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Kevin Norton: Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Solo music is perhaps the most challenging kind of all. With no place to hide, it's just the musician communicating to the listener. Percussion music presents additional challenges for both the performer and audience, since untuned instruments, like drums and cymbals, lack obvious melodic qualities and tuned instruments, like marimba and xylophone, are not inherently harmonic. ...
Bobby Matos and His Latin Jazz Ensemble: Acknowledgement
by Ernest Barteldes
It's too bad that the audience actually watching the show at Queens' Jamaica Jams Festival on August 6th wasn't as large as expected--most people there seemed to be more interested in shopping and eating than enjoying the music. Their loss, for those who did stop to listen to the short set presented by Bobby Matos and ...
Cosmosamatics: Magnitudes
by Jeff Stockton
What started as a song title on a trio session for CIMP nearly ten years ago (Transcendence, 1996) has blossomed into one of the most consistent and fruitful partnerships in jazz. The Cosmosamatics (primarily alto elder statesman Sonny Simmons and multireedist Michael Marcus) dabble in bop, post bop, and free jazz, with tightly written and arranged ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords
by Brian P. Lonergan
Pianist Carla Bley's supple Lost Chords quartet is a bit like a group of longtime dance partners--the individuals move in sure step together, but leave each other ample freedom to move. The musical result is an airy, spacious feel that doesn't sacrifice groove or drive.Far from being strangers, the four notes in this chord ...
Paul Motian: Sound in Motian
by Russ Musto
"Everything comes from the sound. It's in the sound. It's in the sound of my drums. It's in the sound of whatever I'm hearing, Paul Motian says describing his unique musical style. “I don't have any idea what I'm doing, what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I'm playing off of the other people I'm ...
John Hollenbeck
by AAJ Staff
By Chris DiGirolamo To take on the labels “composer , “drummer , “percussionist and “bandleader means being a busy man for John Hollenbeck. Maintaining his composition practices while leading The Claudia Quintet and his Large Ensemble, Hollenbeck this year alone has also toured and/or will soon be touring with vocalist Meredith Monk, pianist ...
Baczkowski/Flaherty/Corsano: The Dim Bulb; Cold Bleak Heat: It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War; Jumala Quintet: Turtle Crossing
by Jeff Stockton
Baczkowski/Flaherty/Corsano The Dim Bulb Wet Paint 2005 Veteran underground alto/tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty and his much-younger compadre, drummer Chris Corsano, have a bond. As a duo, they most often sound like a thundering herd of elephants, with Corsano cast as the thundering herd and Flaherty as the elephants, ...
Nu Band: Live; Lou Grassi: Avanti Galoppi
by Jeff Stockton
The Nu Band Live Konnex 2005 The Nu Band is not so much a pianoless quartet as it is four players with distinctive voices who engage in creative collective improvisation. Each band member contributes (at least) one composition and each tune spurs the musicians toward inspired interplay. You ...
Ursel Schlicht/Bruce Arnold: String Theory
by Ty Cumbie
Of the thousands of improvising musicians in New York, there are untold legions of gifted players who have scarcely been recognized. Ursel Schlicht should be counted among them. Her relative obscurity is partly self-imposed, as she seems uninterested in plopping herself comfortingly in a single marketable style, but the “industry and its attendant (or co-dependent?) slothful ...
James Carter: Out of Nowhere & Gold Sounds
by Jeff Stockton
James Carter Organ Trio Out of Nowhere Half Note 2005 Like last year's superb major-label-contract-fulfilling blowing session Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, the elders James Carter invited to the Blue Note in New York City for this date don't so much reign him in as provide justification for ...
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