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Torben Waldorff Quartet: Brilliance
by Nic Jones
If this isn't a title that screams “hostage to fortune," I don't know what is, and whether or not this music lives up to it is a matter of opinion. What it is in effect is a programme of inoffensive, slightly dreamy modern mainstream that--given the silver tide of CD releases these days--could be destined to ...
Jurgen Friedrich: Seismo
by Nic Jones
A sense of restraint pervades this whole programme of piano trio music, and it works to make it less compelling, especially when the underlying approach is oblique both harmonically and rhythmically. On one level the trio seems to be trying to make maximum use of minimum material. While this approach can result in music that demands ...
Elliott Sharp & Reinhold Friedl: Feuchtify
by Nic Jones
It moves stealthily, this music, and the range of its tonal palette belies the instrumentation. In his piano work Friedl utilises parts of the instrument other than the keyboard, while Sharp makes use of the time-honoured in the form of the dobro and the comparatively new in the form of a computer. And while it's often ...
David Kane: Machinery Of The Night
by Nic Jones
The super-abundance of jazz musicians on CD has had the curious effect of making composition an area in which they can stake out territory of their own. That can be an important step on their way to what must still be that holiest of grails: the realisation of their own musical identity. David Kane is a ...
Taeko Kunishima: Red Dragonfly
by Nic Jones
Taeko Kunishima and her quartet have largely managed to avoid a lot of the well-covered ground in the modern mainstream area, and in so doing she's carved out an identity for herself both as a composer and a piano improviser--while the group, admirably suited to the subtle, implied demands of her music, has succeeded in carving ...
Steve Lacy Quintet: Esteem
by Nic Jones
Anyone who demands state of the art sound quality needn't read any further. This music was originally captured on a cassette by the late Steve Lacy himself and comes from his own archive, as maintained by his wife, Irene Aebi. Audio restoration hasn't resulted in state of the art reproduction, but when the music is as ...
Schlippenbach Trio: Winterreise
by Nic Jones
These musicians have been working together on and off for a long time, and perhaps the only thing they have in common with the “classic" lineup of the John Coltrane quartet is the fact that they work with such notable empathy that every disc they put out is in the most profound sense a document of ...
Furt: Omnium
by Nic Jones
Some times the real issues are the ends, and the means they're reached with, as much as anything else. Richard Barrett and Paul Obermeyer, together known as Furt, employ nothing in the way of conventional instrumentation to realise these soundscapes, which are as much about discontinuity as its opposite, and the resulting music can only be ...
Paul Quinichette & His Basie-ites: Like Basie
by Nic Jones
Like Basie has already seen the light of day in the CD era as an OJC release, but given its qualities, its reappearance here is welcome anyway. Paul Quinichette's career was perhaps more dogged than aided by the lazy “Vice-Pres" tag that was placed upon him because of his stylistic allegiance to Lester Young. As ever ...
Julian Arguelles: Partita
by Nic Jones
Partita, the sixth CD to come out under the leadership of Julian Argüelles, consists of fifteen tracks occupying less than 48 minutes, and over half of them don't even top the two-minute mark. Argüelles concentrates more or less exclusively on his tenor sax for the longer tracks, while the snippets are literally too short to merit ...
