tom Greenland
Sedric Choukroun is one of New York's hidden treasures, a soulful man who speaks through his horn with gentle authority. An immigrant of French-Algerian heritage, Choukroun has been a central figure at Marjorie Eliot's intimate Parlor Entertainment, where an extended “family" gathers in her Harlem apartment every Sunday to enjoy a uniquely hospitable concert environment.
Jim Marshall: Jazz
by Joel Roberts
Jim Marshall: Jazz Photographs by Jim Marshall; Introduction by Phil Elwood Chronicle Books ISBN: 0811843548 144 pages; 115 B/W photos 2005 Though he's known mostly for his iconic photographs of '60s rock royalty like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Beatles, Jim Marshall was a jazz ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years: 1971-1979
by Jeff Stockton
In 1971, four years after Coltrane's death, the hole that was left in jazz was intimidating. Ayler, Sanders, Taylor, et al. had pushed free music as loud and as far out as they could, and once dissonance and tumult had made themselves at home, the next generation responded not with more noise, but with silence. Trumpeter ...
Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes
by Greg Thomas
The most exhilarating live date by Marsalis since his mammoth seven-CD release Live at the Village Vanguard in 1999, Live at the House of Tribes is a brilliant blowing session captured in 2002 at a tiny club in New York's Lower East Side that he frequents with a small group every winter. The ...
Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe
by Clifford Allen
Mike Heffley Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz Yale University Press ISBN: 0300106939 400 pages 2005 While improvised music in Europe has certainly had a storied history, despite being decidedly more “condensed" temporally than its American counterpart, this history is something ...
Eric Dolphy: Last Date
by A. Henkin
Eric Dolphy Last DateInterakt 2005 Though jazz has its fair share of premature deaths, few were as tragic as that of Eric Dolphy, both because it was avoidable and that it cut off a monumental player in his prime. The DVD issue of Last Date, a loving ...
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