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Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill: The Story So Far...Oh Really?
by Nic Jones
Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill The Story So Far...Oh Really? Cuneiform Records 2007 British pianist Steve Miller and soprano saxophonist and British national treasure Lol Coxhill worked extensively together back in the 1970s. This carefully put together double disc set documents their music from that time and its release should ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Steam
by Nic Jones
The band name says it all. Three members of this quartet worked at different times in the original Soft Machine whilst the fourth has assumed the mantle once taken by the late and lamented musician, Elton Dean. They've come up with a program of music that pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of acknowledging the legacy ...
Hot 'n' Heavy: Live At The Ascension Loft
by Nic Jones
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Hot 'n' Heavy: Live at the Ascension Loft Delmark Records 2007 The spirit of the loft is alive and well and more than safe in the hands of Mr. Kahil El' Zabar and his cohorts, and he reveals as much in the commentary track on this DVD. ...
The Blueprint Project with Han Bennink: People I Like
by Nic Jones
The Blueprint Project's fourth release finds them working with Han Bennink, one of the greatest drummers to come out of Europe, so there can be no faulting their choice of company. The music they make together is nothing short of glorious. The program of group originals is understandably well tailored to the trio's distinctive group conception, ...
Chicago Underground Trio: Chronicle
by Nic Jones
Chicago Underground Trio Chronicle Delmark 2007 This DVD marks a break with precedent for Delmark in terms of its content. Whereas their previous titles have documented live performances in the raw with little in the way of visual stimulus outside that of the musicians working, this one is ...
Eddie Prevost & Alan Wilkinson: So Are We, So Are We
by Nic Jones
Percussionist Eddie Prevost has maintained a musical career for forty years now, and in that time he has worked the rich seam of free improvisation with single-minded authority. The temptation of comparing this duo with saxophonist Alan Wilkinson to Prevost's earlier work with the vastly underrated Lou Gare is great but to be resisted; not least ...
Alan Wilkinson/Eddie Prevost/Joe Wiliamson: Along Came Joe
by Nic Jones
This is music as a language of ongoing discussion in the best sense. Recorded at the Freedom of the City Festival in London just over a year ago, the single thirtyfive minute piece captured for posterity here starts out with Wilkinson and Prevost renewing their dialogue. In a dialect more heated than that found on their ...
Mat Maneri / Denman Maroney: Distich
by Nic Jones
Distich is a duo testing the limitations of its instrumentation. Mat Maneri brings his 5-string viola to bear and Denman Maroney his piano, on music that to all intents and purposes is concerned largely with new sonic possibilities. This is especially pertinent in view of what might be called Maroney's extended use of the piano, through ...
Guillermo Gregorio/Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride: Chicago Approach
by Nic Jones
The obvious precedent for any trio consisting of clarinet, piano and bass is the group that clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre once had with pianist Paul Bley and bassist Steve Swallow. But once that point has been made it serves no purpose in the discussion of this music, which is work that has to be dealt with on ...
Rene Thomas: Guitaristic
by Nic Jones
Belgian guitarist René Thomas could be the missing link between Django Reinhardt and Grant Green. On this collection of small group sides from the mid-1950s he proves why he was so valued by his peers on both sides of the Atlantic. Although the music is deeply within the West Coast tradition, the fact that he would ...
