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Mark Helias: Atomic Clock
by Donald Elfman
Mark Helias--his big steady bass and organic, his compositions ever-changing--continues to set the standard for making music that bears shape and direction but also celebrates the freedom to improvise openly and... er... loosely. For ten years he and his powerful trio have refined and broadened the scope of this music so by now the players share ...
Selwyn Lissack
by A. Henkin
The discographies of jazz are filled with obscure artists, role players to the superstars that become legendary. Some are mysterious because of early deaths, others because of careers ended prematurely. But there are a few who transcend this anonymity. South African drummer Selwyn Lissack, whose playing was limited to a decade and who participated in only ...
Bud Powell: In Europe
by Ken Dryden
Bud Powell In Europe: Paris 1959-Copenhagen 1962 Efor Films 2006 European television seems to have been more diligent than American networks about presenting and preserving jazz broadcasts from the late '50s and early '60s, as evidenced by this DVD compiling three separate performances by Bud Powell. On the ...
Anthony Braxton & Fred Frith: Duo (Victoriaville)
by Kurt Gottschalk
Anthony Braxton and Fred Frith each have about as close a relationship to the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville as just about any non-Canadians. The first release on Victo, the label run by the producers of the annual Canadian festival, was a guitar duo with Frith and Rene Lussier; the second was a duet ...
Freddy Cole: Because of You: Freddy Cole Sings Tony Bennett
by Andrew Rowan
Confession, they say, is good for the soul. So this reviewer must confess to only a recent realization of Freddy Cole's extraordinary talent. Simply put, he knows how to do it; this tribute to another singer who gets it--Tony Bennett--is touching. Cole's relaxed, bluesy approach, enhanced by those cracks in his voice, is ...
Jam Session Vol. 17 + Jam Session Vol. 18
by Ken Dryden
Studio jam sessions are still alive and well, though it sometimes takes a while for them to be issued due to economic reasons. But Steeplechase producer Nils Winther's interest in documenting spontaneous meetings of talented musicians deserves praise, demanding single takes and no rehearsals to keep the music fresh and the players on their toes. In ...
Jazz ABZ and Jazz
by Joel Roberts
Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits Wynton Marsalis and Paul Rogers (illustrator) Hardcover; 76 pages ISBN: 0763621358 Candlewick 2005 Getting kids interested in jazz can be a challenge in the age of Britney Spears and “High School Musical," but it's vital if ...
Golda Solomon: Word Riffs
by Suzanne Lorge
Golda Solomon mines language the way an instrumentalist mines a chart. The poet uses speech-song to explore words as percussive and melodic entities; jazz as a cultural force is the topic of her discourse. Word Riffs is an extension of her work as the founder of the Po'Jazz Series, presented monthly at Cornelia Street Café. Po'Jazz--the ...
William Gagliardi Quintet: Memories of Tomorrow
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Saxophonist William Gagliardi writes songs with a free jazz posture and a hard bop conscience, a duality which sometimes leads to a kind of psychic split at the middle of a tune. There are various examples of this on Gagliardi's quintet release Memories of Tomorrow. The discourse and tonality between Gagliardi's tenor and John Carlson's trumpet ...
Brian Bromberg: Wood II
by Ernest Barteldes
On Wood II, bassist Brian Bromberg, instead of showcasing new material, prefers to give his take on songs by a different range of composers, some of whom, like Paul McCartney and Kansas, are not directly associated with jazz. He opens with a classic Duke Ellington number, “Caravan, showing incredible speed during certain moments and also giving ...
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