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The Artist Formerly Known as Avant-Garde!
by AAJ Staff
This article was submitted on behalf of Roswell Rudd. Back in the 1960's, avant-garde was one of the terms used to categorize the new music. Because I was coming from Dixieland Jazz into this new music, the term struck me as strange and a little inappropriate. My understanding in those days was that the term was ...
Roswell Rudd: MALIcool
by Elliott Simon
West African Manden music is no stranger to Western ears, and much has been made of its close similarity to American blues. On Malicool, Roswell Rudd transports his singular trombone to West Africa for an adventurous session with Malian kora player Toumani Diabate, who is among the world’s best on the instrument. The kora is a ...
Live in New York
By Roswell Rudd
Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Keep Your Heart Right; Acute Motelitis; Steam; Pazuzu; We Are the Blues; Ujamma; Bamako; Slide by Slide; D.
Roswell Rudd / Archie Shepp: Live in New York
by John Stevenson
The year was 1994. The venue: the Eilat Red Sea Jazz Festival. Hundreds of sweltering Jazz aficionados waited in a huge converted cargo shed to witness reedman Archie Shepp and his quartet--a marquee coup for the Israeli festival. When Shepp swaggered onto the stage, the more discerning members of the audience (including this reviewer) could scarcely ...
Broad Strokes
By Roswell Rudd
Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2000
Track listing: Change of Season; Sassy & Dolphy; Almost Blue; Stokey; Coming on the Hudson; God Had a Girlfriend; All Too Soon/Way Low; Theme from BABE; The Light; Change of Season.
Roswell Rudd: Broad Strokes
by AAJ Staff
Ballad records are always a risky proposition. It takes a certain degree of finesse to pull off an hour of slow-tempo, melodic pieces without sending the listener into boredom. On Broad Strokes, trombonist Roswell Rudd takes the plunge, with mixed results. Rudd spent the '60s playing with free jazz luminaries like Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and ...
