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Steve Coleman: Lucidarium
by Norman Weinstein
Steve Coleman Lucidarium Label Bleu 2004 Jazz Composer and Performer as Philosopher... These thoughts were triggered by the impossibility for me of reviewing the notable new album Lucidarium by Steve Coleman and his band, the Five Elements. Normally, someone who has spent over twenty years reviewing jazz albums would not ...
Jazz Jamaica All Stars: Massive
by Norman Weinstein
Jazz artists experimenting with Jamaican pop musical forms are nothing new, but this U.K. musical group does so with an imaginative freshness and an instrumental virtuosity that is groundbreaking. Led by bassist Gary Crosby, this ten piece band, augmented by a happy band of additional studio musicians, offers a completely beguiling synthesis of ska and jazz, ...
McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments
by Norman Weinstein
This is the first, and arguably, the finest big band album the distinguished pianist ever recorded. Six horns are utilized, with the neglected James Spaulding alternating on flute and alto sax along with tenor saxophonist Bennie Maupin, trombonist Julian Priester, trumpeter Lee Morgan, and the exotic horns, with Bob Northern on French horn and Howard Johnson ...
Blue Mitchell: The Thing To Do
by Norman Weinstein
Trumpeter Blue Mitchell had a sound in every way as individual as his label-mates Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan, and like them, tragically, he could misuse studio time recording uninspired bop and funk. The Thing To Do makes you wish Mitchell had been this focused and well accompanied more of the time.Blessed with a ...
Joe Henderson: Inner Urge
by Norman Weinstein
This brilliant remastering of saxophonist Joe Henderson's most emotionally urgent album also raises the possibity that it is the ultimate showcase of his distinguished career. The deference to Coltrane is obvious: pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones are on board on every selection, although shifting their styles to mesh with Henderson. The deference to Getz ...
The Other Side of Nowhere
by Norman Weinstein
The Other Side Of Nowhere Jazz, Improvisation, And Communities In Dialogue Edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble Wesleyan University Press 2004, 460 pages No topic in jazz is as notoriously resistant to easy explication as improvisation. The most ambitous book ever published on the topic, Thinking In ...
Dave Holland: Rarum X: Selected Recordings
by Norman Weinstein
Bassist and bandleader Dave Holland's career is oddly yet movingly outlined in this collection. Since the artist is responsible for the eleven tunes culled from ten various albums, I have to assume there was a sound reason for neglecting to include anything from What Goes Around, his forceful 2002 big band session featuring many of his ...
Carla Bley: Rarum XV: Selected Recordings
by Norman Weinstein
ECM has recorded the gifted and goofy composer and keyboardist Carla Bley for three decades, and this single disc career retrospective is a brilliantly compiled testimony to the breath and depth of Bley's singular talent. Until Bley, humor in jazz was primitively realized at best (e.g. vaudeville antics of Slim & Slam, Dizzy's hipster's jokes). She ...
Koto's Song: A Review of the Murasaki Ensemble
by Norman Weinstein
My wife and I are sitting in Yoshi’s, the Bay area’s premier jazz club, seeing an array of instruments looking wildly out of place on any jazz club’s stage. Our vision sweeps across three Japanese kotos, a traditional form of zither, several Middle-Eastern drums, an array of wooden and metal flutes, and a classical guitar. Only ...
Pat Metheny: Rarum IX: Selected Recordings
by Norman Weinstein
ECM's Rarum series, where artists choose their own peak recordings, has resulted in an occasionally refreshing departure from a conventional “Greatest Hits" package. Yet this Metheny retrospective seems only minutely different from a “hits" package, though it is a vast improvement over Works, the label's previous anthology of popular Metheny. Here is a 70 ...
