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Veryan Weston/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Mercury Concert
by Robert Spencer
This 1998 live date is a superb example of the possibilities of free improvisation by a trio. This music of striking melodic depth, and is by no means simply a piano performance with a supporting cast. As is often ballyhooed but less often delivered in free music, these players are equal, and each contributes a tremendous ...
Karlton Hester: Musicism for Your Imagination: Alive at Barnes Hall
by Robert Spencer
Karlton Hester is an assistant professor of music at Cornell University, where this disc was recorded. He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with a particularly affinity for the flute, although he is equally at home on the tenor sax (as well as the soprano, which he plays less often, and the synthesizer, which he plies like a ...
The Clarinet Trio: Oct. 1, '98
by Robert Spencer
The Clarinet Trio is made up of Jürgen Kupke (clarinet), Gebhard Ullmann (bass clarinet) and Theo Nabicht (bass clarinet). Although this somewhat straitened instrumental lineup would seem limited, these three musicians have tremendous stylistic ability and virtuosic breadth. On these 19 brief pieces they move through a world of clarinet approaches - indeed, often they do ...
Ellery Eskelin & Han Bennink: Dissonant Characters
by Robert Spencer
“And Han, to his audible pleasure, discovers a rare, fully equipped improviser he can't scare off, wear out, bury or give the slip." So says Kevin Whitehead in the liner notes to this little gem, which consists of ten tracks - ranging in time from twenty-four seconds to almost ten minutes - and all featuring an ...
Jon Lloyd: Four and Five
by Robert Spencer
Alto and soprano saxophonist Jon Lloyd explains about this release that “the compositions for this group were designed to be played with less of a pulse-driven approach than my earlier work with the Jon Lloyd Quartet - the ebb and flow of the music takes place organically according to the direction each performer wishes to take." ...
Robben Ford: Sunrise
by Robert Spencer
Sunrise is aptly named, for this 1972 recording captures Robben Ford's stinging blues guitar at the dawn of his career. It contains the hallmarks of Ford's now long-familiar style: non-stop solos of brisk funk logic; clean and exquisitely formed lines; and a monster groove. There's also quite a bit of vocal work on this one: by ...
Sonny Rollins: The Complete Prestige Recordings
by Robert Spencer
1999 AFIM Indie Awards (Association for Independent Music) nominee for best Mainstream Jazz recording: Sonny Rollins's Global Warming. Lifetime Achievement Award winner at the Second Annual Jazz Awards, held in New York in mid-June: tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Top tenor saxophonist in Down Beat's 47th annual International Critics Poll: Sonny Rollins. Subject of two forthcoming books: ...
Roger Smith: Extended Plays
by Robert Spencer
Roger Smith plays a Spanish guitar, upon which he improvises freely, somewhat in the manner of Derek Bailey, who was for a time his teacher. Yet Extended Plays illustrates that Smith is no imitator, but a freely improvising guitarist with very much his own style. Like Bailey, Smith avoids grooves of any kind, but he is ...
Ye Ren: Another Shining Path
by Robert Spencer
Have you ever heard William Parker play bass? If so, are you still unconvinced of his mastery? If Another Shining Path won't convince you, your ears are tragically closed. Take the very first track, “A Fork in the Road." Listen to how Parker weaves bass figures in and out and around the thoughtful alto of Gary ...
Various Artists: The Best of Acid Jazz: In the Mix
by Robert Spencer
Yes, yasss, dig him, it's DJ Smash, bringing you a nonstop party of Acid Jazz, that funky stepchild of the r&b funk pioneered in the Sixties by Lee Morgan, Ike Quebec, and so many others. “Everybody Loves the Sunshine" kicks off the jamfest is a vocal number from The Soul Society, featuring Roy Ayers. It's worthy ...
