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Heavy Metal Duo: Work Songs and Other Spirituals
by AAJ Staff
The Heavy Metal Duo's Work Songs and Other Spirituals is the documentation of one of most unique duos working in jazz and perhaps in jazz history. Tubaist Bob Stewart has almost single-handedly expanded and redefined the tuba's role, and trombonist Ray Anderson covers the better documented and more extensive history of his horn with traces of ...
Wallace Roney: Prototype
by Russ Musto
Prototype is Wallace Roney's latest effort to blaze innovative new trails within the musical territory first explored by Miles Davis. The music that Roney and company put forth is simultaneously visceral and creative--revolutionary, but cognizant of popular tastes. The group--Roney's wife Geri Allen on piano, brother Antoine on saxophones, Davis alumnus Adam Holzman on keyboards, Matt ...
Big Satan: Souls Saved Hear
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Exorcising the demons with the fire and brimstone of a revivalist meeting, Souls Saved Hear marks the ferocious return of saxophonist Tim Berne's Big Satan. At just under 48 minutes -- the longest piece just over ten -- it is somewhat diminutive within Berne's catalog. But the taut arrangements distill the power of the performances. Focused ...
Helio Alves: Portrait in Black and White
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Brazilian pianist Helio Alves has put together Portrait in Black and White , a wonderful trio collaboration with bassist Santi Debriano and drummer Matt Wilson, who appeared recently at the Montréal Jazz Festival as part of the Charlie Haden Trio. The opener, “Frenzy," an Alves original, develops slowly within its circular theme, then accelerates ...
Maneri/Maneri/Phillips: Angles of Repose
by Ty Cumbie
Angles of Repose is the brand new release of a 2-year-old recording made at Chapelle Sainte Philomène, an old chapel in the south of France. Mat and dad Joe Maneri brought the veteran bassist Barre Phillips into the fold for these very personal music-making sessions, and ECM saw fit to share the results with us. The ...
João Gilberto: In Tokyo
by Russ Musto
For fans of Brazilian music all over the world, the voice of João Gilberto is as familiar as that of a father or trusted family friend. The vocalist/guitarist's signature soft, hushed delivery redefined the bossa nova style in Brazil in the '50s and initiated its popularity in the U.S. (through his collaborations with Stan Getz) in ...
Various Artists: Yes Indeed! Women Vocalists on United
by Andrew Rowan
This curio is more a snapshot of the jazz-influenced and -inflected popular singing of the time than a reflection of state-of-the-art jazz singing. Too many undistinguished arrangements and corny horn effects push these sides too far to the blatantly commercial side of the ledger. Most recognized among these singers today, of course, is Della ...
Ben Waltzer: One Hundred Dreams Ago
by Celeste Sunderland
Sometimes we're just looking to hear a good, fun jazz album. One Hundred Dreams Ago is it. Ben Waltzer on piano, Gerald Cleaver on drums, and Matt Penman on bass all play with a fearless ferocity. But the nine tracks don't sound wild, or untamed, more confidently swinging. There's not a hint of timidity. And there's ...
John Abercrombie: Class Trip
by A. Henkin
When guitarist John Abercrombie connected with violinist Mark Feldman for Open Land (ECM, '99), he continued a tradition, albeit in an updated fashion, that stretched back to Reinhardt and Grappelli. Introducing drummer Joey Baron in to the fold for the followup, Cat n' Mouse (ECM, '02), continued the lineage down to the triumvirate of John McLaughlin, ...
John McNeil: Sleep Won't Come
by Clifford Allen
In this varied set led by trumpeter John McNeil, ostensibly an homage to his own difficulties with insomnia, the term “chamber jazz" is given a slightly different twist--far from the light counterpoint of the MJQ, passages of intense freedom and effortless propulsion mark the improvisations of McNeil, pianist Jeff Jenkins and bassist Kent McLagan.
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