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Philip Glass: Glass Box - A Nonesuch Retrospective
by John Kelman
Philip GlassGlass Box - A Nonesuch RetrospectiveNonesuch Records2008 Recent studies have proven that music is one of the few disciplines to utilize the entire brain--the left "analytical" side and the right "creative" side. There's no denying the creative aspect of music making, but equally there's a ...
Bill Frisell: History, Mystery
by Matthew Miller
For an artist rooted in sound and atmosphere, change occurs, more often than not, through Re-contextualization. Miles Davis embodied this over a career of brilliant juxtapositions and, in this way, Bill Frisell is his closest contemporary. The 58 year-old guitarist chooses collaborators carefully, employing them as foils to revolve around the swirling gravitation of his haunting, ...
Randy Newman: Harps and Angels
by John Kelman
It's been nine years since Bad Love (Dreamworks SKG, 1999), Randy Newman's last album of original material. In the interim the singer/songwriter moved to Nonesuch for Songbook Vol. 1 (2003), where he revisited some of his favorite songs. As good as it was, it's nice to know that, with Harps and Angels, his pen is as ...
Bill Frisell: History, Mystery
by John Kelman
While guitarist Bill Frisell has continued to shape his uniquely skewed confluence of musical styles, it's been too long since he weighed in heavily on the compositional side. In recent years, the writing has most often served the playing, largely providing a context around which the guitarist and various-sized groups can explore, expand and mine. That's ...
Brad Mehldau Trio: Live
by Andrew Velez
Returning to New York's Village Vanguard for another live recording, pianist Brad Mehldau's trio has Larry Grenadier (bass) returning and Jeff Ballard (drums) taking over for Jorge Rossy. Music seems to just pour out of Mehldau, as is buoyantly evident here. And often, as with Chico Buarque's “O Que Sera" or Chris Cornell's “Black Hole Sun," ...
Pat Metheny: Tokyo Day Trip
by John Kelman
Subtitled Live EP, Tokyo Day Trip is a specially priced gift for those who've missed the opportunity to see guitarist Pat Metheny and his trio of the past couple years, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez. At half the length of what a CD can hold, it's 41 minutes of pure gold from the best ...
Bill Frisell: History, Mystery
by Chris May
Over the 25 years he's been recording as a leader, guitarist Bill Frisell has worked in a multitude of settings, from gritty downtown to pastoral Americana, and with as many kinds of line-ups, from string trios through small groups to little-big bands. He's convinced in most contexts, and dug deep in many, always retaining his own ...
Steve Reich: Daniel Variations
by John Kelman
When a composer creaters an instantly recognizable style, there's always the risk that the listener will become complacent, feeling little variation to distinguish one piece of writing from another. Certainly Steve Reich--one of minimalism's founding fathers who has since gone on to expand his personal concept of the form--bears a number of stylistic markers, making it ...
Nicholas Payton: Into The Blue
by Chris May
This is a strange mixture of an album. It includes passages of extraordinary and singular beauty and others of noodling anonymity. Practically all of the interest lies in trumpeter Nicholas Payton's performances; most of the blandness comes from his band. The two best tracks, “Drucilla" and “Chinatown," are so exquisitely gorgeous that they almost make up ...
Pat Metheny: Day Trip
by J Hunter
Although Pat Metheny gets top billing on Day Trip, this is not a one-off superstar meetup, a la 80/81 (ECM, 1980), Question and Answer (Geffen Records, 1990), and I Can See Your House from Here (Blue Note, 1993). Metheny has toured with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez, on and off, for the past few years; on ...
