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Jim Robinson: Economy Hall Breakdown
by Nic Jones
At the time this music was captured for posterity in 1965, trombonist Jim Robinson had been working as a professional musician for almost forty years. That work experience in the traditional New Orleans style--Robinson had previously worked under the leadership of both Bunk Johnson and clarinetist George Lewis--comes out here in a program of music both ...
Guido Mazzon Sextet: Flights Of Fancy
by Nic Jones
Perhaps inevitably, this one's something of an epitaph for trombonist Paul Rutherford, whose death earlier this year robbed the improvised music fraternity of one of its most vigorous advocates. Recorded in 1993 , this is a session that documents him in customary peerless form in the company of an Italian group alive to the possibilities inherent ...
Tyshawn Sorey: That/Not
by Nic Jones
Tyshawn Sorey That/Not Firehouse 12 Records 2007 This is drummer/pianist/composer Tyshawn Sorey's first outing on record. It's a two-disc manifesto of some downright iconoclastic music, and the work of a quartet of musicians with their eyes seemingly on expansive, open, new vistas. That much is clear ...
Greg Burk: Ivy Trio
by Nic Jones
It takes its time, this music. On first listen it comes on like the work merely of an accomplished piano trio that ticks all those boxes labeled with qualities such as technical accomplishment, urbanity, harmonic sophistication and the like. Further listening, however, reveals something a whole lot more worthwhile. The spirit of Herbie Nichols stalks the ...
Kondo / Chadbourne / Centazzo: The Warriors
by Nic Jones
The title of this one's misleading, as this is music made by unconditional collaborationists as opposed to anyone of a more aggressive disposition. The results of their collaboration embodies that old saying about the meeting of minds, and the results are the outcome of a highly refined group sensibility that was evidently defined by the trio's ...
Peter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet
by Nic Jones
It can be argued that a kind of pluralist sensibility lies at the heart of this music. Trumpeter Peter Evans is the embodiment of it in the way he combines the music here with the willingness to play the piccolo trumpet in a Baroque setting elsewhere. He is, thus, evidently a man of parts; and even ...
Sonic Openings Under Pressure: Muhheankuntuk
by Nic Jones
For all of its commitment to a different aesthetic this could be a trio that takes its cues from the Ornette Coleman trio from some forty odd years ago with David Izenzon on bass and drummer Charles Moffett. As is so often the case, however, the comparison is as much hindrance as it is help in ...
The Birdhouse Project: Free Bird
by Nic Jones
So overwhelming is the presence of Charlie Parker the musical innovator and alto sax soloist that the idea of Charlie Parker the composer is comparatively neglected. His music is addressed here by a trio of vibes, bass and drums and that's a crucial point in the sense that Parker's melodic sensibility emerges in a fashion that ...
Buddy Rich: The Monster
by Nic Jones
The ambiguity in the title of this one really nails it. Buddy Rich was never a man to let subtlety or restraint get in the way of his ego, and in so doing he reduced the art of jazz drumming to a matter of overbearing machismo and overkill. In short, any beat that Rich played usually ...
Phil Miller - In Cahoots: Conspiracy Theories
by Nic Jones
Maybe it's not fair to refer to guitarist Phil Miller's times as a member of British bands Delivery, Matching Mole and Hatfield & The North as that was all some decades ago. But the fact of the matter is that the often very straightforward nature of the music on this one loses out in comparison with ...
