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NAM: Song of Time
by Rex Butters
From Clean Feed Records (“The Crazy Jazz Label”) comes NAM, meaning peace. Led by longtime Sun Ra trumpet player Ahmed Abdullah, it represents only one of many projects Abdullah oversees. During this live performance from New York's Vision Festival, NAM adeptly moves through genre walls like a penetrating vapor. Straight-ahead, funk, or holy noise, NAM acquits ...
Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey: Alive In Brooklyn
by Rex Butters
Alive in Brooklyn captures the buzz-prone Malaby/Sanchez/Rainey trio in the act on three extended performances, playing music improvised and occasionally arranged, keeping it exuberant and often enthralling. Their approach results in a unique flowing music, occasionally dissonant, but with unusual grace. Playing densely-toned electric piano, Angelica Sanchez nimbly keeps ideas coming. Tom Rainey drums with inspired ...
Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake: Back Together Again
by Rex Butters
Hamid Drake has been a member of Fred Anderson’s extended family for years. Drake took drum lessons from Fred’s son and replaced him in Fred’s quartet. Now a leading light in his own right, Drake returns to play with family on Together Again. The intimate sessions show the tangible bond between the two, and their ease ...
Line Space Line Festival of Improvised Music 2004: Making It Up As They Go Along
by Rex Butters
Day 1 With an auspicious starting date of Friday the 13th, the first night of Line Space Line Festival of Improvised Music 2004 got underway. This year, the LSL masterminds brought improvising musicians together from around the continent and had them play together for the first time the night of the show. Several introduced themselves to ...
Earth People: Simple... Isn't It?
by Rex Butters
Characterizing themselves as “the psychedelic free music experience,” Earth People formed in 2001 after performing together in what would have been a one-time-only TV appearance. In addition to a core of André Martinez, Doug Principato, and Jason Chandler, the band also includes a who’s who of New York musicians, including Karen Borca, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, ...
Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar: America
by Rex Butters
After adopting a low profile following the breakup of William Parker’s In Order to Survive band, Cooper-Moore returns very high profile in duet with leather-lunged reed man Assif Tsahar, who also brings acoustic guitar. Cooper-Moore, known for a pianistic range that allows him to be elegiac or shred, adds his homemade diddley-bo and mouth bow, as ...
Chicago Underground Trio: Slon
by Rex Butters
The prolific Chicago Underground expands its discography with a trio session featuring the fusion of laptops, acoustic jazz instrumentals, and charged free improvisations that defines their recorded output. The program of heated high speed interplay and cold techno ice caps displays a range of sonic intent rarely matched. For “Protest,” Noel Kupersmith bangs ...
Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Kevin Norton: Rylickolum: For Your Pleasure
by Rex Butters
Saxophonist Paul Dunmall and bassist Paul Rogers share a longtime association playing European improvised music. With Keith Tippett and Tony Levin they complete the quartet known as Mujician. Dunmall also plays with singer Richard Thompson. With guitarist Phillip Gibb, Rogers and Dunmall comprise Moksha. With percussionist Ken Norton, an Anthony Braxton alumnus, they form a long-travelled ...
Dwight Trible: Living Water
by Rex Butters
Dwight Trible is a preacher, turning any material into a song of praise. Trible taps into the tradition of assigning lyrics to existing jazz standards, aligning himself with King Pleasure, Jon Hendricks, and Eddie Jefferson. He stands firmly in the jazz singer’s domain of delivering a song true to its story while composing variations on the ...
Tiner/Phillips/Schoenbeck Trio: Breathe In, Feed Out
by Rex Butters
Breathe In, Feed Out fuses the extended imaginations of three of LA’s fine free creators: Kris Tiner, trumpet, Noah Phillips, guitar & electronics, and Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon. Together they fashion moody thoughtful music that delivers unexpected warmth and familiarity. Phillips stretchy metal dominates Tiner’s “Skujellifeddy.” Tiner and Schoenbeck play long unisons while Phillips buzzes and shreds. ...
