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Gebhard Ullmann
by Kurt Gottschalk
Gebhard Ullmann is a study in counterpoint. He is a composer of scores fluctuating from trio to tentet, building metered music without rhythm sections and has long called both New York and Berlin his homes, finding inspiration in each city. He has used rock listening and classical training as an inspiration for his jazz work, and ...
Jeff Marx: Treading Air, Breathing Fire
by Celeste Sunderland
An album becomes an extraordinary work when it features playing that ventures beyond a category of art created simply to tickle the senses. Tenor saxophonist Jeff Marx' second album, Treading Air Breathing Fire , ponders metaphysical relations on an immense scale. Most of the content takes the form of passionate dialogue between the four ...
Allison Miller: 5 am Stroll
by Ken Franckling
Allison Miller has been a busy member of the New York jazz scene for the past eight years, touring and/or recording with notable leaders from jazz as well as folk and pop music worlds, including Marty Ehrlich, Kitty Margolis, and Natalie Merchant. After some thirty recordings under her belt as a sidewoman, 5 am ...
Heavy Metal Duo: Work Songs and Other Spirituals
by AAJ Staff
The Heavy Metal Duo's Work Songs and Other Spirituals is the documentation of one of most unique duos working in jazz and perhaps in jazz history. Tubaist Bob Stewart has almost single-handedly expanded and redefined the tuba's role, and trombonist Ray Anderson covers the better documented and more extensive history of his horn with traces of ...
Wallace Roney: Prototype
by Russ Musto
Prototype is Wallace Roney's latest effort to blaze innovative new trails within the musical territory first explored by Miles Davis. The music that Roney and company put forth is simultaneously visceral and creative--revolutionary, but cognizant of popular tastes. The group--Roney's wife Geri Allen on piano, brother Antoine on saxophones, Davis alumnus Adam Holzman on keyboards, Matt ...
Big Satan: Souls Saved Hear
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Exorcising the demons with the fire and brimstone of a revivalist meeting, Souls Saved Hear marks the ferocious return of saxophonist Tim Berne's Big Satan. At just under 48 minutes -- the longest piece just over ten -- it is somewhat diminutive within Berne's catalog. But the taut arrangements distill the power of the performances. Focused ...
Helio Alves: Portrait in Black and White
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Brazilian pianist Helio Alves has put together Portrait in Black and White , a wonderful trio collaboration with bassist Santi Debriano and drummer Matt Wilson, who appeared recently at the Montréal Jazz Festival as part of the Charlie Haden Trio. The opener, “Frenzy," an Alves original, develops slowly within its circular theme, then accelerates ...
Maneri/Maneri/Phillips: Angles of Repose
by Ty Cumbie
Angles of Repose is the brand new release of a 2-year-old recording made at Chapelle Sainte Philomène, an old chapel in the south of France. Mat and dad Joe Maneri brought the veteran bassist Barre Phillips into the fold for these very personal music-making sessions, and ECM saw fit to share the results with us. The ...
João Gilberto: In Tokyo
by Russ Musto
For fans of Brazilian music all over the world, the voice of João Gilberto is as familiar as that of a father or trusted family friend. The vocalist/guitarist's signature soft, hushed delivery redefined the bossa nova style in Brazil in the '50s and initiated its popularity in the U.S. (through his collaborations with Stan Getz) in ...
Various Artists: Yes Indeed! Women Vocalists on United
by Andrew Rowan
This curio is more a snapshot of the jazz-influenced and -inflected popular singing of the time than a reflection of state-of-the-art jazz singing. Too many undistinguished arrangements and corny horn effects push these sides too far to the blatantly commercial side of the ledger. Most recognized among these singers today, of course, is Della ...
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