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Paths
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Just To Play; Dude; Footnote; Negative Clank; Nostalgia; Iquique;
Propelled By Portals; You?re My Everything; Longing Hoping Longing;
Critical Can Opener; Nardis; Sam Was Born.
Armen Donelian: Quartet Language
by AAJ Staff
Quartet Language is as much about history as it is about living in the moment. The 1992 live recording had to sit around for a decade before Playscape picked it up for release this year. Pianist Armen Donelian is a veteran whose credentials have never been in doubt: he first appeared on record a quarter century ...
Ted Levine w/Peter Madsen: Night Sounds
by Jerry D'Souza
Five of the tunes here were written, the rest improvised; a good enough balance to determine the rapport between the two. Do they get their chops off only from the written note or can they fathom and spar, merge and mate with the thought processes that emanate as they play, and at the end of it ...
Mario Pavone Nu Trio/Quintet: Orange
by AAJ Staff
Very, very few jazz bassists can cover the range that Mario Pavone swings on Orange. It's not a matter of expansive tonal color, which doesn't seem to particularly interest him much, but a relationship with the notes themselves, and especially the way they are put together. Modern jazz can be real tricky these days when it ...
Michael Musillami: Beijing
by AAJ Staff
As jazz musicians get older, they tend to get wiser. They also tend to lose a bit of spark, but there's nothing wrong about mellowing with age. (Usually their audience undergoes the very same transitions, which explains quite a bit about the music's demographics, but that's another matter...) In over a decade on wax, Michael Musillami ...
Peter Madsen: Sphere Essence - Another Side of Monk
by Frank Rubolino
Peter Madsen pays tribute to Thelonious Monk and his music on the solo piano recording Sphere Essence ' Another Side of Monk. Madsen spreads the canvas with rich textures, bringing the well-known compositions to life through his expansive resolution of their complexities. Monk's music has had more exposure since his death than I would imagine he ...
Michael Musillami: Beijing
by Frank Rubolino
On the highflying Beijing, Michael Musillami sets up shop with a swinging team of sprightly improvisers in bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller. Musillami gets into an adventuresome mode on this set, and the others enlist for the fun-loving trip. They play mostly original compositions by Musillami or by band members collectively. The music cooks ...
George Schuller: Hellbent
by Richton Guy Thomas
It can be a bit risky when a drummer leads an improvised jazz group, often relating to the approach to the music and a lack of harmony. But this CD is a pleasant surprise, seeing how the group features the excellent Ed and George Schuller, both sons of iconoclastic composer/critic/analyst/author Gunther Schuller. Nothing less should be ...
Tom Christensen: Paths
by Mark Corroto
Like his previous release Gualala (Naxos 2000) where he plays a jazz oboe, multi-reedist Tom Christensen adds the French horn to his piano-less quartet on Paths. But this band's second outing with wood flutes, bass flutes, clarinets and hand drumming is not about eccentricity. Christensen and company are all about making beautifully accessible yet ...
Pivot
By Mario Pavone
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Swedish Fish; Sequence; Bella At Six; Drop Op; Pivot; Halos; Trio; En
Tandem; Parallels; Swedish Fish Anthem.
