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Faruq Z. Bey and the Northwoods Improvisers: Auzar
by Rex Butters
Detroit saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey's third Entropy release finds him returning to a three-horn lineup for the first time since his days with Griot Galaxy. Working a stylistic vein that would have fit '60's Impulse! with their bass-driven, Afro-centric, imaginative ardent songs to the sacred, Bey and the Northwoods Improvisers work from compositions, cues, and inspiration. ...
Johnnie Valentino: 8 Shorts in Search of David Lynch
by Rex Butters
Guitarist Johnnie Valentino lists “sound designer on his resume, and his Eight Shorts in Search of David Lynch demonstrates the craft. Valentino designs “sound beds, manipulated found sound environments with which the improvisers interact. Each captures a mood, with ambient dream world synergies seeping in, a la Lynch. The worlds spun by these musicians materialize before ...
Cor Fuhler: Corkestra
by Rex Butters
The resourceful Amsterdam-based composer/performer/inventor Cor Fuhler brings his hatful of tricks to the nonet form when he leads the Corkestra. Miniature sound wonders materialize over the course of these organized improvisations. Fuhler's love of old, distinctive-sounding keyboards fits his richly textured ensemble, which includes Nora Mulder on cymbalom, the Ex's Andy Moor on guitar, Anne La ...
Wadada Leo Smith/Susie Ibarra/John Zorn: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8
by Rex Butters
More live recordings from the Month of Zorn, a run of concerts celebrating the iconoclastic altoist's 50th birthday, this one encoding two very different sets. The first series features duets with percussion dakini Susie Ibarra. Ibarra abandons the more measured performances of recent Tzadik CDs and returns to the firestorm approach from her days with the ...
Rick Helzer and Vinny Golia: Fancy Meeting You Here
by Rex Butters
Fancy Meeting You Here matches reed regent and CalArts faculty member Vinny Golia with pianist and UCSD faculty member Rick Helzer for a collection of emotionally rich duets, featuring some heart-wrenching playing by Golia. The intimate clarity of the recordings allows Golia's considerable vocabulary of nuance full exposure. “You Tell 'em Kwai Chung flies out of ...
Jesse Sharps and the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra: Sharps and Flats
by Rex Butters
Nimbus West reached into the vault for Sharps and Flats to pull out sessions by Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra leader, composer, and reedist Jesse Sharps. The program features six tracks with quintet recorded in '85, followed by a warm chunk of '79 PAPA playing a Sharps composition live. The music is rich and urbane, unafraid of ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
by Rex Butters
Hat Hut has done the world a favor and restored Cecil Taylor's epic 1978 Stuttgart concert recording, One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye, to the active list. Originally released in the unwieldy three-record set format on vinyl, now spread over a less disjointed two-CD collection, this leonine work anticipates the increasingly popular juxtaposition of ...
Nate Morgan: Journey Into Nigritia
by Rex Butters
At the dawn of the Reagan years, LA jazz pianist Nate Morgan recorded his first album for Nimbus West. Finally on CD, Journey Into Nigritia portrays an artist marked by the icons of his day, and striving for reinvention. Although he came from a solid jazz background, coming up through the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, Morgan ...
David S. Ware Quartets: Live in the World
by Rex Butters
Thirsty Ear's generous Live in the World set presents tenor saxophone terror David S. Ware performing with his stellar quartet including pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker in three different concerts, on three discs, with three different drummers. The repertoire consists of Ware compositions and cover tunes personalized by the DSWQ. The epic ...
Ahmed Abdullah's Dispersions of the Spirit of RA: Traveling the Spaceways
by Rex Butters
Even with a few Sun Ra alumni bands traveling the spaceways these days, Ra trumpet player Ahmed Abdullah casts his solar disc into the star stream with his Dispersions of the Spirit of RA group. Utilizing former Sun Ra crew members and veterans of his own units, Abdullah presents a program of both well-known and unknown ...
