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BMX: Bergen Open
by John Kelman
Tradition, in a living, breathing art form, is something that is continually defined, refined and redefined. When drummer Paul Motian--first coming to fame in pianist Bill Evans' mid-1950s trio--trimmed his quintet of the early 1980s into a bass-less trio featuring then-emergent guitar whiz Bill Frisell and equally on-the-rise saxophonist Joe Lovano, its very first recording, It ...
Daniel Humair in the Lions' Dens
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Drummer Paul Motian is well-known for his “melodic" percussion, in which he skits and dodges arrhythmically, letting the guitars and saxophones mark the pulse of the composition. But for all the praise breathlessly--and deservedly--heaped upon Motian for this approach, the number of drummers who follow his example somewhere on this side of the free-jazz frontier, is ...
Lost In A Dream
By Paul Motian
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Mode VI; Casino; Lost In A Dream; Blue Midnight; Be Careful It's My Heart; Birdsong; Ten; Drum Music; Abacus; Cathedral Song.
On Broadway - Vol. 5
By Paul Motian
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Morrock; 02. Something I Dreamed Last Night; 03. Just a Gigolo; 04. I See Your Face Before Me;
05. A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening; 06. Midnight Sun; 07. Sue Me.
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
By Paul Motian
Label: Soul Note
Released: 2010
On Broadway Vol. 5
By Paul Motian
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Morrock; Something I Dreamed Last Night; Just A Gigolo; I See Your Face
Before Me; A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening; Midnight Sun; Sue Me.
Jerome Sabbagh / Ben Monder / Daniel Humair: I Will Follow You
by Mark Corroto
How do you cook up innovative and inspiring jazz these days? Take a standard quintet and peel away the bassist (time keeper), then eliminate the pianist or chordal steward, and you are left with maybe the purest form of improvisation and interaction: the jazz trio. Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's trinity, heard on I Will Follow You, includes ...
Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases of 2010
by Dan Bilawsky
As 2010 draws to a close, I am taking this opportunity to look back at some of the new, standout recordings I've encountered over the course of the year. Some of my new favorites--like Paul Motian's Lost In A Dream (ECM, 2010), the new three-disc collection from the SFJazz Collective, and People Time: The Complete Recordings ...
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2010
by Dan McClenaghan
These are the CDs that never roamed away from the current listening shelf. Jessica Williams Touch Origin Records Masterpiece isn't a word to be tossed around lightly. Jessica Williams, with the eighty-eight piano keys and a lifetime of musical immersion, has created one with this recording.
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2010: December 1-3, 2010
by John Kelman
Dutch Jazz & World MeetingAmsterdam, The NetherlandsDecember 1-3, 2010 As difficult as it can sometimes be to appreciate how far jazz has evolved since making its first infant steps in the United States at the beginning of the 20th Century, it's equally remarkable to consider the scene in Europe. Beginning as a relative ...
