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Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory: Song For My sister
by Jerry D'Souza
Roscoe Mitchell has made several significant recordings during his long career. His is an ever evolving, constantly shaping mind, imagination molded into often stunning art. The placing and melding of sound patterns, the confluences or the expulsion of time, lend character and dimension to his work. For this recording, Mitchell has musicians that understand ...
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year Of The Elephant
by Mark Corroto
The aptly named Golden Quartet is either dubbed for the golden years of these four jazzmen, or perhaps it is the simple musical lines they have spun into an alloy of precious sound. The quartet’s impressive resume is beyond doubt. Wadada Leo Smith was a member of Chicago’s AACM and bands of Anthony Braxton ...
Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: Song for My Sister
by Dan McClenaghan
The band comes out swinging, lush, loose, rollicking, on the disc's title track, “Song for My Sister". Leader/multiple reedman Roscoe Mitchell on tenor sax, front line partner Corey Wilkes blowing trumpet. The band is filled with duos--two pianos, a pair of basses, a couple a drummers. “Song for My Sister", the song, is lush, full-bodied without ...
Henry Threadgill: Up Popped The Two Lips & Everybody's Mouth's A Book
by Glenn Astarita
This Chicago, IL born modernist worked his way through the ranks of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), while eventually forming the highly regarded trio Air, back in the early 70's. Nevertheless, saxophonist/composer Henry Threadgill's prominence sharply increased with the advent of his acoustic/electric Very Very Circus and Make A Move bands. Consequently, ...
