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Cecil Taylor / William Parker / Masashi Harada: CT: The Dance Project
by Nic Jones
Well informed readers of this website will know that any piano-bass-drums trio involving Cecil Taylor is not going to consist of “correct" virtuosity applied to the maximum in pursuit of sophisticated cocktail lounge music. It doesn't happen here, but what does is a moment caught in time, representing three empathetic individuals in pursuit of the music ...
Aki Takase / Rudi Mahall: Evergreen
by Nic Jones
One of the things that become obvious whenever a musician is recorded frequently is how they address what has gone before. Pianist Aki Takase has her own distinctive voice as instrumentalist, composer and performer, but evidently--and happily--that triple threat isn't enough. She also has an uncommon knack for bringing something fresh to whatever music she cares ...
Richard Pinhas / Merzbow: Keio Line
by Nic Jones
Both guitarist Richard Pinhas and musician/artist Merzbow (Masami Akita) have been working at their craft since the '70s, and this meeting of minds is in essence a microcosm of their work. As pioneers in the field of noise as music they've produced work that hasn't been co-opted by a broadening mainstream and that in itself perhaps ...
AMM with John Butcher: Trinity
by Nic Jones
The amorphous unit that is AMM has been refining--and indeed redefining--a sound for as long as it's been in existence, and there's no reason to believe that the process this implies is likely to ever stop evolving. This does of course render John Butcher's presence here as perhaps anomalous, but there are no musical reasons to ...
Gratkowski / Brown / Winant: Wake
by Nic Jones
This is a remarkably simpatico trio. The evidence is all over this program in terms of deft musical touches and the deep listening of all three members. Even in the most animated passages the music never descends into mere chaos, and there is an underlying logic which just might lie closer to the heart of musical ...
Soft Machine: Drop
by Nic Jones
The departure of Robert Wyatt from the drum stool in Soft Machine and the arrival of Phil Howard could have been a potentially fraught moment in the band's evolution back in the early '70s. Until now the only documentation of Howard's time with the band was on one side of Fifth (Sony/BMG, 1972), which was no ...
Aki Takase / Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Iron Wedding
by Nic Jones
If there was ever anything predictable about these two pianists coming together on record, the results are anything but. Alexander von Schlippenbach is the senior figure by some decades, but this is still such a meeting of minds that the difference of time pales into insignificance. This is their first meeting on record in fifteen years. ...
Jurg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet: Furioso
by Nic Jones
The whole issue of how deep influences run is pervasive in a lot of places here. In this set largely of free bop, leader Jurg Wickihalder's soprano sax playing often evokes the spirit of Steve Lacy in everything but the quack. It's notable from the opening “Warm-up Party" where Wickihalder and Achille Succi on bass clarinet ...
Seymour Wright / Eddie Prevost: Gamut
by Nic Jones
On Gamut, Seymour Wright is credited with alto sax and Eddie Prevost's percussive credit is roto toms. When it comes down to it however, those credits are mere points of reference as this is music purged of conventional technique, as if the duo has undergone a process of rigorous self-denial in order to find out what ...
Isotope: Golden Section
by Nic Jones
Cuneiform have done it again in terms of restoring one of the perhaps hidden corners of British fusion to a contemporary audience. The band's relatively conventional take on the genre is happily tempered by compositional variety and a level of interplay that went beyond what was the norm, making for music that holds the attention. Captured ...
