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Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards
by Rex Butters
Anthony Braxton 23 Standards Leo Records 2004 Anthony Braxton returns with a 4-disc set that resumes where 2001's 8 Standards left off. 23 Standards features the same quartet as the previous release, again touring the archives of jazz and popular song composition to come up with a refreshing and varied ...
Billy Bang: Untitled Gift
by Rex Butters
Billy Bang Untitled Gift 8th Harmonic Breakdown 2005 This essential set reactivates two historic sessions led by vibrant violinist Billy Bang. Like the legacies of too many innovators of the last 25 years, Bang's sweetness, bravado, and blues traveling the outlands languishes in small label vaults, like those ...
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, ...
Nels Cline and Devin Sarno: Buried on Bunker Hill
by Rex Butters
Nels Cline and Devin Sarno celebrate ten years of creating sonic solar flares with Buried on Bunker Hill , their first collaborative sound sculpture to use multi tracks rather than live performance. The fuller sound creates roaring electric soundscapes with cascading loops and rumble, an orchestra of ohms. Their drones tend more toward majestic than tedious, ...
Peter Kowald: Duos 2
by Rex Butters
Duos 2 represents a posthumous sequel to Peter Kowald's 1998 FMP release, Duos. Kowald's missionary zeal spreading the gospel of freedom took him through several countries in old cars. Taped from '85-'90 and formerly available on vinyl, these recordings have Kowald hobnobbing with an elite corp of forward reaching artists from Europe, North America, and Japan, ...
Patrick Brennan: Sudani
by Rex Butters
Blowing in like a hot dry desert wind, Sudani takes you aboard a Moroccan caravansari whose cargo includes soulful New York free alto sax and Mississippi blues. The Sudanis-Njib, Bujmaa, and M'barek-provide the Gnawa, playing hand drums and the guinbri, a low pitched string instrument. Their music provides soundtrack for an ancient night long ecstatic ritual, ...
Sonic Openings Under Pressure: Rapt Circle
by Rex Butters
Rapt Circle presents Patrick Brennan's sonic openings under pressure in two performances three weeks apart in June of 2002. Brennan played free, then worked with advanced compositional forms that blur lines between spontaneous and prepared, developing over fifty pieces. With a nod to Roscoe Mitchell, Brennan evolved an original sound that keeps the alto meaty and ...
Michael Marcus Takes the Iron Horse to the Blue Note
by Rex Butters
Widely traveled multi-reedist Michael Marcus speaks with the same exhuberance and enthusiasm he demonstrates blowing next to Bay Area master Sonny Simmons in the Cosmosamatics and fronting the powerhouse Michael Marcus Trio, which he leads into the Blue Note this month. “After the Cosmosamatics tour, I took the train to Milan to mix the new Michael ...
Kamau Daaood: The Words of a Man
by Rex Butters
At the Watts Jazz Festival, An Army of Healers heats up a late summer day in south central LA. with troopers like Kharon Harrison, Bobby Bryant, Jr., Trevor Ware, Derf Reklaw, Nate Morgan, and the soaring vocals of Dwight Trible. Leading the band, a man with a voice like a baritone sax solo, more Pepper than ...
Duke Ellington: Blues In Orbit
by Rex Butters
Teo Macero's first Ellington recordings resurface in the latest version of the master's popular '58-'59 sessions issued as Blues In Orbit. With band still riding high after the '56 Newport triumph and fresh off the road from Europe, they recorded a jukebox full of 45 single-sized tracks that bear riveting performances by several classic Ellingtonians including ...
