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The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Rip Tear Crunch
by Nic Jones
The first striking thing about this music is the sense of space which just could have been the last outcome from a quartet lineup that includes two drummers. As it turns out, this music has a suppleness and flexibility that bodes well for the future of the group, as well as for any listener who gets ...
Vincent Herring: Ends And Means
by Nic Jones
It will always be appealing to hear a musician develop, whether on record or otherwise, and Vincent Herring's association with HighNote has easily been the most productive of his career, in terms of documenting his growth as an artist. Where once he perhaps owed a debt of allegiance to the work of Cannonball Adderley, he now ...
Brian Betz: Dichotomy
by Nic Jones
This release reaches us courtesy of the label that put out the recent Tyrone Brown album Suite For John A. Williams, which was not far from greatness. There, however, any degree of overlap ends. This is a far more straight-ahead affair by an exceptionally cohesive quartet, and while there is much to admire, the singular quality ...
Don Braden: Workin'
by Nic Jones
A number of potential factors can work against the success of any live jazz recording, despite the fact that the music should in theory always be at its best when captured in such a setting. Such factors, like the kind of form the individual musicians happen to be in on any given night, for example, are ...
Eric Alexander: It's All In The Game
by Nic Jones
"I'm trying to have the whole horn sing clearly and relatively evenly," Eric Alexander says in a quote in the booklet notes which accompany It's All In The Game. There's ample evidence here of how successful he's been with that aim, but he neglects to mention that allying it with an exceptional level of invention within ...
Francesco Cafiso: Happy Time
by Nic Jones
What's in a title? In this case, a whole lot of helpful clues about the music on this disc. Francesco Cafiso was sixteen at the time he committed this music to posterity, and to say that he has everything a musician working in the modern mainstream context needs is not hyperbole. A pedant might argue that ...
Tempus Fugit: Back Of My Hand
by Nic Jones
If politics is the new rock 'n' roll, then this reissue is proof that it was once the new turgid fusion with a side order of well-meaning vocals. British Prime Minister Tony Blair spent some of his college days fronting a happily unsuccessful rock band, and this release reveals that Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary in the ...
Scrote Bradshaw's Creole Marmalade: Mahogany Hall Teeth
by Nic Jones
Scrote Bradshaw is apparently a whole lot more than a self-proclaimed legend. 97 years young at the time this disc was cut back in 2004, he received a new set of state-of-the-art wooden teeth thanks to friends and well-wishers. With these occasionally in place, he was able to take up the cornet again after a gap ...
Bob Almond: Velvet Horn
by Nic Jones
Bob Almond is a man on a mission, driven by the fact that he once stood next to Mel Tormé in a Boston bar. Since that occasion he has not only become a teetotaler but has also been striving to become to jazz singing what Spiro T. Agnew was to unbridled lust. In that aim he ...
Joe Haider Double Quartet: Mysterious
by Nic Jones
Insofar as there has been any debate at all over the whole jazz 'n' strings thing, it was probably kicked off by Charlie Parker's work in that setting. There, of course, the strings served largely as a context for Parker's still extraordinary flights, and the issue of integration between strings and the standard small jazz group ...
