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Lisa Ullen / Nina de Heney / Okkyung Lee / Mariam Wallentin
by Eyal Hareuveni
The duo of acclaimed Swedish improvisers pianist Lisa Ullén and double bassist Nina de Heney, winner of the Swedish radio prize Jazzkatten for 2012 as the musician of the year, has been active now for more than four years and was documented on the remarkable double album Carve (LJ Records, 2009). Ullén and de Heney managed ...
John Edwards / Okkyung Lee: White Cable, Black Wires
by John Eyles
After its impressive debut, it is gratifying to report that the Fataka label seems set to continue in similar vein. Recorded by Sebastian Lexer in May 2011, White Cable, Black Wires follows the pattern of the first two Fataka releases, featuring a small, intimate setting involving a key London improviser-- this time, bassist John Edwards paired ...
Parker / Lee / Evans : The Bleeding Edge
by John Eyles
Parker / Lee / EvansThe Bleeding EdgePsi2011 The coming together of American trumpeter Peter Evans, Korean (now New York-based) cellist Okkyung Lee and English saxophonist Evan Parker is a fine example of the trans-continental links that connect improvising musicians across the world. Despite their coming from three continents, ...
Dave Douglas, Wadada Leo Smith & Taylor Ho Bynum
by Martin Longley
The Dave Douglas/Donny McCaslin Key Motion Quintet Jazz Standard December 8, 2011 This was the first of four Dave Douglas nights at the Jazz Standard, each of them highlighting a different performance perspective. The unexpected has become the expected where this high-wire trumpeter is concerned. Douglas is perpetually scouting ...
Anicca
By Okkyung Lee
Label: Dancing Wayang
Released: 2011
Track listing: Mu ah; Mu kyung; Mu byun; Mu jin.
Alon Nechushtan: Dark Forces
by Dan Bilawsky
The idea of placing a variety of daring instrumental personalities within different electronic-based sound collage nightmares is bold but, ultimately, hard to classify or grab onto. Dark Forces can't truly be called electronic music since the whole point of the music surrounds the integration of electronic and human elements, and it's hard to view it as ...
Punkt 2011: Kristiansand, Norway, September 1-3, 2011
by John Kelman
Punkt Festival 2011 The Agder Theatre Kristiansand, Norway September 1-3, 2011It was almost not meant to be. Plagued by a combination of airline snafus and the residual effects of Hurricane Irene--which had hit the northeast coast of the United States a few days earlier, creating (amidst other much more serious results) a ...
Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25: Groningen, The Netherlands, August 26-27, 2011
by John Sharpe
Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25Groningen, Netherlands August 26-27, 2011 Only in the Netherlands. Where else would anyone think to create such a harmonious conjugation of jazz and cycling? Now in its 25th year, the annual ZomerJazzFietsTour (Summer Jazz Cycling Tour) takes place in the bucolic countryside just outside Groningen in the northern Netherlands. ...
Okkyung Lee - Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik, 2011) ****
Korean cellist Okkyung Lee is one of those musicians who is not only comfortable in any genre—modern jazz, rock or classical—but in her own compositions she even goes beyond genres, not blending them, but defying them. The musicians who accompany her on this album attest to that: Cornelius Dufallo on violin, Peter Evans on trumpet, Craig ...
Okkyung Lee & Phil Minton: Anicca
by John Eyles
Following previous Dancing Wayang releases from the duo of John Edwards and Chris Corsano, and a solo release from Mats Gustaffson (with another from Peter Evans in preparation), the label continues its successful series of freely improvised music with this first recorded meeting of vocalist Phil Minton and cellist Okkyung Lee, recorded at Eastcote Studios in ...
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