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Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky / Michael Griener: The Salmon
by Nic Jones
The Salmon is one of those rare instances in which first impressions don't lie. The first run-through of this program revealed highly energized music that nevertheless managed to retain its clarity of both focus and purpose. Subsequent listening has added depth and substance to that impression, and also lent more weight to the overall impression that ...
Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet: Ancestors
by Nic Jones
This is bassist Mario Pavone's second release of 2008 and it's every bit as strong as the earlier Trio Arc, also on Playscape. In marked contrast to the piano trio featured there, the quintet fronted by two tenor saxophones here is a more heated, volatile affair. The resulting contrast is as good an example as any ...
Mary Halvorson Trio: Dragon's Head
by Nic Jones
Dragon's Head is guitarist Halvorson's debut as a leader, and there's every reason to hope it'll be the first of many. In the past, she's worked in duos with both violist Jessica Pavone and drummer Kevin Shea, as well as in Anthony Braxton's ensemble. It's clear that she's bringing that wealth of experience to bear on ...
William Parker Quartet: Petit Oiseau
by Nic Jones
Bassist and composer William Parker has been leading this quartet for eight years now and this is the group's third release overall. That information is more than usually pertinent in this case as it brings home precisely why this music is so cogently executed. Familiarity between these four men has not led to a blase attitude ...
Graham Collier: Deep Dark Blue Centre / Portraits / The Alternate Mosaics
by Nic Jones
Graham Collier Deep Dark Blue Centre / Portraits / The Alternate Mosaics BGO Records 2008 This is the second chapter in BGO's reissue program of bassist/bandleader Graham Collier's work from the late 1960s and early 1970s. It gives listeners a chance to catch up with some ...
Mahogany Frog: DO5
by Nic Jones
This is music made of big gestures joyfully subverted. A flash of progressive rock--in the narrowest, most virtuosic sense of the term--is figuratively taken outside to be administered a kicking. In addition and just for good measure, or perhaps in the interest of dynamic variation, a lyrical strain emerges when the music does get quieter and ...
Follow Your Heart
by Nic Jones
Follow Your Heart Joe Evans Hardcover; 151 pages. ISBN: 978 0 252 03303 2 University of Illinois Press 2008 Saxophonist Joe Evans isn't a musician who immediately springs to mind when discussing the jazz pantheon. He's a player who has slipped through the holes of ...
Anker / Courvoisier / Mori: Alien Huddle
by Nic Jones
There is something palpably happening in this program of improvisation which lends it distinction. In this trio of reeds, piano, and electronics it's not by any means the latter that is what might be called the rogue element. Instead the coalescence of the music as well as its frenetic moments provide its considerable substance. There's no ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief
by Nic Jones
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is one of a handful of musicians who have plotted a disparate course through the music whilst ensuring that not an element of their trajectory sounds contrived. There's also an enviable lack of contrivance about her work, and this disc offers abundant proof of that. Furthermore Intakt is a label with built-in quality ...
Eri Yamamoto Trio: Redwoods
by Nic Jones
If Yamamoto feels she has to make up for lost time working as an improvising pianist she's going the right way about it. This is her second Aum Fidelity release in 2008 and here her working trio gets the chance to set out its stall. The group grasps the opportunity with both hands and clutches it ...
