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Scott Rosenberg: Creative Orchestra Music Chicago 2001
by Rex Butters
Scott Rosenberg tickles, soothes, and bashes chaos with six performances by a 26 piece ensemble that knows how to rock and stare. Invoking demons like Braxton, Stockhausen, Cage, and Leo Smith begs for trouble--and trouble includes Kyle Bruckmann, Jeb Bishop, John Shiruba, Kyle Hernandez, Tim Daisy, and Jim Baker, to name a few. Rosenberg has his ...
Harris Eisenstadt Quintet: Jalolu
by Rex Butters
Harris Eisenstadt's quintet makes its recording debut in the Spirit Room for CIMP Records. The resulting Jalolu bursts with spicy interplay from a three-horn front line, joined and supported by Andy Laster on clarinet and baritone sax, his playing on the latter supplying the bass. Holding it all together, Eisenstadt travels over his drum set like ...
Rob Brown Quartet: The Big Picture
by Rex Butters
Rob Brown's Big Picture Quartet includes William Parker, Hamid Drake, and Roy Campbell, the band responsible for the sublime Raining on the Moon with Lena Conquest, recorded as the William Parker Quartet, as well as playing together in different configurations yielding some of the most vital and essential recordings of the last decade. In the grand ...
Cecil Taylor: Algonquin
by Rex Butters
Spending taxpayer money wisely, the Library of Congress commissioned Cecil Taylor to write a work for violin and piano in 1999. The resulting Algonquin features the pianist alongside violinist Mat Maneri, recorded before an audibly appreciative audience. Clearly enjoying the company, Taylor plays it frisky, free and light. Maneri has a more youthful-sounding partner than on ...
Wadada Leo Smith/Oliver Lake/Adam Rudolph Live at the Electric Lodge
by Rex Butters
Wadada Leo Smith/Oliver Lake/Adam Rudolph Electric Lodge Venice, CA On a sunny Saturday Spring afternoon, Venice's Electric Lodge housed the sonic sunlight of percussion pontiff Adam Rudolph and two old friends, Oliver Lake and Wadada Leo Smith. Leo and Lake have played together since the '70's, as the recently reissued Song Of ...
San Francisco Alt Fest's Cultural Quake
by Rex Butters
Index: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 The San Francisco Alternative Music Festival 2004 pulled off its third year organizing performances by world renowned improvising musicians with growing attendance, intriguing one time match ups, and spontaneity. Hosted by festival directors John Lee and Rent Romus, the event culminated ...
World Stage Jam
by Rex Butters
some seasoned players mostly young their saxophones slung at hour hand angles lightning rods bringing the sound to ground wait at electrified attention to play with the small stage piano eyes unfocused listen learn blow their hearts out a horn ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years 1971-1979
by Rex Butters
Wadada Leo Smith Kabell Years 1971-1979 Tzadik 2004 John Zorn's Tzadik label continues to honor the genius of Wadada Leo Smith, this time with a crucial collection of material he recorded and released himself on his Kabell label in the seventies. This four-CD box set gathers Creative Music ...
Brotherhood of Breath: Bremen to Bridgewater
by Rex Butters
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath rampaged through the British free jazz scene of the late '60s and early '70s, a loose big band/free orchestra built around a core South African unit that emigrated to London in 1966. They anticipated the African jazz boom of the '80s, and their ability to drop smart big band riffs through ...
Spring Heel Jack: The Sweetness of the Water
by Rex Butters
Spring Heel Jack’s previous Thirsty Ear disc captured a live performance with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Evan Parker, and others, creating dense grooves that some compared to the churning thickness of early ‘70s Miles. Their new release has them at times light as sunbeam lint, possibly a result of guest Wadada Leo Smith’s input—the structure is ...
