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Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra: Transmigration
by Nic Jones
To date, drummer/bandleader Kahil El'Zabar has had his music and ensembles extensively documented. That endeavor culminates in this title and it's nothing short of revelatory in as much as it's nothing less than notification of his art moving to another level. This impression is underscored by the fact that Transmigration marks a fundamental break with the ...
Zlatko Kaucic: L Tolminski Punt
by Nic Jones
Percussionist and composer Zlatko Kaucic has recorded previously for the Splas(c)h label, but L Tolminski Punt may be his best-realized project to date. All the elements that have figured in his music in the past are here again, which is a sign of coherent musical thinking and the fact that his artistic vision is coming together ...
Carl Ludwig Hubsch: Carl Ludwig Hubsch
by Nic Jones
Tuba player Hubsch is joined on Carl Ludwig Hubsch's Primordial Soup by trumpet, reeds, and drums for a program of his own compositions which reveals a singular musical intelligence. As with so many musicians and composers working in the constructively grey area between free jazz and contemporary composition, the success of the music is highly dependent ...
Various Artists: Freedom Of The City 2006
by Nic Jones
The Freedom Of The City Festival has taken place annually in London, England for a number of years now and Emanem have been on hand on a number of occasions to get some of the music down for posterity. If the evidence on offer here is anything to go by it's nothing but a worthwhile endeavor. ...
Bill Evans: Emergence
by Nic Jones
Pianist Bill Evans has become one of the three pervasive influences on that instrument in these early years of the twenty-first century, along with Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. This set gathers together some of his earliest records both as a sideman and a leader and, as such, plots the beginnings of a phenomenon. One of ...
Shorty Rogers: Shorty Goes To Hollywood
by Nic Jones
This is volume three in an ongoing series devoted to the music of trumpeter Shorty Rogers, released by Giant Steps. The temptation to say that what's on this set is unlikely to win any new converts to his music is great, but while it might be apposite the case is a little more complicated than that. ...
Sun Ra: Toward The Stars
by Nic Jones
The bandleader, keyboard player and composer christened Herman Blount made his reputation under the name of Sun Ra, and this compilation of pieces from the early years of his career could almost be an exercise in confounding expectations at the same time as it amounts to a strong case for Ra and his recorded legacy. In ...
Joe Harriott: Killer Joe!
by Nic Jones
Jamaican-born alto saxophonist, bandleader and composer Joe Harriott was destined to become a seminal figure in the evolution of British jazz in the 1960s. This two-disc collection of his earlier work in Britain is a primer in just what a gifted instrumentalist he was, covering as it does a range of his work from the mid-1950s--he ...
Chu Berry: Classic Columbia & Victor Sides
by Nic Jones
Chu Berry Classic Columbia & Victor Sides Mosaic Records 2007 This seven-disc set is both a summary of tenor saxophonist Chu Berry's tragically short life and an important contribution to jazz history. It is a “warts and all collection due to some of contexts in which Berry is heard, but ...
John Russell: Analekta (2004/06)
by Nic Jones
Guitarist John Russell has always devoted himself to the cause of free improvisation as a vocation and the music he and his cohorts make here is arguably the best-realized example of his art on record to date. The more time passes the more obvious it becomes that Russell just might be one of the most committed ...
