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Sven Ake Johansson: Jazzbox
by Mark Corroto
Funny how listening to the five-CD Jazzbox by free jazz drummer Sven-Åke Johansson may remind you of the British punk rock band The Clash's first hit single “Train In Vain" (1980). Like Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, Johansson's career has been one that has worked to challenge the language of American music. In The Clash's case, ...
FUSK: Super Kasper
by Eyal Hareuveni
How does a band introduce freedom to its music? Does the band play free jazz or, to paraphrase saxophonist Joe Lovano, does it play its jazz free? Danish Drummer and leader of the Danish-German quartet FUSK, Kasper Tom Christiansen's, answer to this question is simple: “Who cares?" FUSK defines its own freedom, between contrapuntal springboard melodies, ...
Gerd Dudek: Day and Night
by John Eyles
When saxophonist Evan Parker started his Psi label back in late 2001, the label's second release--following his own solo album, Lines Burnt in Light (2001)--was the excellent 'Smatter (2002), by Gerd Dudek, the German saxophonist's first release under his own name. In January 2012, when Parker curated a week-long series of concerts at The Vortex in ...
Aki Takase / Rudi Mahall and the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio: London, UK, January 26, 2012
by John Sharpe
Aki Takase / Rudi Mahall and the Alexander von Schlippenbach TrioThe VortexLondonJanuary 26, 2012 The last week in January at north London's Vortex was given over to a mini-festival curated by saxophonist Evan Parker, genteelly entitled “Might I Suggest." Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, it showcased several German-based musicians rarely seen ...
Jason Stein Quartet: The Story This Time
by Nic Jones
The two horns, bass and drums quartet is becoming a commonplace grouping even though it hasn't quite reached the saturation point of the piano-bass-drums trio. A consequence of this instrumentation is the obvious decline in novelty value and, indeed, the ability to catch the ear, but this is a leader and group only too aware of ...
Aki Takase/ Han Bennink: Two For Two
by Mark Corroto
The pairing of these two international jazz musicians--Japanese pianist Aki Takase and Dutch drummer Han Bennink--for an hour's worth of duets yields a worthy tribute to both Thelonious Monk and free jazz. The pair's Two For Two might have been better inscribed as Instant Monk.Although Takase and Bennink only cover two Monk compositions, reed ...
Adam Linson: Figures and Grounds
by John Eyles
The personnel of double-bassist Adam Linson's System Quartet is so good that it sets the juices flowing even before a note of music has been heard. Figures and Grounds was recorded in January 2008, when Linson still lived in Berlin, and he took full advantage of his adopted city's resources, recruiting trumpeter Axel Dörner, bass clarinetist ...
Die Enttäuschung
By Rudi Mahall
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
1. Rocket in the Pocket (Mahall) - 4:29. 2. Tja (Dörner) - 2:39; 3. Uotenniw (Jennessen) - 3:54; 4. Wiener Schnitzel (Mahall) - 2:48;
5. Salty Dog (Roder) - 4:41; 6. For Quarts Only (Jennessen) - 4:24; 7.Tinnef (Dörner) - 5:24; 8. Tu es nicht
(Jennessen) - 3:21; 9. Nasses Handtuch (Mahall) - 4:03; 10. Tatsachlich (Dörner) - 5:50; 11. Rumba
Brutal (Mahall) - 4:48; 12. Hopfen (Jennessen) - 3:51; 13. Schienenersatzverkehr (Mahall) - 3:37; 14. Bruno (Jennessen).
Der Rote Bereich: 7
by Nic Jones
This trio of bass clarinet, guitar and drums knows a lot about achieving unity from a diversity of sources. Guitarist Frank Mobus is credited with the lion's share of the compositions, which ostensibly means he's more responsible for that unity than his fellow players even while it's the depth of their shared thoughts that really makes ...
Rudi Mahall - Axel Dörner - Jan Roder - Uli Jennessen: Die Enttäuschung
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci vuole una discreta dose di auto-ironia per varare un quartetto e battezzarlo “la delusione". L'idea bislacca è venuta a Rudi Mahall, Jan Roder, Axel Dörner e Uli Jennessen, cotitolari del progetto Die Enttäuschung (la delusione in tedesco), che giunge al traguardo dell'opera seconda dopo un esordio del 2007 uscito sempre su Intakt. A quale gioco ...
