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Fred Anderson: Blue Winter
by Kurt Gottschalk
If it wasn't one already, Fred Anderson's trio with Hamid Drake and William Parker can rightly be considered a supergroup. Anderson was named the first Vision Festival Lifetime Recognition honoree last month, and if such awards were given, Drake and Parker would surely have shared the MVP trophy. While the three have worked together before--notably in ...
JC Hopkins Biggish Band: Underneath a Brooklyn Moon
by Ernest Barteldes
There is a clear retro feel about bandleader, pianist, and songwriter JC Hopkins as he goes on the road in support of his debut with his Biggish Band. Onstage, the group looks and sounds as if we were still in the mid-'40s. The leader dresses in a vintage-looking suit, and even though the band has some ...
Owl Sounds: Cry of the Saw-Whet
by Celeste Sunderland
The monotonous hoot of the tiny Saw-whet owl can only be heard during the mating months of March through May. Thus, Owl Sounds, a revolving group of musicians led by drummer Adam Kriney and bassist Gene Janas, kicked off their new album Cry Of The Saw-Whet properly by releasing it last April. Best to be in ...
London Jazz Four: Take a New Look at the Beatles
by Ernest Barteldes
This Brit quartet made the songs of the Fab Four their own, taking a lot of risk in reinterpreting many timeless classics but also approaching lesser-known Lennon-McCartney tunes (sadly, there are no Harrison compositions on the album). The result is a collection of songs on this disc (originally released in 1967) that sound almost if they ...
Gene Ess: Sandbox and Sanctum
by Tom Greenland
Guitarist Gene Ess' third effort as a leader is a noteworthy departure from his sophomore release (Sunrise Falling, Amp Records 2003) in significant ways: while the earlier work straddled rock and fusion-jazz sensibilities, forefronting groove and melody with looped electronica and digital pastiche, the latest is leaner, cleaner, and full straight-ahead, underscoring the guitarist's impeccable tone ...
Lisbon's Jazz em Agosto
by Kurt Gottschalk
Over the course of nine hot August days in Lisbon, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation managed to present major figures in European free improvisation (Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Paul Rutherford, Conrad Bauer, Irene Schweizer, Pierre Favre), American master instrumentalists (Mark Dresser, Gary Lucas, Erik Friedlander), some of the smartest piano preparers in ...
Albert Mangelsdorff/Arild Andersen/Pierre Favre: Triplicity
by A. Henkin
A musical innovator's sound is unmistakable. For example, listen to any thick slap by Mingus and you know it's him. From the opening moments of Triplicity, there is no question that the trombone is Albert Mangelsdorff's. Mangelsdorff, Germany's most famous musician, participated in many performances under the auspices of the NordDeutscher Rundfunk (German Radio) ...
Dave Allen: Untold Stories
by Donald Elfman
The Fresh Sound label and its owner, Jordi Pujol, continue to mine untapped wealth in New York with the New Talent series, discovering scores of fine musicians playing and writing under the radar, extending the jazz tradition by exploring new colors in which to improvise. The label's latest release is guitarist Dave Allen's debut.Allen--who ...
The Uptown Quintet: Live in New York
by Dan McClenaghan
Let's start off with the meat of the matter: Live in New York is hard bop of the highest order; it drives straight ahead with a crackling energy. If Art Blakey can hear this disc up in jazz heaven, he surely has a big grin on his face.And now a tangent. You've got to ...
Wayne Shorter: Beyond the Sound Barrier
by A. Henkin
During the '60s, Wayne Shorter--as a leader, a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers or Miles Davis' quintet, or a sideman with musicians like Lee Morgan and Grachan Moncur III, was involved with many absolutely perfect studio recordings. It seems very natural, thereforre, that with his current quartet he would be interested in documenting the live ...
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