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Daniel Carter / William Parker / Federico Ughi: The Dream
by Marc Medwin
That's right, Daniel Carter plays piano on this date! It's the first thing you hear as this disc kicks immediately into definite but mature overdrive. It's a blast to hear William Parker, the bassist for Cecil Taylor's much-lauded Feel Trio, free-walking under Carter's percussive attacks, certainly indebted to Taylor but even more pointillistic. Zero Softly is ...
Roy Hargrove: Nothing Serious
by Russ Musto
Despite the nonchalance of its title, Nothing Serious may be Roy Hargrove's best disc yet. The first working band outing by the genre-leaping trumpeter since 1993's Of Kindred Souls features a cohesive quintet with alto saxophonist Justin Robinson, pianist Ronnie Mathews, bassist Dwayne Burno and drummer Willie Jones III, augmented on three selections by special guest ...
Caroline Kraabel / Phil Hargreaves: Where We Were
by Marc Medwin
As part of the London Improvisers Orchestra, American-born and London-based instrumentalist Caroline Kraabel is no stranger to electro-acoustic incorporations of all varieties, but Where We Were takes such concerns to the next level. While the playing is outstanding, it is the world invoked between each utterance that makes the disc one of the most fascinating soundscape ...
Charnett Moffett: Internet
by Ernest Barteldes
Every now and then a bassist emerges as a front man and the instrument takes a whole new personality. Such is the case on Internet, where Charnett Moffett wrote every tune but one, an effects-laden take on The Star Spangled Banner" obviously inspired by Jimi Hendrix. Moffett uses acoustic, electric, fretless and piccolo basses (often more ...
Linda Presgrave: The Journey
by Terrell Kent Holmes
When Linda Presgrave toured with members of the International Women in Jazz ensemble a few years ago, the experience inspired her to explore and highlight works by female jazz musicians. The Journey is the result of that inspiration, a multifaceted work that not only honors the contributions that women have made to the idiom, but also ...
Mark Elf: Liftoff
by Terrell Kent Holmes
John Coltrane's Countdown, like Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, is a brief, emotional and enduring classic. Guitarist Mark Elf makes this tune the heart of Liftoff. Elf, who played last month at Flushing Town Hall with bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Quincy Davis, was an exuberant performer who scatted along with his solos on up-tempo tunes, ...
Sonny Stitt: New York Jazz
by Samuel Chell
"Genius" is a misunderstood, overused term. In music there have been only a few geniuses--visionaries who have tapped into the original, vital stream that we might consider musical consciousness and changed it--Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Armstrong, Parker, Coltrane. Sonny Stitt was not one of the geniuses, nor one of the innovators. Rather, he took the complex language ...
Joe McPhee: Remembrance, Next to You, In Finland, Everything Happens for a Reason
by Robert Iannapollo
Joe McPhee Remembrance Cadence Jazz 2005 Boni, Lazro, McPhee, Tchamitchian Next to You Emouvance 2006 McPhee, Shipp, Duval In Finland CIMP Records 2005 Joe ...
Solo Piano: All That Is Tied, Time Zones, Seventeen Pieces, One
by Donald Elfman
Ran Blake All That Is Tied Tompkins Square 2006 Charles Gayle Time Zones Tompkins Square 2006 Pandelis Karayorgis Seventeen Pieces Leo 2004 Matthew Shipp ...
Ingrid Jensen: At Sea
by Russ Musto
Ingrid Jensen's ArtistShare debut offers a fresh insight into a worldly trumpeter already established as a formidable player in the hard bop idiom. On At Sea she embarks on a journey into the often treacherous territory of post-Miles electro/acoustic jazz (where other trumpeters' individual voices are frequently eclipsed) and proves that she is a truly original ...

