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Burnt Sugar; Avram Fefer/Michael Bisio: If You Can
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Eclectically inclusive music can often sound clinical or stilted. But when disparate styles are blended seamlessly, the results can be sublime, supporting the notion that it's all music and genre labels are meaningless. Burnt Sugar If You Can't Dazzle Them with Your Brilliance, then Baffle Them with Your Blisluth Trugroid ...
John Lindberg: Winter Birds
by Francis Lo Kee
John Lindberg is a deep musician. In almost thirty recordings as leader or co-leader, he has assembled some of the most interesting collections of great players you will ever find. Some of his so-called sidemen have included trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, drummers Andrew Cyrille and Ed Thigpen, the recently departed Albert Mangelsdorff, and Steve Lacy. Probably ...
String Trio of New York: Frozen Ropes (with Oliver Lake)
by David Adler
On occasion, the String Trio of New York (guitarist James Emery, bassist John Lindberg, and violinist Rob Thomas) has worked with special guests, including pianist Anthony Davis and vocalist Jay Clayton. Frozen Ropes, with altoist Oliver Lake, is a worthy and concise addition to the group's catalog. These five selections total just over 46 minutes. The ...
Curtis Fuller: Up Jumped Spring; Keep It Simple
by Terrell Kent Holmes
The timeless Curtis Fuller has been a brand name trombone player for about 50 years now and he's never sounded better than he does on his two new releases, Up Jumped Spring and Keep It Simple, which will enhance his standing as one of the bright and enduring stars in the jazz firmament. These discs prove ...
Sheila Jordan; Annie Ross: Celebration; Let Me Sing
by Marcia Hillman
Vocalists Sheila Jordan and Annie Ross, veteran contemporaries separated in age by just over a year, are masters of vocalese with new CDs to prove it. Sheila Jordan Celebration: Live at Triad HighNote 2005 Jordan celebrated her 76th birthday last November by recording a performance at New York's upper West ...
Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis
by Brian P. Lonergan
A horn lover's paradise exists and it is Addis Ababa. At least, the Ethiopian capital was for one night in January 2004, when the American Either/Orchestra, a proponent of “Ethio-jazz, played a rousing concert at the city's third annual music festival. The fortunate result of that night, the two-CD Live in Addis, is ...
Satoko Fujii: Live in Japan 2004
by Kurt Gottschalk
Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii has been one of the most exciting arrangers, as well as a compelling composer and performer, in outside jazz in recent years. Unusually with the company she keeps, improvisation beyond soloing has never been a part of her work. But a recent record shows a new leaning toward improv, to varying results. ...
Milt Jackson: Things are Getting Better; Bags Meets Wes
by Donald Elfman
Milt “Bags Jackson gained international notoriety as the vibraphonist and co-leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet, in which setting his rich and warm sense of the blues, his solid swing and his mastery of technique on his instrument provided a somewhat more animated complement to the slightly more delicate and ethereal playing of pianist John Lewis ...
Steve Lacy:The Gap; Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet
by AAJ Staff
Over a year ago we lost a pioneering musician who singlehandedly created a language for the soprano saxophone. Two overdue reissues from this year (both recorded in 1972) and a belated NYC tribute this month help us to commemorate his genius. Steve Lacy The Gap Verve/Free America 2005 ...
Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Band: Blue Mongol
by Elliott Simon
Blue Mongol acquaints trombonist Roswell Rudd's unmatched tonal mastery with the musical traditions of Mongolia, resulting in the most culturally respectful, spiritually uplifting, and musically interesting release of the year. While the Mongolian Buryat Band's combined instrumental performances on bamboo flute, horse head bass and fiddle, dulcimer, lute, and zither are comparable to the best classically ...
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