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Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa ristampa di uno dei due LP incisi dal contraltista della Louisiana per la mitica ESP ci ripropone un free jazz d'annata, che dopo 44 anni non risulta per nulla invecchiato, capace tuttora di comunicare convinzione, urgenza espressiva, idee in quantità ed anche un buon livello tecnico. Staying on the Watch non è certo celebrato come ...
Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch
by Jerry D'Souza
The sixties were a time of turmoil and invention. Jazz was cast into several shapes by musicians who were willing to take chances, were not afraid to go against the grain, and believed in their vision to fathom and articulate new territory. Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons was among those who added to lore. He could fathom ...
Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons embraces music with his whole body, soul, mind and spirit; that much is clear from Staying on the Watch, recorded in August 1966 and reissued by ESP-Disk in 2010. Not everything that he did got its due: when Simmons came on the scene, he remained too close to Charlie Parker. When he ...
Sonny Simmons - Staying on the Watch (Esp)
Themes of urgency and vigilance embedded in the title to Sonny Simmons' ESP debut would dictate his music up through the present day. Simmons isn't one to suffer fools lightly and that intolerance for incompetence and hypocrisy cost him dearly at various times in his career. This auspicious set harkens to a stage prior to most ...
The Jazz Session #128: Dan Scofield on Sonny Simmons
Saxophonist Sonny Simmons is the subject of a new documentary now in production called Just A Guy Who Knows. The filmmakers, Dan Scofield and Mike Ercolini, have so far produced a 20-minute trailer and are raising funds to finish a 45-minute short film on Simmons. The saxophonist has lived a remarkable life, moving from his days ...
Duology + 2 at the London Jazz Festival
by John Sharpe
Duology + 2 Cafe OtoLondonNovember, 13, 2009 The opening night of the London Jazz Festival provided a rare opportunity to hear clarinetist Michael Marcus and trumpeter Ted Daniel--two seasoned, but unsung denizens of the New York scene--in the intimate surroundings of Dalston's Cafe Oto. Marcus made his debut with ...
Rasul Siddik: House of Art
by Clifford Allen
The idea of playing free within a set of modes or changes is certainly nothing new in the world of creative music, but it can still be striking when a musician talks about following in the footsteps of Charlie Parker or Max Roach as such. To hear music like that of Paris-based trumpeter Rasul Siddik and ...
Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues
by Mark Corroto
Without playing “name that tune," it is easy to mistake Jon Irabagon and Mike Pride's one song, 48-minute recording for one by Bill Laswell's Massacre. Same energy, same intensity, and volume, lots of volume. Funny, because this is an acoustic duo between saxophone and drums, while Massacre is a trio of drummer Charles Hayward, ...
Michael Marcus: Lotus Symphony
by John Sharpe
Improvisers who concentrate on the clarinet are a select bunch, perhaps something to do with the difficulty of navigating its tricky three registers--a far cry from the early days of jazz when the clarinet's cry was integral to Dixieland and swing ensembles. Multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus has only lately joined that coterie lost in the licorice stick's ...
Michael Marcus: Lotus Symphony, Free Within The Law & Duology
by Marc Medwin
Michael MarcusLotus SymphonyNot Two2008 The CosmosamaticsFree Within The LawNot Two2008 DuologyGolden AtomsSoul Note2008 Saxophonist and clarinetist Michael Marcus further establishes his versatility ...
