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Jimmy Giuffre: Cool One
by Nic Jones
Within the archetypal West Coast sound, Jimmy Giuffre always had his own thing going on, and in the case of both The Four Brothers Sound (Atlantic) and Tangents In Jazz (Capitol), the two dates brought together here from the mid-1950s, that point seems obvious. He was of course a tenor saxophonist every bit as influenced by ...
Gordon Grdina / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian: Think Like The Waves
by Nic Jones
We should always be grateful for music that's greater than the sum of its parts, and here's a case in point: a guitar trio that covers a whole lot of ground in celebrating the timeless virtues of subtle, intuitive interplay--and celebrates the eternal joy of conclusively making its point without raising its collective voice. Of the ...
Chip White: Harlem Sunset
by Nic Jones
Chip White has a hell of a band here, but the fact that he provided it with almost an entire programme of stimulating material is what makes this a disc worth frequently returning to. Additionally, the quartet of White, Gary Bartz, Steve Nelson and Buster Williams offers such a captivating reading of “I Want To Talk ...
McWain, Balgochian & Cook: Vigil
by Nic Jones
The “classic" piano trio need not result in music high in gloss and technique and low in stimulating listening, as these three players prove on Vigil. Their music comes from somewhere other than the cocktail lounge, though hazarding a guess as to where might be a little fraught, especially as, on this evidence, the trio is ...
Ike Turner: Risin
by Nic Jones
This is how it is. Ike Turner sings like a good-time Captain Beefheart, and his guitar playing stings like inhaling lemonade. He's also one of the legends of popular music, whose course might have been different if it hadn't been for him. On this disc he plays like a man half his age and with a ...
Sound In Action Trio: Gate
by Nic Jones
Yes, yes and thrice yes. That's one for each member of this reed and drums trio, as the music is so democratic that leaving anyone out would be an affront, especially when it evokes the spirits at the same time as it celebrates the timeless virtues of musical character. One of the drummers is Robert Barry, ...
Peter Brotzmann Group: Alarm
by Nic Jones
Any Brötzmann group utilising material based upon the graphic instructions for a reaction to a nuclear emergency is never going to lack visceral intensity, and this music proves that with megawatts to spare. If the Brötzmann octet that put together the epochal Machine Gun (FMP, 1968) might be said to have been playing in response to ...
Dave Holland Quintet: Critical Mass
by Nic Jones
This particular lineup of Dave Holland's longstanding quintet had apparently been working for eighteen months prior to recording this disc, and that simple fact oozes out of every note played. There is a level of cohesion and empathy here that arguably can come only from such longstanding associations. Holland is anything but despotic in his leadership ...
Anke Helfrich Trio: Better Times Ahead
by Nic Jones
Anke Helfrich has been through what presumably must be the usual channels to get where she is right now, meaning that she's studied with some key figures in the music, and the results of that study are here in abundance. As such, the usual terms apply here much as they do with nearly every example of ...
The Necks: Chemist
by Nic Jones
This is apparently the thirteenth release by the Necks, and this reviewer is ashamed to admit that it's the first one he's heard, especially when the music is singular enough to satisfy the average iconoclast status to which this reviewer would make no claim, incidentally. Describing what the Necks do seems to serve no purpose when ...
