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Jimmy Blythe: Messin' Around Blues
by Nic Jones
The more time passes the sharper the light it shines on this music. Audio restoration has enhanced the quality of these pianola rolls made by a musician who was in right at the very beginnings of jazz. He was recording in Chicago before the end of 1927 in the company of clarinetist Johnny Dodds and others, ...
The Wrong Object Come of Age
by Nic Jones
There's no risk of hyperbole in stating that The Wrong Object come of age over the course of these two discs. Platform One is the earlier of the two and it finds the band in febrile form in the company of esteemed guests trombonist Annie Whitehead and trumpeter Harry Beckett, two players whose efforts have over ...
Alberto Braida / Wilbert De Joode: Reg Erg
by Nic Jones
One of the many conventions subverted by music as open as this is the one of soloist and accompanist, and here piano and bass fuse in a way that lie outside of the tradition, even in any of its less inclusive forms. Both musicians are restrained in the sense that they're alert to the value of ...
Garrison Fewell / Eric Hofbauer: The Lady Of Khartoum
by Nic Jones
Here's music from two guitars that covers far more ground than that description may imply. Fewell and Hofbauer are both players acutely aware of the sonic potential their instrument has to offer, and that awareness is one of the many qualities that combine lift the music on The Lady Of Khartoum well above the run-of-the-mill.
Ian Carr: Music Outside
by Nic Jones
Music Outside Ian Carr Hardcover; 204 pages. ISBN: 978 09550908 6 8 Northway Books 2008 This is the republication of a book first published in 1973, and as such--and without the benefit of rose-tinted nostalgia--it offers a snapshot of a British jazz scene that was extraordinarily ...
Josephson / Leandre / Smith / Blume: Cruxes
by Nic Jones
Here's music the realization of truly collective endeavor. Each of the participants is acutely aware of the needs and demands of the moment, and the music they fashion is accordingly free of overt precedents at the same time as it works the seam of free improvisation in trenchant fashion. The nature of the forces deployed Aurora ...
Bennet / Bryerton / Butcher / De Gruttola/ Kaiser / Smith: Sextessense. A Tribute To John Stevens And The SME
by Nic Jones
Anyone for an antidote to repertory? On Sextessense: A Tribute To John Stevens and the SME, the musicians involved are acknowledging what through sheer persistence and longevity has become a part of the tradition (one that is still likely to have the reactionaries foaming at the mouth, which, of course, gives them something to do with ...
Brad Goode: Nature Boy
by Nic Jones
Trumpeter Goode is one of those musicians for whom the post-bop continuum fits like the proverbial glove. In the still far from overdone setting of trumpet and rhythm section he brings something fresh, to pieces such as the title track and “I Remember You." Both almost literally qualify for the term venerable and do indeed in ...
Schweizer / Anderson / Drake: Willisau & Taktlos
by Nic Jones
Pianist Irene Schweizer, tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake on drums are individually benign forces of nature, no question about it, and the performances documented here testify to the fact. All three players are deeply alert to the integral values of free playing and they mine the seam so deeply that it seems as though ...
Koch/Schutz/Studer: Tales From 30 Unintentional Nights
by Nic Jones
Hans Koch (reeds, electronics), Martin Schuetz (electric 5-string cello, electronics) and Fredy Studer (drums, percussion) come out of an area of the music in which the parameters are defined as much by a noise-rock tradition as they are by anything closer to improvised music as such. There is of course nothing intrinsically wrong with this, but ...
