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Eric Hofbauer & the Infrared Band: Myth Understanding
by Nic Jones
Guitarist Hofbauer is a working definition of what it means to be respectful of the nebulous thing that is the tradition without treating it as though it's worthy only of reverence. It shows with this group just as much as it does in his work as a member of the Blueprint Project. The music here is ...
Mario Pavone: Trio Arc
by Nic Jones
This is a meeting of minds. Bassist Mario Pavone first worked with pianist Paul Bley some forty years ago, but there's something about the music they produce in this trio setting with drummer Matt Wilson that renders the issue of time irrelevant. What makes it so is the underlying impression that this is music destined never ...
Dave Specter: Live In Chicago
by Nic Jones
Dave Specter Live In Chicago Delmark 2007 Specter is now a cornerstone of the Chicago blues scene and also the Delmark catalog. The label's faith in him is more than justified on this showing as he and his band know that the blues has never been about showy ...
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art
by Nic Jones
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art Andy Hamilton Paperback; 312 pages ISBN: 0472032178 University of Michigan Press 2007 Saxophonist Lee Konitz has long been known for the singularity of his musical approach. Andy Hamilton's book accordingly serves Konitz a whole lot better than ...
Jason Ajemian: The Art Of Dying
by Nic Jones
This one straddles the divide between the straight-ahead domain and areas of greater freedom with such aplomb that listeners might be left wondering why such categories exist at all. In addition, there's a pervasive low-key quality to the music which serves in itself to further cement this group's distinct identity. The cryptically entitled “Your Shirts" gives ...
Wally Rose: Whippin'The Keys
by Nic Jones
Pianist Rose was an original member of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band and played a key role in the traditional jazz revival of the decade immediately after the end of World War Two. This CD documents another aspect of his work, namely that of solo ragtime piano playing. It brings together two LPs recorded in ...
Various Artists: Creative Outlaws. U.S. Underground 1962-70
by Nic Jones
A themed compilation like this is revealing not only of the highs, but also the lows in arguably the most important decade in the history of popular music. As defined here it reveals also that the U.S. underground of that time was as open to cynical opportunists as it was to fervent idealists. Thus for every ...
Dennis Gonzalez / Jnaana Septet: The Gift Of Discernment
by Nic Jones
Trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez has been responsible for some beautifully realized music on record in the past and this is a worthy addition to the canon. The music's full of that often difficult to define quality called life, shot through with a group conception which makes for a realization which is simultaneously both tight and loose. The ...
Return Of The New Thing: Alchemy
by Nic Jones
This quartet mines some open spaces with commitment but the results aren't really all that involving. This is due in no small part to the fact that their focus seems to ebb and flow. This results in music that's at some moments diffuse, and at others full of the kind of all-out intensity that's mostly rhetoric ...
Little Arthur Duncan: Live At Rosa's Blues Lounge
by Nic Jones
Little Arthur Duncan Live At Rosa's Blues Lounge Delmark Records 2007 Delmark is as much in the business of social history as in that of capturing the present-day Chicago music scene with their DVDs, and this one is no exception. There's something downright honest about Little Arthur Duncan ...
