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Erik Friedlander - Bonebridge (2011)
Since Tom Cora's tragic passing in 1998, there might not have been a more adventurous cellist on this planet than Erik Friedlander. Friedlander, however, is no Cora, who was at his best at the most freakish sides of jazz and rock. Friedlander seems to follow his muse more often than not to just about everywhere else. ...
Jon Anderson - Survival and Other Stories (2011)
Too often, it was like Jon Anderson didn't want to make a solo record that sounded too much like Yes. As interesting as these sideroads no doubt were, they gave few clues to how his own voice fit into the wider topography of the band. And they often were so idiosyncratic that only the deepest, more ...
Dave Douglas - Moonshine (2007)
By Tom Johnson I really admire trumpeter Dave Douglas. Not only is he world-renowned as one of jazz's best, he has taken the high and difficult road by setting out to create his own little sanctuary for musicians, a label in Greenleaf Music where they get treated fairly and where listeners can feel the same. My ...
Tim Berne, Jim Black, Nels Cline - The Veil (2011)
Three of the larger figures in the downtown New York avant jazz scene, Jim Black, Nels Cline and Tim Berne, joined forces a couple of years ago to form a trio that find the intersection where the three thrive in. That area of overlap falls in the hinterland where jazz dares not tread because it's too ...
One Track Mind: Richard Nelson Large Ensemble, "Strive" (2011)
In most big bands, the guitarist functions as nothing more than a member of an expanded rhythm section—and for a while it seems like Richard Nelson (even though it's his band, and all) had fallen into the same role on his forthcoming album, Pursuit. Then comes “Strive," the final large-ensemble piece. As the track begins, an ...
Solomon King - Medicine (2011)
Over the course of the striking, stripped-down Medicine, former Detroit autoworker Solomon King returns to that moment when the blues moved inexorably away from the uplift that defined gospel music, and ultimately toward rock 'n' roll and then hip hop. The blues sought, at first, to define every-day concerns, but there were no easy answers. As ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba -- Fe' ... Faith (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Intense and beautiful, Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's new Fe' ... Faith, is this meditative wonder. Like the earth making its inevitable yearly circle, Rubalcaba returns time after time to themes and thoughts—but never approaches things exactly the same twice. Across 15 solo piano pieces, he eventually smashes through barriers between jazz, classical and ...
Ben Folds - Speed Graphic (2003)
By Tom Johnson Ben Folds opened this EP (Speed Graphic refers to the camera seen on the sleeve) with the Cure's “In Between Days." While staying true to the Cure's sound, he managed to inject an extra little dose of his hopeful optimism into the song: It's just a quality of his soft, youthful voice that ...
Honey Ear Trio - Steampunk Serenade (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Listening to Allison Miller's superb CD from last year Boom Tic Boom, I appreciated how it covered a lot of ground within advanced modern jazz, helped along by such sympathetic supporting players in this piano jazz trio. But that album still left me wondering where this ace drummer, composer and bandleader was ...
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity of Miracles (2011)
By Tom Johnson It was only a matter of time before Robert Fripp came out of hiding again. Notoriously reclusive, the unusual guitarist seems to disappear just when things seem to get really interesting, such as a few years ago when a new incarnation of King Crimson began gelling on stage as the 1980s lineup of ...
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