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The Sun Ra Arkestra: Music for the 21st Century
by Rex Butters
As one would hope from a release claiming certified lineage to the source, Music for the 21st Century finds the Sun Ra Arkestra still playing swing mechanique, angular outside freestyle, comet tail cold, and overheating from inward friction. Its indomitable goodwill intact and glued to the blues, the Ark still flies on a supply, the interdimensional ...
Big Satan: Souls Saved Hear
by Rex Butters
The return of Big Satan finds alto saxophonist Tim Berne, guitarist Marc Ducret, and drummer Tom Rainey playing the edgy, astonishing music associated with the reedman's recent outings. Despite Ducret's easy access to loud and rough hues, his work with Berne drains the denseness lodged in Berne's recent Science Friction , more fully revealing the convoluted ...
Dawn Norfleet's Jazz Project Levitates the Temple Bar
by Rex Butters
The blood red walls and dreamy Nag Champa haze of Santa Monica's Temple Bar enshrined a performance by Dawn Norfleet's Jazz Project. Dr. Norfleet's examination of soul jazz and funk found the patient healthy and ready to sweat. The sound system caught Norfleet's flute's full round tone, and her strong expressive 3.5 octave vocalizations. Norfleet packed ...
The Sermon
by Rex Butters
the old jazz musician sat wheelchaired on the Denver mall playing for spare change he wore a jaunty plaid fishing hat held his sax at an angle like Prez blowing the ballad “Lover Man." the white haired southerner his jovial meat red face
Pierre Favre: Saxophones
by Rex Butters
Pierre Favre has an interesting resume. Starting out with names like Lil Hardin Armstrong in the '50s, Favre drummed for Bud Powell, Booker Ervin, and other boppers before going free with the likes of Peter Kowald, Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann, and John Surman. On his new release with the ARTE Quartet saxophones, with Michel Godard adding ...
Mount Washington: Mount Washington
by Rex Butters
An artifact created during Line Space Line's first International Festival of Improvised Music, this self-titled session features heavy hitters like Wolfgang Fuchs, Anne LeBaron, Torsten Muller, Phillip Wachsmann, Martin Blume, and Tucker Dulin, collaborating on spontaneous compositions with LSL's Jeremy Drake and Chris Heenan. The wily group of sound artists devise a program that never fails ...
Evan Parker/Phillip Wachsmann/Hugh Davies/Eddie Provost: 888
by Rex Butters
These four esteemed improvisers participated with others of their kind at the New Music Days series of concerts as part of the Southend International Jazz Festival in 2003. To engender endless numerological speculation, they chose to perform at 8pm on 8/8, and from those performances come a solo piece each, plus a lengthy ensemble expedition into ...
Joe McPhee-Jerome Bourdellon: Manhattan Tango
by Rex Butters
Trumpeter Joe McPhee shows up for this live loft session recorded with flutist Jerome Bourdellon in 2000. The multi-instrumentalist manages to make a multi-instrument out of the pocket trumpet through extended techniques and unbounded imagination. Bourdellon matches McPhee's sonic searchfulness, artfully coaxing new flute nuances and sub sounds before articulating sweeping runs with unguessable destinations.
Skull Session: Rise Above
by Rex Butters
The appropriately named Skull Session burns with the passion of a great jazz band. Leader/guitarist Jeff Plotz writes loose, gritty tunes that break wide open. The scent of Ornette lingers at times, but this quintet plays it a way all its own. His use of improvised melodic invention, rather than shock and noise, has Plotz superficially ...
MTKJ Quartet: Making Room for Spaces
by Rex Butters
This LA-based quartet's first collection on Vinny Golia's Nine Winds Label presents an assured and adventurous group equally unafraid of free flight and swing. Jason Mears on reeds and Kris Tiner on trumpets blow an exciting and informed front line over the taut Paul Kikuchi/Ivan Johnson rhythm section. A post bop arrangement takes “Like ...
