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Tanya Kalmanovitch Hut Five: Out Where the Trains Don't Run
by AAJ Staff
How ridiculous that with the deep pool of talented jazz violinists, many best-of lists lump them into the nonspecific “Best String Player category? With Leroy Jenkins, Billy Bang, Mark Feldman, Jenny Scheinman, Carla Kihlstedt, Regina Carter, and most recently Tanya Kalmanovitch (selected as an AAJ-NY “Best New Talent of 2004) -- it would be a challenge ...
Kakalla: The Seeds of Analog Rebellion
by Florence Wetzel
The Seeds of Analog Rebellion is the outstanding new CD by Kakalla, a Massachusetts-based quartet that successfully blends jazz and electronics. And not only: Kakalla's influences include traditional and modern Bulgarian music, Greek rembetika, Albanian folk music, and rock n' roll. Kakalla incorporates these apparently disparate genres into music that's thoroughly original and genuinely exciting.
Triot With John Tchicai: Sudden Happiness
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Reedist John Tchicai is par for the Triot course in Sudden Happiness. Tchicai's work on tenor sax, as well as bass clarinet and vocals, is wholly en suite with this vividly youthful pianoless trio featuring Stefan Pasborg on drums, Nicolai Munch on bass, and Mikko Innanen on alto, soprano, and baritone saxophones. The wise restraint of ...
Burton Greene/Roy Campbell Quartet: Isms Out
by Michael Holman
Free jazz pioneer pianist Burton Greene and trumpeter Roy Campbell front this deeply satisfying CIMP release. The disc has an eclectic feel, striking a nearly ideal balance between free improvisation and more structured jazz, while also drawing on some notable world music influences. Venerable drummer Lou Grassi and bassist Adam Lane round out the quartet and ...
James Finn: Faith in a Seed
by Michael Holman
Somewhat of a late bloomer as a leader, James Finn seems to be making up for lost time. After the release last year of his debut, Opening the Gates (Cadence Jazz), Finn promptly returned to the studio with his trio featuring bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Warren Smith to make this record--and Plaza de Toros, with ...
Tom Christensen: New York School
by Jerry D'Souza
Art begets art. Tom Christensen composed the music for this record based on the work of a group of poets and painters from the fifties and sixties known as the New York School. Frank O'Hara wrote some of his poems inspired by the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Grace Hartigan. In turn, some of ...
Sidney Bechet: Sidney Bechet, 1938-1952
by Joel Roberts
New Orleans jazz legend Sidney Bechet was all the rage in Paris in the late '40s and early '50s, when he recorded the sides included on disc one of this new two-CD package. After some lean years in the US, when he temporarily dropped out of the music business to run a tailor shop in Harlem, ...
Solar: Suns of Cosmic Consciousness
by Elliott Simon
Due to our frame of reference, the path of Mercury's solar orbit appears to retrograde. Zoom out and this backward movement disappears as it becomes clear that Mercury's orbit is closer to the sun than Earth's. Frame of reference and perspective are powerful in coloring our conscious thought. As primarily three dimensional organisms, humans have difficulty ...
Vibrational Therapists: The Radius of the Mind
by Jeff Stockton
Radius of the Mind puts an older lion--reedman Henry P. Warner, who participated in the NYC loft jazz scene in the early to mid-'70s--together with two younger lions, pianist Chris Parker and drummer Chad Anderson, in a trio that takes its inspiration from the striving spirituality of Coltrane and presents fervent solos within the framework of ...
John Zorn: Masada Anniversary Edition, Vol. 4: Masada Recital
by Jeff Stockton
I suppose that since John Zorn plays alto saxophone and improvisation has played a crucial part in his music over the years, by convention he could be described as a “jazz musician. But as a composer he has been anything but conventional, drawing on myriad influences that range from film scores and cartoon themes to Braxton ...
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