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John Surman: Listen and Trust
by Thomas Conrad
John Surman is arguably the best baritone saxophonist to come into jazz since Gerry Mulligan and one of the most important British jazz musicians of his generation. Yet he has rarely performed in the United States and never as a leader. Therefore it is no exaggeration to describe his upcoming gig at Birdland as a genuine ...
Bern Nix
by Martin Longley
The guitarist Bern Nix is principally known as a key member of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time band, the almost sole practitioners of harmolodic funk. The exact “rules" of harmolodic funk have never been completely clear to anyone other than its creator, but remnants of Ornette's head-heart-groin style are still discernible in Nix' current playing approach, even ...
James Carney: Ways & Means
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist James Carney takes the parameters involved in scoring films and applies them with the discipline of a jazz composer on the ambitious Ways & Means, the kind of challenging and cohesive work that listeners have come to expect from this exemplary musician. Carney's band is as great a gathering of talent as ...
John O'Gallagher: Dirty Hands
by David Adler
Saxophonist John O'Gallagher and bassist Masa Kamaguchi have a history. They documented their intense, ruminative interplay on O'Gallagher's two-volume CIMP session of 2004, Rules of Invisibility, featuring Jay Rosen on drums. Dirty Hands, recorded in Portugal during a 2007 European tour, is a continuation of that history, although this time we hear the leader and Kamaguchi ...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Infernal Machines
by Ted Gordon
From the first listening of this album, it is clear that Darcy James Argue intends to make a strong statement about the boundaries of musical genres--of jazz and new music--as well as about musical aesthetics and technology. This album consists of Argue's compositions for “big band" (or “large ensemble," depending on whom you ask) with a ...
Violin Twofer: Stefano Pastor & Mark Feldman
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Stefano Pastor Chants SLAM Productions2009 Mark FeldmanMusic for Violin AloneTzadik2009 The liner notes for Chants describe the record as being “a dialogue of Stefano Pastor with the other part of ...
Joey Baron: Secrets, I Believe & Live at the Vortex
by Kurt Gottschalk
Mark Feldman / Uri Caine / Greg Cohen / Joey Baron Secrets Tzadik 2009 Daniel Zamir I Believe Tzadik 2008 Julian Siegel Trio Live at the Vortex Basho ...
Global Unity: Belgium
by Tom Greenland
Brussels Jazz Orchestra The Music of Michael Herr W.E.R.F. 2008 Nicolas Thys Virgo Pirouet 2009 Fred Van Hove Journey Emanem 2008 ...
Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams & Laws of Motion
by Kurt Gottschalk
Jessica Lurie Ensemble Shop of Wild Dreams Zipa!/Spoot Music 2008 The Tiptons Sax Quartet Laws of Motion Zipa!/Spoot Music 2008 Jessica Lurie came to many people's attention through the Billy ...
Baritone Sax: Chalie Kohlhase & Lauren Sevian
by Jeff Stockton
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club Adventures Boxholder 2009 Lauren Sevian Quartet Blueprint Inner Circle Music 2009 Baritone saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club got its start as ...
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