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Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts
by Troy Collins
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has nurtured the talents of Chicago's most inventive artists since 1965. Drummer Mike Reed, the venerable organization's recently appointed Vice Chairman, repays the favor on Empathetic Parts, with his longstanding quintet, Loose Assembly, by welcoming one of the Association's original founders, multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell, as featured guest ...
Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: Far Side
by AAJ Italy Staff
A settant'anni Roscoe Mitchell continua a essere una delle figure più originali della scena afroamericana e i suoi lavori per organico allargato lontani dall'Art Ensemble ne confermano tutta la geniale condotta espressiva: è certamente il caso della Note Factory, ottetto di coppie imperfette [a due batterie, due contrabbassi e due pianoforti si affiancano infatti le ance ...
Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: Far Side
by Hrayr Attarian
Roscoe Mitchell's Far Side, with its theatrical quality, could easily function as a soundtrack to a modernist play. The beginning of the first and longest piece, “Far Side/Cards/Far Side," is reminiscent of the works of 20th century composers like Alfred Schnitke and Arvo Pärt, in the ominous sea of notes pouring out of the dual pianos ...
Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: Far Side
by John Kelman
It's been over a decade since reed and woodwind multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell--a veteran of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which he helped establish in the mid-1960s, in addition to co-founding the groundbreaking Art Ensemble of Chicago, around the same time--released Nine to Get Ready (ECM, 1999), with his Note Factory group. Far ...
Roscoe Mitchell – David Wessel: Contact
by AAJ Italy Staff
Le sessioni del compositore David Wessel e del sassofonista Roscoe Mitchell contenute nel doppio CD-DVD “Contact" distano parecchio tempo (in termini musicali) l'una dall'altra: l'una ha avuto luogo presso l'IRCAM di Parigi come parte del festival Résonances il 20 ottobre 2004, l'altra al Center for New Music dell'UC di Berkeley il 13 e 14 ottobre 2002. ...
Introducing Anthony Braxton
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Jazz & Pop Magazine, 1970]To anyone still questioning the validity of the systems and methods at which Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman arrived, I would first of all recommend that he listen more attentively to the work of those men. But I'd also suggest that he make ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 1-3, June 24-26, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 Mikko Innanen & InnkvisitioEtienne Charles and Folklore / Bill Frisell's Beautiful DreamersBill Frisell 858 Quartet TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 24-26, 2010 Back in April 2010, when the TD Ottawa International ...
Muhal Richard Abrams / Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum
by Kurt Gottschalk
Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell are arguably the two figures most central to the birth and rearing of the seminal '60s collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The organization was borne out of Abrams' Experimental Band and the first standing group to emerge from it was the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble ...
Keefe Jackson and Aram Shelton: Seeing You See and Two Cities
by Clifford Allen
The city of Chicago continues to find itself in a jazz renaissance well into the waxing years of the 21st century--a status that many of America's cities can't easily lay claim to. With the pedigrees of individual improvisers and composers like reedman Ken Vandermark and flutist Nicole Mitchell well established in the 1990s, a slightly younger ...
Bare Bones Improvisation: A Challenge Rewarded
by Mark Corroto
Mood, ambiance and atmosphere are the basic building blocks of music making. Taken at its essence, music is made up of these three components. In generating sound--especially experimental, improvised sound--getting to the essence is a major victory for musicians. And, although it may appeal only to the adventurous listener, there is an importance to bare bones ...
