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Rob Mazurek Quintet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Area Sismica - Forlì - 27.2.2010 Rob Mazurek è stato uno dei protagonisti di quella scena musicale di Chicago che, fra la seconda metà degli anni '90 e il decennio appena trascorso, ha realizzato una sorta di fusione fra il jazz più avventuroso e il rock desideroso di spingersi oltre i propri confini ordinari; una fusione ...
February 2010
by AAJ Staff
Jack DeJohnette BirdlandNew York, NY January 5, 2010When Jack DeJohnette hires double-neck guitarist David “Fuze" Fiuczynski and acclaimed altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa as the frontline in his new quintet, he's probably signaling an intention to shred. The legendary drummer did exactly that when he debuted the new Jack DeJohnette Group at ...
Chad Taylor & Rob Mazurek: Chicago Underground Duo
by David Adler
Chicago Underground DuoBoca NegraThrill Jockey2009 Rob MazurekSound IsDelmark2009 Chad TaylorCircle Down482 Music2009 No account of American jazz in the '00s would be ...
Sound Is
By Rob Mazurek
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: As if an Angel Fell from the Sky; The Earthquake Tree; Dragon Kites; The Star Splitter; The Hill; Le Baiser (The Kiss); The Lightning Field; Cinnamon Tree; The Dream Rocker; Beauty Wolf; Microraptagonfly; Aphrodite Rising; The Field; Nora Grace.
Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown: Varmint
by Mark Corroto
Jason Adasiewicz's quintet Rolldown, has been together since 2004, and Varmint, its second release, again invites you into Mr. Peabody's “wayback machine" (from The Rocky And Bullwinkle Show of the 1960s) to explore ancient history with a modern ear. That ancient history is the 1960's New Thing, and our explorers are armed with the knowledge of ...
John Funkhouser, Angelica Sanchez, David Arner: 3 x Piano 3
by Mark Corroto
It's unclear why anyone would desire the end result, but as the saying goes, “there are many ways to skin a cat." Setting aside the vivisection angle for a moment, there are countless approaches to the classic jazz piano trio. Ever since ragtime, boogie-woogie and stride pianists caught the attention of popular music listeners, jazz pianists ...
Bill Dixon Paintings, Lithographs and Drawings Now Featured at AAJ Gallery
Trumpeter-composer Bill Dixon (b. October 5, 1925) might, over the past year or so, be getting much-deserved notoriety in the music press for his orchestral suites (Seventeen Musicians in Search of a Sound; Tapestries for Small Orchestra) and collaboration with Rob Mazurek and the Exploding Star Orchestra. However, his visual art--while adorning the covers of numerous ...
Chad Taylor: Circle Down
by Troy Collins
In-demand indie rock session player (Sam Prekop, Iron and Wine) and co-founder of the Chicago Underground with Rob Mazurek, drummer Chad Taylor has quickly become an indispensable part of the New York scene since his relocation from Chicago in 2000. His recurrent collaborations with Cooper-Moore, Jemeel Moondoc, and Marc Ribot feature his talents in a wide ...
Chad Taylor: Circle Down
by Mark F. Turner
With an insatiable appetite for music on the fringe, drummer Chad Taylor has been an active participant in the creative music environments of both Chicago and New York. In Chicago, he's been a member of Fred Anderson's trio, Sticks and Stones with Matana Roberts, and the Chicago Underground ensembles with Rob Mazurek. In New York, he's ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown: Varmint
by Troy Collins
Varmint is the sophomore follow up to Rolldown (482 Music, 2008), the self-titled debut of vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's quintet. Inspired by the avant-garde innovations of such late 1960s Blue Note recording artists as Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Jackie McLean, and Grachan Moncur III, Adasiewicz continues to explore the tenuous divide between inside and outside ...
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