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Ribot/Campbell/Grimes/Taylor: Spiritual Unity
by Jeff Stockton
When Albert Ayler went down into the East River, he simply wouldn't have believed that after 35 years he would be held in the highest esteem and the subject of a genuine revival. He always wanted us to focus on the sound rather than the notes, but we weren't quite ready to receive his message: musical ...
Fieldwork: Simulated Progress
by Budd Kopman
Has anyone out there ever been totally flattened by a record from the first notes? It happens that Pi Recordings was present at a Rudresh Mahanthappa show last week, and I was able to pick up a copy of Fieldworks' Simulated Progress, which I listened to on the way home. “Flattened" is definitely ...
Fieldwork: Simulated Progress
by Paul Olson
It's hard to write about the collaborative trio Fieldwork. On their sophomore CD, Simulated Progress, pianist Vijay Iyer, altoist Steve Lehman, and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee play a dazzling, intrepid sort of new jazz that's as deeply interactive as anything you're likely to hear this year. This is Lehman's first CD with the band (he takes ...
Marc Ribot: Spiritual Unity
by Mark Corroto
When you speak of the giants of free jazz--the signatories of its constitution, so to speak--you are obliged to include saxophonist Albert Ayler. But curiously enough, his immediately recognizable music, although revered, had no direct followers. His compositions have been covered, but not like those of John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman. Maybe he was too much ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Mother Tongue
by Ollie Bivens
The latest album by India-born saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa explores the connection between language and music, ancestry and contemporary American life. Continually asked by Americans, “Do you speak Indian?" or “Do you speak Hindu?", Mahanthappa has answered by basing the recording on the sounds of speech. With a population of one billion people and numerous ethnic groups, ...
The Revolutionary Ensemble: And Now ...
by Jerry D'Souza
The recordings the Revolutionary Music Ensemble made in the '70s were adventurous and daring. Having stamped their credentials, the members of the group went their separate ways before that decade came to a close and pursued individual careers. Now, more than twenty years after their groundbreaking recording of The People's Republic, they stir the waters once ...
Wadada Leo Smith/Anthony Braxton: Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Warm Embrace
by Rex Butters
Following last year's warmly received duet recording of Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith, Organic Resonance , Pi Recordings releases Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace. Like the previous recording, this disc basks in the intimacy of two old friends' conversations. Both AACM charter members, both thought quite mad by self-appointed jazz guardians, ...
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Sirius Calling
by Mark Corroto
If you want a very accessible introduction to the music of Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sirius Calling is a great place to start. If you are a long time follower, it won't disappoint. The fourteen songs presented here are short in length, half clocking in at less then four minutes. Enough music to fill the 65 ...
Sirius Calling
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: Sirius Calling, Come On Y'all; Two-Twenty; He Took A Cab To Neptune; Everyday's A Perfect Day;
Till Autumn; Dance Of Circles; Cruising With JJ; You Can't Get Away; Taiko; There's A Message For
You; Slow Tenor A Bass; Voyage; The Council.
