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Peter Br: Short Visit to Nowhere & Broken English
by Derek Taylor
To the unaccustomed ear large-scale free jazz can easily sound like wanton noise. The very nature of free interplay, where close and rapid-fire listening on the part of the participants is a necessity, seems counterintuitive to settings populous with players. Perhaps that's why so much of the music is the province of smaller ensembles. Considering the ...
AALY Trio/DKV Trio: Double Or Nothing
by Derek Taylor
Those with their ears cocked to the Chicago scene have probably been following these two bands since their respective inceptions in the early Nineties and have no doubt been anticipating this meeting for some time. Vandermark’s been a frequent guest on the AALY Trio’s recordings, appearing of four of their releases over the last several years. ...
School Days: In Our Times
by Derek Taylor
While their name may be borrowed, School Days affects a musical persona far from derivative. The Lacy-Rudd project of yore may have been the impetus, but this trans-Atlantic ensemble is every bit its own entity. On their follow-up to last year’s Crossing Division the group, ostensibly helmed (and financed) by KenVandermark, rolls out another supply of ...
DKV Trio: Trigonometry
by Derek Taylor
‘Free jazz’- a signifier both lionized and demonized depending on the audience and the inclination. Its exact definitions are as protean as the tides but in the grand tradition of giving personage to the abstract few better archetypes exist than the DKV Trio. Ostensibly fronted by Ken Vandermark, a transplanted Bostonian whose Chicago roots now run ...
Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom
By Joe McPhee
Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2001
Track listing: Cries and Whispers; Mother Africa (for Miriam Makeba); God Bless the Child; Emancipation Proclamation; Hate Crime Cries.
Joe McPhee & Hamid Drake: Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom
by Micah Holmquist
A couple of photos in the packaging of Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom feature Joe McPhee and Hamid Drake dressed up in brightly colored shirts and appearing to be two Parrot Heads about to hear Jimmy. However, with all due respect to the fine music of Margaritaville, Mr. Buffett has nothing McPhee and Drake. ...
School Days: Crossing Division
by Derek Taylor
Music is a game of influences and Ken Vandermark is a musician who proudly wears his influences on his sleeve. Instead of refuting or avoiding them he routinely embraces and acknowledges them. It’s a lesson in character and rectitude that many of his detractors could learn from. His reverence for what has come before manifests in ...
