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Jack Dangers: The Mind of Meat Beat Manifesto
by Paul Olson
After more than fifteen years recording, Meat Beat Manifesto leader Jack Dangers is something of an electronic music elder statesman. Early recordings like Storm the Studio (1989) and Satyricon (1992) got MBM tagged as, respectively, an industrial and electronica act, but Dangers has always followed his own path. The new Meat Beat Manifesto CD At the ...
Dave Douglas at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago
by Paul Olson
Dave Douglas and Keystone Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago October 8, 2005This has been a great period for trumpeter Dave Douglas. The Infinite, Freak In, Strange Liberation, Mountain Passages--no bandleader this decade has surpassed Douglas in terms of remarkable recorded output.The excellence of the above CDs makes the ...
Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and Jim Hall Duo at Chicago Symphony Center
by Paul Olson
Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Jim Hall Duo Symphony Center, Chicago October 7, 2005As jazz double bills go, the Jim Hall Duo and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra seem rather ill-matched. Veteran guitarist Hall's duo with bassist Scott Colley is an exercise in quiet; the third member of this extraordinary pair is ...
Steve Lehman: Demian as Posthuman
by Paul Olson
Altoist Steve Lehman's quintet recording Artificial Light was one of last year's best albums, but Demian as Posthuman couldn't be more different. The mathematical-time compositions and bracing band dynamic of last year's release sounded utterly modern, but it was essentially a recording made by musicians playing in real time. The new release features some fine players, ...
Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis
by Paul Olson
Here's to the wonders of recorded music and cultural exchange. Either/Orchestra leader Russ Gershon's encounter with the Blue Silver label's Ethiopian Groove album, a compilation of the seminal, brass-packed Ethiopian jazz/pop of the 1970s, led him to arrange some of its pieces as “The Ethiopian Suite. They were recorded by the E/O for the 1999 album ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: The Sameness of Difference
by Paul Olson
The whimsically titled Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (there's no one by that name in the band, and the “Jazz Odyssey comes from the execrable free jazz piece in This Is Spinal Tap) occupies a rather unique place in the jazz world. Electric bassist Reed Mathis, pianist Brian Haas, and drummer Jason Smart aren't the most improvisational ...
Pat Metheny Trio at Chicago Symphony Center
by Paul Olson
Pat Metheny Trio Symphony Center, Chicago September 30, 2005The Chicago Symphony Center's 2005/2006 Jazz at Symphony Center season came to an auspicious beginning as perhaps the biggest name in jazz music, guitarist Pat Metheny, brought the newest version of his trio to the ornate, acoustically impeccable Center. Metheny's last album, the ...
KTU: 8 Armed Monkey
by Paul Olson
King Crimson percussionist Pat Mastellotto and ex-Crim Warr guitarist Trey Gunn (who work together as the duo TU) combine with accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and samples maven Samuli Kosminen (known together as Kluster) to form KTU--pronounced “K2." 8 Armed Monkey was essentially recorded live in Tokyo and Helsinki--the basic tracks, anyway--and then edited and structured by Mastelotto ...
Vandermark 5 at the Green Mill
by Paul Olson
Vandermark 5 Green Mill, Chicago October 1, 2005From the tiny, instrument- and musician-cluttered stage of Chicago's Green Mill, Ken Vandermark peered bemusedly out at the full house of avid, attentive, and, yes, fashionable attendees.“You are aware that we are the Vandermark 5, aren't you? he asked, and his confusion wasn't ...
Robert Glasper: Canvas
by Paul Olson
Houston-raised, New York-based pianist Robert Glasper's Blue Note debut is only his second CD as a leader, but one would be hard pressed to find a single argument against his being ready for the big-time jazz limelight. The 67 minutes of music on Canvas are packed with richly memorable compositions, virtuosic playing, unassumingly exotic harmony and ...
