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MTKJ Quartet: Music From the 2003 West Coast Tour
by Rex Butters
The Mears/Tiner/Kikuchi/Johnson Quartet gathers four of LA’s best young improvisers to create fiery compositions and improvisations. While invoking Ornette or Braxton in passing, the Quartet delights in creating new sounds with a classic configuration. Since the magic of free improv lies in spontaneity, live recordings can capture the spark more vividly than studios works. With several ...
Free Fall: Furnace
by Rex Butters
With drummer-less clarinet trio named after a radical album by a drummerless clarinet trio, you have prolific Ken Vandermark’s latest collaboration, this with Norway’s Ingebrigt Haker Flaten on bass, and Havard Wiik on piano. Vandermark frequently shines a light on an elder, and this one points to the pioneering Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow trio. Additionally, Merce ...
Oluyemi Thomas: Before the Beginning
by Rex Butters
Recorded live at the 2002 High Zero Festival in Baltimore, Maryland, Before the Beginning documents Oluyemi Thomas in action. Under recorded and wildly original, Thomas prowls a boundless unknown through whichever horn he blows. The program presents Thomas as the constant playing with a changing configuration of partners. The CD divides the near-continuous performance into six ...
Bobby Bradford: Love
by Rex Butters
During an extended stay in England in 1973, cornetist Bobby Bradford found kindred musical spirits in reedman Trevor Watts, drummer John Stevens, and bassist Kent Carter. They only recorded once, live during a week’s residency in a Parisian club. Parts of those shows make up Love’s Dream, the latest release of this material from Emanem. Of ...
Vinny Golia: Music For Like Instruments: The Eb Saxophones
by Rex Butters
Iconoclast and master reed wrangler Vinny Golia returns with his latest offering from his 9 Winds catalogue, Music for Like Instruments. This first of two such titled projects planned for this year focuses on the E flat saxophone, better known as the alto. Joined by Jason Mears, Beth Shenck, and Nathan Herrera, Golia creates music for ...
Luther Thomas Quartet: Leave it to Luther
by Rex Butters
Leave it to Luther continues veteran alto saxophonist Luther Thomas’ fruitful association with CIMP. The label’s trademark living presence sound accentuates the tart and sweet sounds of Thomas and guitarist Ethan Mann, respectively, and catches every breath of Cliff Barbaro’s quicksilver cymbal work. Brian Smith’s basslines lurk and lead. As the band veers from free to ...
The Growing Influence of the Indie Jazz Label
by Rex Butters
Independent labels have dotted the jazz landscape for decades. Inevitably, they act as auxiliary veins to relieve creative blockages in the mainstream. Often they're run at a loss or breakeven by fanatical collectors, and more recently, by musicians themselves. Bob Weinstock's Prestige label offered Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane the chance to document their ...
Various Artists: Free Zone Appleby 2002
by Rex Butters
Eight of Europe’s premier free improvisers come together to play in different groupings, but only once together, on Free Zone Appleby 2002. The all star cast makes the double disc set a state-of-the-art free music anthology. The musicians involved in the project have in their own ways accepted sound as music and create through traditional and ...
Splinter Group: Blowing Down Blue Sky
by Rex Butters
G.E. Stinson’s Splinter Group experiments with popular song forms by microwaving them. Often the most sonically adventurous member of a band, Stinson plays with his own kind here. Steuart Liebig, Kaoru, and DJ Chowderhead add shards, shreds, and splotches of sound to the robotically unadorned beats. Known for his fluid imagination and flowing funk technique, Liebig ...
The Blue Series Continuum: Sorceror Sessions
by Rex Butters
On Sorcerer Sessions, longtime fans of Matthew Shipp will recognize the dense, jagged boulder chords and conceptions that defined his musical world prior to his temporary “retirement” at 38. His music often featured thick dark dramatic playing and compositions, a main course that became a seasoning on Shipp’s recent Thirsty Ear collaborations. Now the same Shipp ...
