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John Coltrane: Turning Point
by Nic Jones
The music collected here comes from a period of Coltrane's career, namely the closing years of the 1950s, which so many tenor sax players have latched on to in the decades since. At that stage in his own musical evolution Coltrane's playing was developing that singular edge that was to be the hallmark of the final ...
Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This
by Nic Jones
This one could almost be a working definition of what Delmark exists for, documenting as it does an aspect of Chicago's seemingly ever-evolving creative improvised music scene and in so doing giving further exposure to a group of musicians surely destined to make an impact far outside the city's environs. If anything Jackson's writing for this ...
Mike Walbridge's Chicago Footwarmers: Crazy Rhythm
by Nic Jones
With music as venerable as this it's approach that's the key, and with these men the approach is nigh on perfect. Neither the dead hand of reverence or the corn that's often the undoing of traditional jazz performed decades after the event has a place here. Instead the music harks back to a simpler, more spontaneous ...
Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Twelve Tone Tales Volumes 1 & 2
by Nic Jones
Alexander Von Schlippenbach Twelve Tone Tales Volumes 1 & 2 Intakt 2007 Pianist and composer Alexander Von Schlippenbach has staying power. Over the course of 40 years he has proven himself to be as fervently committed to the cause of free and near-free improvisation as anyone out there. ...
Houle / Leandre / Strid: 9 Moments
by Nic Jones
Never was a title more apt. It says it all; in music so profoundly of the moment, and in a world where time sometimes seems infinitely malleable, it's the preciousness of the moment that's often the first casualty. On 9 Moments, however, every moment seems like a cause for celebration. Listeners can thus be eternally grateful ...
Ahleuchatistas: Even In The Midst....
by Nic Jones
If the notion of “post-rock" can be seen as something other than downright facetious for a moment, then the idea that such a canon would take in the likes of both Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu ensures that Ahleuchatistas belong there also. Such labeling, arbitrary as it inevitably seems, serves a purpose in this case in ...
Radio Massacre International: Rain Falls In Grey
by Nic Jones
It could be argued that Space Rock is the bastard offspring of Progressive Rock by those with a weakness for labeling, but when the former is put together with love and attention to detail--as it is here--any argument is just a waste of valuable time. Conceived as a tribute to the late Syd Barrett, the man ...
Shibolet / Josephson / Baker / Looney / Smith: Untitled (1959)
by Nic Jones
All the track titles on this one are also the titles of paintings by Mark Rothko, but presumably the connection between the two ends there. Certainly the accompanying notes make nothing of it and besides which this is music profoundly in the moment, conveyed by acutely skilled free improvisers. “White, Yellow, Red On Yellow" serves as ...
Jazzmob: Infernal Machine
by Nic Jones
This isn't so much a recreation as it is a reinvestigation of the fusion genre in that brief period thirty odd years ago when the idea was rife with positive implications and before the sterility set in. While this program isn't as radical in its departure from the norm as Miles Davis' music from that period ...
Lol Coxhill / Charles Hayward / Hugh Hopper / Orphy Robinson: Clear Frame
by Nic Jones
This coming together of Lol Coxhill, Orphy Robinson, Hugh Hopper and Charles Hayward on record is nothing but cause for celebration, especially in view of the fact that Robert Wyatt guests on cornet. The music produced by the group is an amalgam of their disparate musical personalities, which is just as it should be in the ...
