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Harris Eisenstadt: The Soul and Gone
by Rex Butters
Composer/percussionist/drummer Harris Eisenstadt made a brief trip to Chicago to mix it up with the locals, and the lively and listenable new music scene he encountered inspired him to document the action. He returned to Los Angeles long enough to grab some scores and reed roaster Jason Mears, and The Soul and Gone was born. Utilizing ...
Mark Whitecage: BushWacked: A Spoken Opera
by Rex Butters
Mark Whitecage and The Bi-Coastal Orchestra step up to the podium to deliver the statement of sanity many people have been waiting on for five years. BushWacked takes aim at the deadly dada debacle that has inexplicably passed for government and foreign policy in the United States since the turn of the millennium. Whitecage and company ...
Craig Harris: Souls Within the Veil
by Rex Butters
Craig Harris returns with an ambitious, fully-realized project composed to commemorate the centennial of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folks. Recruiting ten of the strongest voices playing today, including Steve Coleman, Hamiet Bluiett, Oliver Lake and Don Byron, Harris creates a powerful suite recorded live over two CDs. Twelve years have elapsed since Harris' ...
Skip Heller: Liberal Dose
by Rex Butters
One imagines Skip Heller with an enormous rolodex of nothing but undersung organists. It seems like each new Heller release introduces a different organist from a different region, bringing new flavors and delights to the guitarist's evolving organ trio format. On Liberal Dose, Heller teams with players--Alabaman Chris Spies behind the Hammond and David White on ...
Gerald Wilson: In His Time
by Rex Butters
At 87, Gerald Wilson casts a long shadow over the history of jazz. His new collection In My Time sizzles with power and joy, as a New York allstar ensemble ignites his dazzling arrangements. His musical associations and friendships catalogue some of the best musicians of the last 60 years: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, ...
The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble: 20th Anniversary Concert
by Rex Butters
The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble 20th Anniversary Concert Nine Winds 2005 Vinny Golia continues to make history in Los Angeles with the release of this DVD, the first on his Nine Winds label. Shot on three cameras with excellent sound recording, the program features a good look at 36 of ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Ahimsa Orchestra
by Rex Butters
Presenting two extended compositions played by two different large ensembles, Harris Eisenstadt's Ahimsa Orchestra highlights the percussionist/composer's emergence as an artistic force to be reckoned with. Eisenstadt gathers an impressive array of West Coast improvisers and feeds them charts inspired by his broad musical interests. Recorded live, the improvisations often launch from segments of music composed ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Snakish
by Rex Butters
Of all the avant-garde players from his generation, Wadada Leo Smith easily ranks among the most insightful collaborators with electronic musicians. His willingness to include electrified lexicon in his musical language now yields Snakish, a surprising soundscape created with a band culled from the Cal/Arts faculty, including guitarist Miroslav Tadic and electrician Walter Quintus, as well ...
Khan Jamal Quintet: Black Awareness
by Rex Butters
Vibraphonist Khan Jamal's fourth session for CIMP finds the veteran in the company of old friends for a relaxed atmosphere in which to blow. Longtime collaborator Byard Lancaster plays a sweetly inflected alto that's also capable of a bite. Trombonist Grachan Moncur III stays low-key, most times preferring understatement. Bassist Dylan Taylor and drummer Dwight James ...
Adam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music
by Rex Butters
Zero Degree Music documents Adam Lane's trio in what hopefully will be the first of many collaborations to come. Basing its kinetic explorations on Lane's original compositions, the trio rolls the structure around until every facet has been exposed and polished, discovering new jewels along the way. Lane snakes lyrical time-bound bass through the tumult, while ...
