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Brian Settles/Central Union - Secret Handshake (2011)
There's something odd I noticed about this record from the opening moments: there's a piano on it. Why is that so bizarre you ask? I don't think there's ever been a piano before on an Engine Studios recording. Then again, there hasn't been a Brian Settles record before either. Last June, both of these firsts made ...
Steve Kuhn with Strings - Promises Kept (2004)
By Mark Saleski I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of jazz “with strings" records that 'work' for me. This is a somewhat mysterious phenomenon as jazz and improvised music is food to me. As necessary as oxygen. Along those lines, a good string quartet is a thing not only of ...
John Scofield Trio - Enroute (2004)
By Mark Saleski It was at a small Japanese restaurant north of Boston (or south of Concord, New Hampshire, depending on your level of Hub-centricness). Sushi. Never had it before. You read about things like this for years. Suddenly, it's your turn. Step right up, it's time to end the mystery. Tuna, soy, wasabi, ginger ... ...
Average White Band - Live at Montreux 1977 (2011)
Improperly named, the Average White Band was anything but. First off, one of the rhythm guys, at least by this point, wasn't white. Second, and this is far more important, they funked it up with a vigor and style that would never be confused with average. Initially formed in the late 1960s by Scots saxophonists Malcolm ...
Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (2011)
Finally. After more than four years of noting on this space his key contributions to other people's records, including list-topping performances led by David Torn, Chris Potter and Michael Formanek, we get to talk about a record actually led by one of the very top keyboardists working in downtown New York today. That's because a few ...
Spencer Bohren - Blackwater Music (2011)
Spencer Bohren, a Wyoming native now based in New Orleans, has travelled all over, yet still possesses a strong sense of place. He mounted an almost never-ending tour throughout the 1980s, but did so in an Airstream trailer with his wife and kids. In keeping, the spare and simply put Blackwater Music is a family recording ...
Roland Hanna - Colors from a Giant's Kit (2011)
Why wasn't Roland Hanna, a first-rate piano improviser and brilliant accompanist, more famous? Newly unearthed sessions for the IPO Recordings release Colors From a Giant's Kit, again first-rate, again brilliant, don't do anything to solve the riddle. You hear Bud Powell, perhaps the most obvious influence here, in Hanna's restless complexity. You hear Tommy Flanagan, in ...
John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymn (2011)
Productive and consistently good are two attributes that don't usually go together in the record making business, but it's been John Hiatt's hallmark for a while, now. Particularly at the start of the new century, from Crossing Muddy Waters (2000) on, Hiatt has made a shiny fresh disc of new tunes every year or so and ...
Mark Segger Sextet - The Beginning (2011)
Debut albums can often be fun to explore, since you're not just exploring the music, but the artist, too. They're funner still when the artist bolts out the gate with his/her own unique plan of attack instead of the timid, first steps of an artist who's still feeling his way around by mimicking his influences. Canadian ...
John Zorn - Masada Guitars (2003)
By Mark Saleski John Zorn's Masada is an interesting group. The way I've come to describe them is “Ornette Coleman-listens-to-klezmer." While that's not the only way to get there, it'll do. Pick any recording from the Masada series and you'll hear some fine interplay between Zorn's sax, the trumpet of Dave Douglas and Greg Cohen's bass. ...
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