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Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Michael Gregory is the quintessential modern troubadour. He may not sing in a Romance language, but he turns his instruments of choice--guitar and voice--into a powerful language that enables him to recreate the sensuous, reverential and spiritual literature that, in turn, enormously enhances his songbook. Gregory turns on the charm on Clarity, a short, but memorable ...
Rag, Saddle and All: Curlew and George Cartwright / Davu Seru
by Clifford Allen
Saxophonist and composer George Cartwright might not be an oft-repeated name in creative improvised music, but he should garner a weighted whistle whenever he does crop up. Raised in Mississippi and now calling Minneapolis home, Cartwright was co-leader of the seminal New York post-RIO/squirrely downtown jazz ensemble Curlew, alongside cellist Tom Cora, throughout the 1980s and ...
Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
by Clifford Allen
Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity ESP-Disk 2010 (1976) In the musical climate of 2010, the fact that a diverse range of musical styles and approaches can be combined is something often taken for granted. Creative music has long recombined musics from various non-Western sources as well as jazz and Western art ...
Steve Colson: Doing Jazz Justice
by Gordon Marshall
As well as being a great music educator, Steve Colson is one of the most versatile jazz pianists of the last forty years, with a grasp of idioms ranging from swing to free, and from European romanticism to new music. What's more, he is a master of compression, incorporating these sources into solos and compositions with ...
Tom Harrell: Roman Nights
by John Kelman
Since coming back from hiatus following the superb Wise Children (Bluebird, 2003), Tom Harrell's been on a roll. On a new label (HighNote) and with a new working quartet, the trumpeter has gone from success to success, from the undeniably fine Light On (2007), to the even better Prana Dance (2009). Whether Roman Dances is even ...
February 2010
by AAJ Staff
Jack DeJohnette BirdlandNew York, NY January 5, 2010When Jack DeJohnette hires double-neck guitarist David “Fuze" Fiuczynski and acclaimed altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa as the frontline in his new quintet, he's probably signaling an intention to shred. The legendary drummer did exactly that when he debuted the new Jack DeJohnette Group at ...
At This Time
By Oliver Lake
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Swamini; 02. Gazzeloni; 03. For Patrick L.; 04. All Net; 05. Current; 06. Lake's Jump; 07. Long Melody;
08. Tey; 09. Barbara's Rainbow; 10. In The Realm... Of The Child... Of True Humanity Within (Gospel of Mary).
Makin' It
By Oliver Lake
Label: Passin' Thru Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: In Walked John; Gano; Say Girl; Spirit Of Man; Nu Peace; Move Groove; Makin' It; Dedicated To B.C.; Olla's Blues; I Want To Walk With Jesus.
Farewell Walter Dewey Redman
By Oliver Lake
Label:
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Dewey's Tune (Redman); 02. I-Pimp (Redman); 03.Boody (Redman); 04. Le Clit (Redman); 05. Transits (Lake, Hagans, Carpenter,
Erskine); 06. My One and Only Love (Wood/Mellin); 07. Sitatunga (Masters); 08. Joie de vivre (Redman); 09. Love Is (Redman);
10. Thren (Redman); 11. Adieu Mon Redman (Lake, Hagans, Carpenter, Erskine).
Henry Grimes, Paul Dunmall & Andrew Cyrille: The Profound Sound Trio at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
The Profound Sound Trio: Henry Grimes, Paul Dunmall & Andrew Cyrille The Vortex London, England November 23, 2009 A buzz of anticipation gripped a full house at the Vortex for the London debut of the Profound Sound Trio--a collective of British reedman Paul Dunmall and a heavyweight rhythm ...
