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Fred Anderson: Timeless/Live At The Velvet Lounge
by Nic Jones
Fred Anderson Timeless/Live At The Velvet Lounge Delmark Records 2006 If there's a particularly effective way of documenting free jazz on DVD, this could be it. The fact that the old Velvet Lounge, the club saxophonist Fred Anderson owns, has now disappeared beneath the ravages of the bulldozers, ...
Tineke Postma: Live In Amsterdam
by Nic Jones
Tineke Postma Live In Amsterdam Munich Records 2006 There's something disturbing about this DVD, at least there is for me. It stems from the fact that if modern mainstream jazz, as on offer here, ever becomes the exclusive preserve of a technocratic elite, then some of its practitioners will only ...
Pete Robbins: Waits & Measures
by Nic Jones
If Waits & Measures is anything to go by, Pete Robbins likes to subvert form. In a lot of hands this disc might have turned out as no more than a light fusion date, long on melody but so short on character as to be emaciated. In the hands of Robbins and his band, however, this ...
Soft Machine: Grides
by Nic Jones
Any notion of a golden age should always be treated with the utmost scepticism, but the more time passes, the clearer it becomes that the decade from 1965 to 1975 witnessed perhaps the last great step in the evolution of jazz and its relationship with other musical forms. Jazz-rock fusion was destined to peter out in ...
Mujician: There's No Going Back Now
by Nic Jones
This quartet has been together for a long time, and its music has been documented on CD before. All of this is abundantly obvious in the single 45-minute piece on this disc. Within the first two minutes it becomes readily apparent that this is an extraordinarily empathetic group, each member constantly alert to the contributions of ...
Chuck Gottesman: My Hard Luck Story (And Other Tales of Woe)
by Nic Jones
Chuck Gottesman is a monster. He's well aware that doubling on instruments doesn't automatically mean a musician will grasp the potential of each one. However, his flugelhorn playing is as warm as Art Farmer's, while his trumpet playing seems to sizzle with a different set of ideas, and that's rare in itself. In addition, his skills ...
Walter Smith III: Casually Introducing Walter Smith III
by Nic Jones
Walter Smith has a whole lot going on here. On this programme of originals and standards, the saxophonist's work is often so far advanced from a harmonic standpoint (in particular) that he manages to carve out his own space in the modern mainstream idiom, and that's no mean feat in itself. He also likes to take ...
Polwechsel: Archives Of The North
by Nic Jones
The process of making music can sustain only so much discussion, and the essay that accompanies Archives Of The North more than adequately covers this abstract material. In any case, Polwechsel's sound world, as with any manifestation of experimental music, is better experienced than analysed. One pertinent reference point is Morton Feldman's singularly reduced minimalism. All ...
Kaufmann / Moore / Van Der Schyff: Kamosc
by Nic Jones
This is what happens when three musicians simultaneously come to terms with both their musical identities as individuals and a programme of composed music that is open to all sorts of individual (improvised) expression. This trio embodies a tight but loose ideal on Kamosc which is conducive to effective music-making, and from the listener's point of ...
Joe McPhee: Survival Unit II with Clifford Thornton, N.Y. N.Y. 1971
by Nic Jones
Without quesion, Joe McPhee is an American national treasure, and this recording offers proof that the idiosyncratic free jazz icon been one for over thirty years now. This disc documents a radio broadcast from at a time when the US was undergoing political and cultural upheavals, and the music is both reflective of such a time ...
