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Mississippi Heat: Hattiesburg Blues
by Nic Jones
Varied is the word on this one, even whilst the music retains a cohesive feel. Pierre Lacocque's harmonica is notable for its singularity, and he heads a rolling cast of musicians in the realization of his original compositions plus one from Denise Lasalle, amongst others. The music is clean and dirty at the same time. This ...
Jim Hobbs / Joe Morris / Luther Gray: The Story Of Mankind
by Nic Jones
There are numerous precedents for alto sax-bass-drums trios, and it's to the credit of this one that they manage to stake out their own territory in a well-populated area. Whilst the music they make is rooted in free bop territory they also have no qualms about covering more rarefied ground and the results are by turns ...
The Cosmosamatics: Free Within The Law
by Nic Jones
This group has fortunately been documented quite a few times on record, and consequently this disc offers insight into an ongoing affair. The front line of woodwind multi-instrumentalists Sonny Simmons and Michael Marcus has now not only established the kind of rapport Simmons used to have with Prince Lasha forty odd years ago, but also moved ...
Doppelmoppel: Outside This Area
by Nic Jones
If one of the ongoing preoccupations of an identifiably European approach to free improvisation is the undermining of conventional group line-ups, then a quartet of two guitars (Uwe Kropinski and Joe Sachse) and two trombones (Conny and Johannes Bauer) has to be some kind of statement in itself. The same is true of the music they ...
Various Artists: Doom & Gloom. Early Songs Of Angst & Disaster 1927-1945
by Nic Jones
We might be living in troubled times but this compilation proves they're not unprecedented. Every misery is covered here, ranging from the wrath of nature to the eclipse of humanity's highest practical achievements, with a side order of war and conflict thrown in for good measure. The thematic approach means the music straddles the racial divide; ...
Zentralquartett / Synopsis: Auf Der Elbe Schwimmt Ein Rosa Krokodil
by Nic Jones
This is a reissue of music recorded in March of 1974 and first released by the FMP label in 1976. The decades haven't diminished its fire and the fact that the group has reconvened and recorded occasionally through the years since marks this as the first document of an ongoing story. Communal ...
Nicole Mitchell: Black Unstoppable
by Nic Jones
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble Black Unstoppable Delmark 2007 This DVD is representative of lighter, airier aspects of flautist Nicole Mitchell's music, and the seven- piece Black Earth Ensemble puts a whole new spin on the notion through skillful deployment. The music is never forced and always the product of ...
Soft Machine: Alive In Paris 1970
by Nic Jones
Soft MachineAlive In Paris 1970Voice Print2008 This could just as well be titled Very Much Alive In Paris since the DVD captures for posterity a couple of Soft Machine performances first broadcast on French television's POP 2 program on March 2, 1970. It features the short-lived five-piece ...
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
by Nic Jones
The Uncrowned King Of Swing: Fletcher Henderson And Big Band Jazz Jeffrey Magee Oxford University Press Paperback; 244 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-534065-5 2008 This book first came out in hardback in 2005, but the intervening years have done nothing to diminish its status as the volume ...
George Schuller's Circle Wide: Like Before, Somewhat After
by Nic Jones
"Dewpoint," the appropriately titled opening track of Like Before, Somewhat After, the sophomore release of George Schuller's work with Circle Wide, is perhaps as elucidating as any semester-long course in conveying what it means to reaching a threshold of precise saturation, neither failing to live up to the bar set high nor causing discomfort by reaching ...
