Home » Search Center » Results: Nic Jones
Results for "Nic Jones"
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: Tabligh
by Nic Jones
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has always carved out his own territory in the music and Tabligh is one of the best realizations of his work on record. Working with this trumpet/keyboards/bass/drums quartet format for some time now, this set captures in true splendor how constructively that time has been spent. The band is alert to every ...
Charles Ives: A Radical In a Suit and Tie
by Nic Jones
Rescued from the archives, A Radical In a Suit and Tie represents the premiere recordings of Charles Ives's best-known works from the mid-20th Century; composed approximately half a century before that, this music has lost little of its singular impact, which says much about Ives' musical vocabulary. It's not difficult to see how this music influenced ...
Joe Tex: First On The Dial
by Nic Jones
Joe Tex had some thirty hits with the Dial label and his earliest efforts for it are collected here. His was a soul voice that lacked both the grit of Otis Redding and James Carr's depth, which ensured that his ability to move was dependent on the quality of his material. He was a songwriter with ...
Blues On The Moon: Live At The Natural Rhythm Club
by Nic Jones
Byther Smith Blues On The Moon: Live At The Natural Rhythm Club Delmark 2008 As with previous Delmark DVDs this one's a document of social history in so far as it catches some musical and social activity in Chicago on a given night. The fact that similar activity ...
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath: Eclipse At Dawn
by Nic Jones
This one only goes to show how easy review writing can sometimes be. Imagine a band that on the occasion captured for posterity here consisted of eleven pieces caught on a night when they were in sparkling form. That doesn't do it justice. Arguably as much a political statement by dint of its very being as ...
Pam & Gary Windo: Avant Gardeners
by Nic Jones
Here's another excuse to exalt the good people at Reel Recordings for their efforts in sourcing hard-to-find archival material and audio restoration. Time hasn't been kind to Gary Windo in particular, and the scarcity of his recorded legacy makes this remastered release, culled from live recordings from the 1970s, even more important. As a tenor saxophonist, ...
Gale Garnett And The Gentle Reign: An Audience With The King Of Wands & Sausalito Heliport
by Nic Jones
Say what you like about the 1960s, but it would be no easy task trying to identify another decade of the late twentieth century when music as singular as this would have made its way onto record. On the surface, this is music typical of the era. It's only with repeated listening that its singularity emerges, ...
William Parker: Double Sunrise Over Neptune
by Nic Jones
This is so much more than an expansion of multi-instrumentalist William Parker's freewheeling and indeed freer work with his quartet, although a couple of members of that band are present in the ranks of this large ensemble charged with the task of bringing the music off the page. They do this with extraordinary clarity of thought ...
Corey Wilkes: Drop It
by Nic Jones
As the man who took on Lester Bowie's mantle in the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Corey Wilkes is clearly not averse to a challenge. He's also a musician with an above average grasp of where the music's come from and a clear idea of where he wants to take it. As a trumpet player he's already ...
Willie "The Lion" Smith & Don Ewell: Stride Piano Duets. Live In Toronto 1966
by Nic Jones
The more time passes, the starker the light thrown on a release like this. This is a point that can't be emphasized enough when it comes to something like the stride piano style and Delmark deserves high praise indeed for putting in the work necessary to get this music out there. Smith was arguably the greatest ...
