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Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Upriver
by Rex Butters
Wadada Leo Smith and Henry Kaiser's Yo Miles! band completes a trilogy with the release of Up River, their latest double-disc dive into the exotic and sensual world of Miles Davis's first electric period, circa 1969-75. Once again they take some of the fiercest and most revolutionary music of the 20th Century and manage to reimagine ...
Emily Hay: Like Minds
by Rex Butters
Emily Hay comes in off the bench to smack one over the center field wall on Like Minds. A ubiquitous presence on the West Coast improv scene as a pianist, vocalist, and flutist, Hay works as an entertainment copyright paralegal, radio DJ/host, promoter, and soundtrack producer and supervisor--when she's not playing with Vinny Golia, Jeff Kaiser, ...
Spooky Actions: Early Music
by Rex Butters
Bruce Arnold and John Gunther return with their Spooky Actions project, an inventive improvisational interpretation of musics not often tackled by jazz-based units. Having already rearranged the thorny intricacies of Webern and the soaring power of Native American melodies, here they address the haunting subtleties of early music, including variations on themes by Monteverdi, Dufay, and ...
Evan Parker: Evan Parker with Birds (for Steve Lacy)
by Rex Butters
Someone recently told me that they didn't care for outside music, because to really hear what's going on, you have to stop everything and sit inside it. On Evan Parker with Birds, the sax sounder invites you to sit inside an interdimensional aviary while he joins the conversation around him. Indispensable to those conversations, the duo ...
Peter Kowald: Silence and Files
by Rex Butters
Peter Kowald's posthumous stock continues to rise with the release of Silence and Files, a live recording from a German village solo concert circa June, 2001. The late, lamented virtuoso takes a steel-nerved tour of the bass as infinite possibility, sweeping the listener along on the promise of unfolding surprise. Kowald's approach to free playing burned ...
Vinny Golia: Music for Like Instruments: The Flutes
by Rex Butters
The prolific Vinny Golia returns with a highly anticipated flute record. As with the other entries in the Music for Like Instruments series, Golia enlists his unit from the cream of the local scene, then directs them in the astonishing textural and technical realizations of his unique musical vision. His muscular webs of sound avoid flutistic ...
Makanda Ken McIntyre: In the Wind
by Rex Butters
In the Wind adds a much-needed title to the sadly thin discography of tireless educator, wind master, innovator, composer, and African American music activist Makanda Ken McIntyre. The late McIntyre counted several remarkable classics among his recorded works, including Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures, performances with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Beaver Harris, and an appearance on ...
Henry Grimes Trio: Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival
by Rex Butters
From his return to performing at Los Angeles' World Stage to his triumphant residency in New York, Henry Grimes plays like he's making up for lost time. Captured here on his first recording in decades, Grimes performs live in Finland with two of the best and hardest working musicians around, David Murray on reeds and Hamid ...
Nate Morgan's Time Capsule
by Rex Butters
This month, history taps LA's pianistic prince on his shoulder for a blast from the past. Nate Morgan's first recording as leader, Journey to Nigrita, and an '80s date with lifelong friend and Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra luminary Jesse Sharps, find themselves reactivated on CD for the first time by Nimbus West records, both sessions' original ...
Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love: Dual Pleasure 2
by Rex Butters
Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen-Love return for another series of take-no-prisoner duets on Dual Pleasure 2, a sequel to their pairing last year. This two-disc set presents a collection of studio performances and a concert appearance. The studio work presents nine relatively short pieces that catalogue a wide range of mood and color. The live disc ...
