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Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: Intents & Purposes
by Nic Jones
Peter Hammill once described working with Van Der Graaf Generator as “serious fun," and anyone familiar with that band's music will have an idea also of the ambiguity of his description. VDGG specialised in a strain of the gothic as set down in literary terms by Edgar Allan Poe, and for all the idiomatic differences between ...
Herculaneum: Orange Blossom
by Nic Jones
One of the questions that always seem to be raised about original compositions addresses the issue of whether or not they hold the promise of longevity. It's a question that seems especially pertinent here. Drummer Dylan Ryan has come up with a programme of compositions here which, while they might lack something from the melodic point ...
Flat Earth Society: Psychoscout
by Nic Jones
Sit up and listen. Flat Earth Society is a big band with the integrity of a magpie, in the sense that it goes for the shiniest elements of a cultural outlook that takes in a kind of homage to Kurt Weill, incidental music for old TV detective series, and perhaps a touch of Henry Cow at ...
Club D'Elf: Now I Understand
by Nic Jones
This music takes its time, and only repeated exposure to its delights reveals the depth of its identity. There is an overriding sense of construction behind the entire programme of Now I Understand, which perhaps stems from the fact that it's made up from both real-time and collaged parts. It takes in elements of dance music ...
Daniel Levin Quartet: Some Trees
by Nic Jones
This group sets out a highly individual stall within the market of creative improvised music, not simply through the use of unusual instrumentation--and to the extent that even when these musicians tackle compositions by Eric Dolphy, Steve Lacy and Ornette Coleman, they bring to them a refreshing depth of personal interpretation and expression. Levin's own compositions ...
Ronnie Scott: Birth Of A Legend
by Nic Jones
Ronnie Scott's role as the owner of Britain's longest surviving jazz club has perhaps distracted attention from his work as a musician, and this situation was hardly helped by the fact that he wasn't recorded that often in his lifetime. This set goes some way towards rectifying the first situation, but at the same time it ...
Dave Liebman & Bobby Avey: Vienna Dialogues
by Nic Jones
A programme consisting of music from the likes of Robert Schumann and Georg Friedrich Handel should really be some kind of anathema to jazz per se, but what keeps it from being so on Vienna Dialogues is the deft interplay and deep musical understanding that exists between soprano saxophonist Dave Liebman and pianist Bobby Avey. In ...
George Lewis: Sequel (For Lester Bowie)
by Nic Jones
On this evidence of his artistic journey, George Lewis could almost be two people. On the one hand, he is one of the most compelling trombone players out there, while on the other, he also explores the interface of electro-acoustic music with exceptional rigour and intelligence. Over half of the music captured on Sequel is made ...
Aki Takase / Lauren Newton: Spring In Bangkok
by Nic Jones
Both Aki Takase and Lauren Newton have shown admiral commitment to music on the margins, and this is a highly idiosyncratic documentation of their work in progress. The term “singing" has never be adequate for what Newton does with her voice, and the fact that so much of her communication is non-verbal gives this music a ...
Irene Schweizer: First Choice - Piano Solo KKL Luzern
by Nic Jones
Comparison between the opening bars of the lengthy title track on First Choice and Cecil Taylor's solo work reveals interesting details. Where Taylor's more reflective passages tend often to preview bombast and iconoclasm writ large, Irene Schweizer's approach to the piano seems more reflective--more prone to rumination on an idea or a fragment of an idea--and ...
