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Marty Ehrlich: News On The Rail
by Joel Roberts
Multi-reedist Marty Ehrlich can always be counted on to make thoughtful, provocative music on the modern-creative end of the jazz spectrum. His last album (The Long View, 2003) featured an extended large-group composition inspired by the work of painter Oliver Jackson. News On The Rail is a somewhat less abstract effort comprising eight new tunes written ...
Michael Musillami Trio: Dachau
by Elliott Simon
In the wake of its strong premiere effort, Beijing (Playscape, 2000), the Michael Musillami Trio continues its globetrotting, turning to Germany for inspiration to produce its sophomore offering, Dachau. While the opening “Dresden and the title piece itself conjure up some of the 20th century's worst horrors, the music is wonderfully uplifting and powerfully creative. Musillami's ...
Toots Thielemans: Do Not Leave Me
by Greg Thomas
This digitally remastered release of Do Not Leave Me is a must hear for collectors and fans alike. Toots Thielemans' sound and approach to jazz improvisation on harmonica strongly appeal to both heart and mind, and this 1987 recording amply shows why. A supple, driving rhythm section featuring pianist Fred Hersch, bassist Marc ...
Tommy Dorsey: The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, The Essential Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey
by Andrew Velez
Tommy Dorsey's efforts paid off. He was intense, combative and relentless in pursuit of the excellence he demanded of his orchestras. As George T. Simon observed in his definitive opus The Big Bands, “... Dorsey's band...must be recognized as the greatest dance band of them all... and capable of “doing more things better than any other ...
November 2005
by AAJ Staff
The Steve Lacy homage at Merkin Hall (Oct. 6th) encompassed poetry, solo horns, unorthodox trios, jazz quintets, live electronics (from David Wessel and Richard Teitelbaum) and even a solo guitar romp from Gary Lucas. It was a brilliant stroke to seat all the performers onstage, effectively making them part of the audience. We were thus afforded ...
Has Katrina Failed to Blow the Wool from over our Eyes? Why I Disagree with the New Jazz Orthodoxy
by AAJ Staff
By Salim Washington The recent disaster in the Gulf region is not only historic, but mythical; it provides a window into our political, economic and social life and also our ideas and fantasies about who and how we are. Not surprisingly, in a nation which is infamously self-congratulatory and completely sentimental about its ...
Fieldwork: Simulated Progress
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
The melodic hooks are not obvious. The harmonies are not lush or comforting. And the rhythms won't be easy to tap along with. But Fieldwork's Simulated Progress is not a free-form blast of notes from three soloists playing near each other. Instead it is a result of careful listening to bring disparate elements together, with room ...
Trio X: Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen: Moods: Playing with the Elements
by Ty Cumbie
I'll bet anyone $50 that the wonderful multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee could play beautifully on an old length of PVC pipe. Any takers? You'd lose. I've seen him do it, and there were at least thirty other witnesses. Neither PVC nor any other sort of plumbing material is listed on this Trio X release, and silver-haired tunes ...
Deborah Weisz Quintet: Grace (for Will)
by Elliott Simon
From its reverent yet fun-loving title cut, Grace (for Will) is a delight. Trombonist Deborah Weisz has assembled a wonderfully eclectic, intermeshing group of musicians to interpret newly composed music motivated by significant events and people in her life. Along with her communicative t-bone, two of New York City's most expressive and versatile musicians, guitarist Sheryl ...
Freddy Cole: This Love of Mine
by Andrew Rowan
Freddy Cole has crafted a marvelous performance with This Love of Mine. He mingles old warhorses, giving them new clothes and offers newer songs, making them sound ageless. Here and there the voice sounds frayed but it only adds to his authority. The afterglow that the session radiates makes it a keeper. The ...
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