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Rudresh Mahanthappa / Kadri Gopalnath: Kinsmen
by Budd Kopman
Kinsmen is the physical actualization of a long path that started with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's desire to create a music that is a hybrid (not a fusion) of American jazz and classical Indian Carnatic music. Improvisation is central to both aesthetics with differing emphases, embodied primarily in the playing of Mahanthappa and alto saxophonist Kadri ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Kinsmen
by J Hunter
It's hard to know what key will open a locked door. For Rudresh Mahanthappa, the door was his desire to meld the compositional and improvisatory esthetics of jazz and Indian classical music. Mahanthappa's key arrived when his brother gave him a post-recital gag gift: A CD by legendary Indian musician Kadri Gopalnath called Saxophone Indian Style ...
Fieldwork: Door
by Lyn Horton
The selection of which avenue to follow in music is the whole ball game to sustain the integrity of a particular venture. On Fieldwork's Door, the measure of the music's success has to do with the recognition that it centers within a specific tonal range. The alto sax, played by Steve Lehman, establishes that range. There ...
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Party Intellectuals
by AAJ Italy Staff
Inquadrare, classificare, etichettare. Il compito di chi scrive una recensione spesso si riduce, per mere questioni pratiche o per manifesta incapacità, a indicare le assonanze che richiamano un artista e la sua opera. Beh, provateci voi con Marc Ribot. Dalla no wave newyorchese alle genialate di Tom Waits, dalla scuderia zorniana alla downtown, dalla musica cubana ...
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Party Intellectuals
by Troy Collins
Ceramic Dog, legendary guitarist Marc Ribot's new power trio, opens their appropriately titled debut album, Party Intellectuals, with a riotous statement of intent; tearing through a grungy surf-punk take on The Door's “Break on Through," the trio proves they're here to party, political puns notwithstanding. Ribot's renowned sideman work with Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, ...
Fieldwork: Door
by Troy Collins
In the three years since their sophomore recording, Simulated Progress (Pi Recordings, 2005), the collective trio Fieldwork has expanded its scope beyond sophisticated M-Base funk to delve into more expansive territory on Door. Comprised of pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshaw Sorey, Fieldwork operates as a true cooperative, offering a model of balanced ...
Muhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence
by Martin Longley
This is a live solo piano set from 1998's Guelph Jazz Festival, in Canada. Chicagoan-cum-New York pianist Muhal Richard Abrams performs the album's title piece, which is around an hour long and is divided into three parts. Ultimately, there are only the tiniest breaks in this improvisation and these demarcations only exist for listening convenience. Once ...
Amir ElSaffar: Two Rivers
by Laurel Gross
This exploration of Iraqi, American and Arab sensibilities, rooted in the lands and cultures bordering the Tigris and Euphrates rivers--the two flowing sources of the CD's title--is deeply affecting, musically adventurous and provocative. American-born ElSaffar, a talented New York-based trumpeter/composer, ventured to Iraq six years ago to study the music of his father's ...
Steve Lehman Quintet: On Meaning
by Troy Collins
Saxophonist Steve Lehman is a Fulbright scholar and former student of legendary saxophonists Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton. His recent collaborations with pianist Vijay Iyer and guitarist Liberty Ellman have found him further expanding the intricate polyrhythms and asymmetrical structures that define the M- Base aesthetic. Incorporating the angular polyphony of Braxton's concepts with the advanced ...
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