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Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer: Lingua Franca
by John Dworkin
Like what's being done by many creative musicians today, including Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, and Brian Blade's Fellowship, the music and approach on Lingua Franca are better described as searching than the more common burning. Peter Epstein, Brad Shepik, and Matt Kilmer trade more in water than fire. This is not a value judgement, just a ...
Patrick Zimmerli: Phoenix
by Eyal Hareuveni
On his sixth release, New York-based composer and saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli hybridizes the sounds of a jazz quartet with a string quartet, adding a gentle dose of samples and electronics and spicing it all up with popular and ethnic elements. Phoenix, Zimmerli's fourth release for the Vancouver based Songlines label, attempts to integrate these styles into ...
Dylan van der Schyff: The Definition of A Toy
by Jerry D'Souza
The title tune for The Definition of A Toy was written specifically for the album by reed multi-instrumentalist Michael Moore, who was inspired by an ad for a toy. The words that grabbed his attention were specifications that it be “open-ended, “interactive, and “encourage creativity. The members of this group inject those descriptives into every tune ...
Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer: Lingua Franca
by John Kelman
The term “world music gets bantered around frequently these days, referring (among many other things) to anyone who integrates any kind of ethnic folk music into a larger musical concept. But there's really nothing new about the idea of cross-cultural blends from a jazz perspective. Even before groups like Oregon, guitarist John McLaughlin's Shakti, and ECM ...
Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer: Lingua Franca
by Jerry D'Souza
One of the prime factors in assembling this project was that each musician should represent a distinct musical culture. Peter Epstein (saxophones), Brad Shepik (guitar), and Matt Kilmer (percussion) home in and open the doors to a world of fascinating rhythms. Jazz has often moved across various lands in search of its muse. This ...
Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer: Lingua Franca
by Dan McClenaghan
The music we call jazz--a broad and ill-defined category--embraces a wide array of sounds. Under the jazz umbrella you find bebop to electronica, ambient to power trio, turntablism to tablas, ferocious saxophones to Balkan folk music. That's a big part of the music's appeal. The art form is not static; it evolves and incorporates everything it ...
Benoit Delbecq Unit: Phonetics
by AAJ Staff
After two relatively stripped-down efforts, the duo Dice Thrown (Songlines, 2002) and solo Nu-Turn (Songlines, 2003), Parisian pianist Benoit Delbecq returns with a quintet for Phonetics, taking full advantage of the extended range of his group--stylistically, timbrally, and texturally. Delbecq's music draws from several diverse traditions, including the often counterintuitive constructs of modern classical music, the ...
Benoit Delbecq Unit: Phonetics
by Dan McClenaghan
What a wonderful band that pianist Benoit Delbecq has put together! This finely synchonized unit creates an exceptional ensemble sound with its dark, moody tones and circuitous melodies, playing music that sounds as if it were conceived in a cave, in murky shadows and cool and dry air. An unusual timbral mix--viola and tenor saxophone--sets the ...
Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion
by Glenn Astarita
Various band members contribute compositional frameworks as a backdrop of sorts for Rinde Eckert's lyricism and recitations on this idyllically focused jazz work. And it's drummer Jerry Granelli's brainchild as he lays down the rhythms for a potpourri of acoustic-electric tunes structured upon medium-tempo rhythms and jazzy dreamscapes. Eckert's likeable recitals are cleanly delivered ...
Benoit Delbecq Unit: Phonetics
by John Kelman
With an approach blending hypnotic rhythms and free-flowing improvisation with a new music sensibility that examines more oblique and mathematically precise melodies, Benoit Delbecq has already gained a certain degree of notoriety in his native France for his work with prepared piano and his four previous Songlines releases. This time around he gathers an international cast, ...
