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François Houle: Insider Listening that Makes You Clever
by Kerilie McDowall
Canadians and local Vancouverites have been in awe at BC, Canada's prestigious regular rising star clarinetist François Houle's international ranking status. Houle creates brilliantly fascinating compositions and such clever, innovative work. He has released seven albums as a leader from 2022-2023 and has four more plus on the way. Incredibly he will have released 11 albums ...
Ethnic Embraces
by Mike Jacobs
For the fourth installment in the continuing BackTracks series, we take a look at some notable releases that infuse their jazz with stylistic spice indigenous to different regions of the world—namely North Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Balkans. As BackTracks was on a hiatus of sorts (and because these recordings seemed to emerge in matched ...
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2019, Part 1-2
by Mike Chamberlain
Part 1 | Part 2Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16-19, 2019 There was a lot of positive buzz leading up to the 35th edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. On paper, the schedule looked very strong. Looking back over past ...
Wayne Horvitz: The Snowghost Sessions & Those Who Remain
by Doug Collette
Since coming to some renown in New York City during the Eighties and Nineties, Wayne Horvitz has developed a career almost as eclectic as it is esoteric. Performer, composer, educator and entrepreneur comprise just a few of the roles he has assumed in near-fifty years of audacious enterprise and these dual releases vividly illustrates the range ...
Four Artists Of The Jazz Clarinet Renaissance
by Dan Bilawsky
Since the jazz clarinet never really died, renaissance--or rebirth--may not be the term that best describes what's happening to the instrument in the twenty-first century jazz universe; it is, however, a pretty good one word synopsis. The licorice stick was there at or near the start, tooting along next to the trumpet and ...
Songlines
By Manu Codjia
Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Lubyes; Jamin'; Ritournelle Part I; Ritournelle Part II; Motion Spivari; N'Yack Stuff Bass Intro; N'Yack Stuff Suite; Al Blade; Nage Mute Prologue; Nage Mute Part I; Nage Mute Drums Interlude; Nage Mute Part II; Nage Mute Epilogue; Roc Ferek; Nicolas' Clock; Free Al.
Heinrich von Kalnein: Songlines
by C. Michael Bailey
The last time saxophonist Heinrich von Kalnein crossed this writer's path was directing the band on Joys & Desires. In quite a departure from that outing German expatriate cum Austrian von Kalnein enters the more confined climate of the quintet, expanding the format with wide open arrangements of spatially conceived original compositions.Heinrich von Kalnein's ...
Manu Codjia: Songlines
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Electric guitarists in jazz sort themselves into two camps. Do you follow the magisterial Charlie Christian, and favor clean lines that a horn player might play, using electricity the way Billie Holiday used a microphone to make subtle nuances more easily heard? Or do you follow the arguably less gifted (but equally influential) Johnny Smith, embracing ...
Songlines
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Volunteered Slavery; I'll Find My Way; Crow Jane; Sahib Teri
Bandi - Maki Madni; Chevrolet; Sailing On; Revolution; I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And
Crazy; All I Do; Mahjoun; I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free); This Sky.
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