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Faruq Z. Bey with the Northwoods Improvisers: Auzar
by Paul Olson
Detroit saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey's third release with the Northwoods Improvisers, Auzar , may be their best collaboration yet; certainly, it benefits from the addition of fellow Detroiters Mike Carey (on bass clarinet and tenor sax) and Skeeter Shelton (on tenor). These three are ably supported by the core Improvisers lineup of Mike Gilmore on vibes ...
Lou Lanza: Opening Doors: A Jazz Tribute to the Doors
by Paul Olson
Jazz tribute albums to pop and rock groups pop up like dandelions year after year. They're almost always a terrible idea--listened to your copy of Basie's Beatle Bag lately?--but someone must be buying them, or musicians would stop doing them. Opening Doors: a Jazz Tribute to the Doors seems upon first examination to be ...
Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Dancin' Roots
by Paul Olson
Musicians have been combining various musical genres with jazz for decades and the results are often pretty messy. Jazz doesn't mix as well with its musical brethren as one might hope: often its improvisational side is diluted and all that survives the graft is an empty virtuosity. That's why the achievement of Italian acoustic guitarist Simone ...
Pamela Hines: Twilight World
by Paul Olson
Massachusetts pianist Pamela Hines has an elegantly swinging style with nimble, precise soloing and a great, autonomous left hand. Too bad there's not more of her on her CD Twilight World. She's got a great-sounding supporting cast in drummer Reed Deiffenbach, fretless electric bassist David Hines, acoustic bassist John Lockwood (these two split the album's nine ...
Geoff Young Trio: In Between
by Paul Olson
In Between , the excellent new album from Toronto's Geoff Young Trio, is forty-eight minutes of sonic paradox. The trio is composed of guitarist Young, bassist Jim Vivian, and Romhog Records factotum Barry Romberg on drums, and on this collection of six Young originals and one standard, they play an utterly beautiful style of acoustic guitar ...
Michel C: Lapon Bal
by Paul Olson
Québec saxophonist Michel Coté's Lapon Balèze may not be the best of the many excellent albums released by the Effendi label last year, but it is absolutely the most original. Coté's been very interested in traditional African music of late and he realizes this interest in the polyrhythmic setting of Raynald Drouin on drum kit, percussion ...
Helga Plankensteiner-Walter Civettini Quintet: Connections
by Paul Olson
Good chemistry, excellent musicianship. That's all a jazz group needs, right?Well, maybe not. The Italy-based Helga Plankensteiner-Walter Civettini Quintet--composed of Plankensteiner on alto and baritone sax, Civettini on trumpet and flugelhorn, Michael Lösch on piano and Hammond, Beppe Pilotto on bass, and Enrico Tommasini on drums--has excellent chemistry. The rhythm section's got a seamless ...
Stefano Di Battista: Stefano Di Battista: Parker's Mood
by Paul Olson
If you've seen the title, you've probably got this one figured out. Parker's Mood , Italian saxophonist Stefano Di Battista's fourth Blue Note CD as a leader, is a Charlie Parker tribute. Di Battista's usual bassist and trumpeter Rosario Bonaccorso and Flavio Boltro are teamed up for this session with the Stateside duo of pianist Kenny ...
Peter Br
by Paul Olson
Peter Brötzmann Trio Empty Bottle, Chicago January 12, 2005 On a bizarre January night--for Chicago, anyway--of thunder and torrential rain, European free-jazz pioneer Peter Brötzmann returned to the Empty Bottle to produce some extremely heavy weather of his own. Brötzmann's in town this week to play in several different venues in a ...
MRC Trio: That Magic Thread
by Paul Olson
The hardest-working musician in Canada just might be drummer Barry Romberg, who, in addition to various sideman gigs, plays in the Barry Romberg Group, the Three Sisters, Inside Out, and the MRC Trio--and distributes recordings by these ensembles on his own Romhog Records. The MRC Trio, a collaborative group with violinist Hugh Marsh and five-string cellist ...
