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The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings; The Traveller
by Jeff Stockton
Sonny Simmons The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings ESP-Disk 2005 Clifford Allen's informative and revealing interview with Sonny Simmons, included with ESP's two-disc reissue of Simmons' first efforts as a leader (Staying on the Watch and Music From the Spheres) clears up much of what happened to the master alto ...
Van Gogh By Numbers; One Step Closer
by Ken Dryden
The vibraphone is in good hands with two veterans and a rising player featured on a pair of small group sessions. Joe Locke & Christos Rafalides Van Gogh By Numbers Wire Walker Records 2006 The pairing of vibes and marimba is not unprecedented, but this meeting ...
Quartier Du Faisan; Flamingos
by Ty Cumbie
Some music frustrates stylistic pigeonholing. Max Nagl's is not that kind, but just the opposite, flitting from style to style with such facility and straight-faced fidelity that, in the end, it almost eludes categorization by simultaneously hugging several categories nearly to death. A steady gaze, however, makes no error: this is jazz. One ...
The Distance Runner; World Sonic
by Abe Pollack
Dave Liebman The Distance Runner Hatology 2005 The Distance Runner is a record of expectations, or rather lack thereof. If you're familiar with Liebman's approach to composition and improvisation, you would think that 55 minutes of saxophone solos would sound like a re-recording of late-Coltrane works mixed with early 21st ...
Whispers, Grins, Bloodloss & Handshakes; Pandemonium; Phenomena of Interference
by Celeste Sunderland
Pianos, horns, strings, drums, wind their way around the human voice on three recently released records where words are not sung, but spoken. A vessel for the most direct form of communication in this country, the English language is delivered in so many ways. David Greenberger Whispers, Grins, Bloodloss & Handshakes Meester-Pel ...
Mario Pavone: Deez To Blues
by Matthew Miller
Throughout his forty-year career as a professional musician and on seventeen recordings under his leadership, bassist Mario Pavone has shown himself to be a musical maverick whose only concern is pushing himself and his contemporaries. On Deez To Blues, a sextet featuring acerbic trumpeter Steven Bernstein, violinist Charles Burnham and the consummate reed/tuba doubler Howard Johnson, ...
Bobo Stenson/Anders Jormin/Paul Motian: Goodbye
by Terrell Kent Holmes
The title of this release has a type of finality to it, especially considering the somberness of the tunes therein. This is meticulously crafted jazz, atmospheric and full of spare landscapes. Pianist Bobo Stenson, bassist Anders Jormin and the wonderfully restless drummer Paul Motian play with imagination and economy, Stenson with a facility and tenderness that ...
Sidney Bechet: Mosaic Select
by Ken Dryden
Sidney Bechet was one of the first jazz virtuosos, dominating nearly every recording session in which he took part. Though his Blue Note and RCA Victor recordings are better known due to frequent reissues, there is a lot of rare, valuable material here. This limited-edition compilation collects many of his recordings (plus fourteen previously unissued selections) ...
Ras Deshen: Ras Deshen: From Ethiopian Music to Contemporary Jazz
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Given the considerable number of African Jews living in Ethiopia, it makes perfect cultural sense for Israeli pianist Yitzhak Yedid to team up with Ethiopian sax man and vocalist Abatte Barihun to explore the music of Ethiopia on Ras Deshen, a work which mines the common musical ground shared by their countries. Yedid and Abatte performed ...
Gerald Wilson Orchestra: In My Time
by Marcia Hillman
The Gerald Wilson Orchestra comes out swinging on this CD, recorded in New York with an all-star cast. From the opening “Sax Chase, Wilson and orchestra wend their way through eight Wilson originals and reworkings of two standards, Miles Davis' “So What and Cole Porter's “Love For Sale. The octogenerian leader pays no ...
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