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Positive Knowledge: First Ones
by Rex Butters
Live and on record, Oluyemi and Ijeoma Thomas cover a lot of musical ground with their Positive Knowledge projects. First Ones continues that trend, featuring the powerful reed player and the fearless vocalized word magic of Ms. Thomas, along with long time collaborator Spirit on percussion. Ike Levin comes aboard on this edition, engaging Oluyemi in ...
Skip Heller: Out of Time & Bear Flag
by Rex Butters
Guitarist Skip Heller continues his organ trio odyssey with two new releases, each featuring a different rhythm section and very different programs. Out of Time recorded live at Tritone in Heller's original home of Philadelphia features organist Lucas Brown and drummer John F. Kennedy. The program consists of a collection of old chestnuts chosen to evoke ...
Dwight Trible at 5th St. Dick's
by Rex Butters
A warm lively summer night in Leimert Park found the Dwight Trible band celebrating their imminent departure on a European tour. 5th St. Dick's cozy environs hosted the festivities, providing an intimate visit with one of LA's jazz giants. Core band members wind player Joshua Spiegelman and percussion master Derf Reklaw joined Jeffrey Littleton on bass, ...
Go: Organic Orchestra Plugs In at the Electric Lodge
by Rex Butters
Adam Rudolph convened a ten night ritual in his Temple of the Infinite Now with the Go:Organic Orchestra. Venice's Electric Lodge housed the spontaneous combustion and over the ten days saw a parade of talent that included Bennie Maupin, Mark Dresser, Jeremy Drake, Harris Eisenstadt, Trevor Ware, Ralph Jones, Sara Schoenbeck, and others. Rudolph has created ...
Michael Session Sextet Rocks LAACMA
by Rex Butters
An enthusiastic crowd filled the Los Angeles Times Central Court at LACMA to cheer on hometown heroes, The Michael Session Sextet. After more than a dozen years with the event it could be renamed Michael Session Court, and no one attending the Friday night weekend kickoff would have voted against a re-christening. Session remains a dominant ...
Kamau Daaood/Jesse Sharps & the Return of the Medicine Men at the Temple Bar
by Rex Butters
Santa Monica's Temple Bar once again played Culture House hosting Fela congo player, Najite, as well as LA icons poet Kamau Daaood, and longtime Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra mainstay Jesse Sharps. A gifted wind player, Sharps broke out of his usual jazz mode and joined the Return of the Medicine Men, a solid roots reggae quartet ...
Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 & 2
by Rex Butters
ESP's reissue series matches two classics on one disc, Sun Ra's Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 1 & 2. These two 1965 sessions feature the Arkestra playing out, but mostly in small units, and rarely with the quirky humor often in evidence on Ra recordings. This space seems more intimate and introspective than some other galactic narratives in ...
William Parker Quartet: Sound Unity
by Rex Butters
From the musicians responsible for the classic O'Neal's Porch session (Centering Music, 2001; AUM Fidelity, 2002) comes Sound Unity, the William Parker Quartet recorded live in Canada in 2004. Bassist William Parker, drummer Hamid Drake, alto saxophonist Rob Brown, and trumpeter Lewis Barnes swing hard and bluesy, haunted and lyrical. These four musicians create palpable magic ...
Drew Gress: 7 Black Butterflies
by Rex Butters
Drew Gress throws his contender for year's best in with 7 Black Butterflies, a crackling collection uniting a stellar cast of players who live up to their collective reputation. With Tim Berne, Ralph Alessi, Craig Taborn, and Tom Rainey fully engaged, Gress holds an all-aces hand. His multifaceted compositions provide the tracks for this ride, while ...
Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah
by Rex Butters
Recorded in 1964, the same year as Gods on Safari, his Sun Ra recording, and months before Ascension, his first with Coltrane, Pharoah's First pictures the legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders at the threshold of his historic and still startling cosmic operettas with John Coltrane. It was originally released on LP as two sidelong jams and has ...
