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Lyle Mays: Lyle Mays
by John Kelman
Lyle MaysLyle MaysGeffen Records1986 Today's Rediscovery falls under the category of “where is he now?" I first heard of keyboardist Lyle Mays in 1977, when Gary Burton's quartet (with guest Eberhard Weber), played at the Glebe Collegiate High School auditorium in my home town of Ottawa, Canada. After the show, speaking ...
Working the Rhythm Section: Tom Lawton, Lee Smith, and Dan Monaghan
by Victor L. Schermer
As Duke Ellington's standard goes, “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing." The rhythm section (piano, bass, drums, with guitar and percussion sometimes added) is the core of the typical jazz ensemble. They set the frame for the leader, singer, and soloists and contribute their own solos as well. Even though they ...
Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian: Hamburg '72
by Luca Canini
Un paio di premesse. Doverose: per onestà intellettuale e per profondità di campo. La prima: da un pezzo ho smesso di emozionarmi per l'ennesimo disco di Keith Jarrett. Gli ultimi flebili sussulti risalgono al 2000, al doppio Whisper Not, prova di gran classe pur nell'ambito di un virtuosismo che da tempo si era ...
Martin Speake: The Unquiet Mind
by Duncan Heining
We have here three very fine CDs from British alto saxophonist, Martin Speake. Speake is classically trained and when I first heard him in the late 90s, he brought to jazz a tone that emphasised the clarity of each note and the purity of the melodic line that was quite unusual in a music more used ...
Where Is Home: Janel & Anthony and Palo Colorado Dream: Anthony Pirog
by Glenn Astarita
Modern era guitar heroes such as Nels Cline, Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell are expressive stylists, possessing distinct ways of conveying a narrative amid branded and well-defined stylizations. No need to compare, but from a fundamental standpoint, these gents and other elite craftsmen bear the goods that often transcend the norm or anticipated methods of spinning ...
Chris Potter Underground Orchestra: Imaginary Cities
by Karl Ackermann
In the twenty year span since his debut as a leader on Presenting Chris Potter (Criss Cross, 1994), the Chicago born/South Carolina raised artist has been among the most prolific and in-demand reed players in jazz. Having performed and/or recorded with a wide range of artists from guitarist Pat Metheny to pop legends Steely Dan, Potter ...
Jakob Bro: A Happy Unintended Consequence with Kenny Wheeler
by Henning Bolte
A while ago a group of Danish musicians recorded an album entitled “Unintended Consequences." It was an enterprise to play music in a non-intentional way which demanded dealing with the paradox of intending something unintended. Sometimes however unintended consequences can “just happen" due to circumstances. That is what Danish guitarist Jakob Bro experienced a time ago. ...
C. Andrew Hovan's Top 10 for 2014
by C. Andrew Hovan
This will be a first in some time. For a variety of reasons, I had to curtail my writing activities about five years ago. As a result, my limited work for All About Jazz consisted mainly of photography and live reviews. As a result, I felt less then prepared in previous years to present any kind ...
Chamber 3: Grassroots
by Dan McClenaghan
Do different geographies create different sounds? New York-hard and brassy, in your face and boppish; the Nordic countries--cool and reflective, spacious and dreamy; the American Midwest, Chicago and Detroit--soulful and hip with a hard urban edge. This is, of course, a simplification, with exceptions flying all over the place, but distinct similarities in sounds can be ...
ECM Recordings
By Paul Motian
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD 1: Conception Vessel
01. Georgian Bay; 02. Ch´i Energy; 03. Rebica; 04. Conception Vessel; 05. American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull; 06. Inspiration from a Vietnamese Lullaby.
CD 2: Tribute
01. Victoria; 02. Tuesday Ends Saturday; 03. War Orphans; 04. Sod House; 05. Song for Ché.
CD 3: Dance
01. Waltz Song; 02. Dance; 03. Kalypso; 04. Asia; 05. Prelude; 06. Lullaby.
CD 4: Le Voyage
01. Folk Song for Rosie; 02. Abacus; 03. Cabala/Drum Music; 04. The Sunflower; 05. Le Voyage.
CD 5: Psalm
01. Psalm; 02. White Magic; 03. Boomerang; 04. Fantasm; 05. Mandeville; 06. Second Hand; 07. Etude; 08. Yahllah.
CD 6: It Should’ve Happened A Long Time Ago
01. It Should’ve Happened A Long Time Ago; 02. Fiasco; 03. Conception Vessel; 04. Introduction; 05. India; 06. In the Year of the Dragon; 07. Two Women from Padua.
