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Sonny Simmons: Last Man Standing
by Nic Jones
This is the latest in a series of albums under saxophonist Sonny Simmons' name put out by the Norwegian Jazzaway label; a further instalment in the documentation of an abundantly creative artist, but one who only relatively recently has started to receive the kind of exposure he deserves. The setting here is a straight-ahead one and ...
Healing Force: The Songs Of Albert Ayler
by Nic Jones
In the last years of his life Albert Ayler confounded the jazz audience in a way every bit as profound as he had in his previous guise as the most radical figure of the avant-garde. The fact that he did it with a mixture of spirituality quite in keeping with the predominant social climate of the ...
James Choice Orchestra: Live At Moers
by Nic Jones
Arguably one of the first concerns arising from any 23-piece ensemble is the sheer number of participants. In the case of the James Choice Orchestra, however, the issue of unwieldiness doesn't arise. The depth of compositional touch is such that it surmounts such a problem and the result is music of great variety and timbre.
Graham Collier: Down Another Road / Songs For My Father / Mosaics
by Nic Jones
Graham Collier Down Another Road / Songs For My Father / Mosaics BGO Records 2007 The late 1960s and early 1970s were years when European jazz in general, and British jazz in particular, came into their own in terms of the music making a fundamental break ...
Sten Sandell Trio: Oval
by Nic Jones
Pianist Sten Sandell and his trio have excelled themselves on record in 2007, and listeners accordingly owe a debt of gratitude to both Intakt and Cleanfeed labels, whose “Strokes documented the trio in the company of saxophonist John Butcher for a program of music that exemplifies in-the-moment creativity of an uncommon order. In comparison, Oval thus ...
Delta Saxophone Quartet: Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening - The Music of Soft Machine
by Nic Jones
Although this is a program consisting predominantly of music written by (now) ex-members of Soft Machine, the line taken is about as far from repertory as possible. It amounts to a rethinking of music that was nearly always distinctive. The approach here ensures that it ends up only more so, and not simply because a saxophone ...
Aki Takase & Silke Eberhard: Ornette Coleman Anthology
by Nic Jones
Aki Takase & Silke Eberhard Ornette Coleman Anthology Intakt Records 2007 Is pianist Aki Takase making a point of releasing an outstanding duo CD every year? Spring In Bangkok (Intakt Records, 2006), in the company of vocalist Lauren Newton, was a model of in-the-moment creativity, and whilst the ...
Eddie Prevost: Out On The Free
by Nic Jones
Drummer and percussionist Eddie Prévost has spent a career devoted to the outer reaches of the music. In the forty-odd years he's been musically active he has been a key member of the free improvisation group AMM as well as a band leader in his own right, leading units dedicated to mining a musical seam closer ...
Art Hodes: Friar's Inn Revisited
by Nic Jones
Delmark has hit the spot with this reissue in terms of music as social history. Trombonist George Brunis and clarinetist Volly DeFaut were both members of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, a band that played Friar's Inn in Chicago in the 1920s, and at the time this music was caught--over the course of various dates in ...
Sleepy John Estes: On The Chicago Blues Scene
by Nic Jones
Sleepy John Estes was one of the numerous country blues men who benefited from the upsurge of interest in the music in the 1960s, some decades after they were first caught on record. He was recorded at the time of the short-lived Memphis Blues Festival in June of 1969, and the results are part of Mississippi ...
