Home » Search Center » Results: Steve McCall

Results for "Steve McCall"

Article: Live Review

Henry Threadgill: Very Very Threadgill 2014

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 7, 2014

Henry Threadgill Harlem Stage Gate House Very Very Threadgill New York, NY September 27-28, 2014 Henry Threadgill isn't one to repeat himself. In nearly 40 years of recording, he's only repeated a few compositions. So why would a retrospective of his work by a mere recapitulation? Very Very Threadgill--held ...

Article: Interview

Steve Swell: Unlimited Musical Possibilities

by Victor L. Schermer
July 28, 2014

"Free Jazz" and “Avant-Garde Jazz" are catch phrases often associated with musical pioneers such as Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor but more broadly refer to music that goes outside of the mainstream of melody, harmony, rhythm, and structure. When that happens, opinions and emotions abound. Reactions vary from disgust to excitement and enthusiasm, and it is ...

Article: Album Review

1032K: That Which Is Planted

Read "That Which Is Planted" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 13, 2014

The intrepid and original trio 1032K (the temperature at which the laws of physics no longer apply) is comprised of three versatile and singularly artful musicians who share a common creative vision. Their phenomenal That Which is Planted is a stimulating glimpse at this collaboration recorded live in Buffalo and Rochester, New York. The group radically ...

Article: Album Review

Frank Lacy: That Which Is Planted

Read "That Which Is Planted" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 3, 2014

The real reason the revolution will not be televised (with apologies to Gil Scott Heron) is that the sound of the revolution is free jazz. While those street fighting men are satisfied to throw rock music up against the wall, the real uprising is music of bands like 1032K. With roots in the streets and lofts ...

378

Article: Album Review

Boom Box: Jazz

by Henry Smith
August 2, 2011

Free jazz can have some fairly antisocial connotations. Too often, the term raises an undeserved fear in the uninitiated, as freedom can be scary. That hardly necessitates that it lack beauty, lyricism or intimacy, however; it simply means that those traits are arrived at by organic means rather than controlled ones. Few artists ...

726

Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010: Day 4, June 26, 2010

by John Sharpe
August 17, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Areni Agbabian, Lorenzo Sanguedolce, Go-Zee-Lah Reggie Nicholson, Borah Bergman, Ned Rothenberg Mark Helias, Tony Malaby, Charles GayleVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 26, 2010Saturday was a ...

758

Article: Profile

Introducing Anthony Braxton

by Robert Levin
July 17, 2010

[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Jazz & Pop Magazine, 1970]To anyone still questioning the validity of the systems and methods at which Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman arrived, I would first of all recommend that he listen more attentively to the work of those men. But I'd also suggest that he make ...

426

Article: Album Review

Chad Taylor: Circle Down

Read "Circle Down" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
October 20, 2009

With an insatiable appetite for music on the fringe, drummer Chad Taylor has been an active participant in the creative music environments of both Chicago and New York. In Chicago, he's been a member of Fred Anderson's trio, Sticks and Stones with Matana Roberts, and the Chicago Underground ensembles with Rob Mazurek. In New York, he's ...

273

Article: Multiple Reviews

Chico Freeman, Air, Walt Dickerson, George Cables: Buried Treasures Now On CD

by Chris May
July 1, 2009

Not to be confused with the Swedish trance and electronica label of the same name, the original Why Not label was an adventurous affair run by the Japanese businessman and jazz fan Masahiko Yuh for a brief but productive spell in the 1970s. With few contacts, but armed with an outstanding pair of ears, a cheque ...

Album

Air Song

By Henry Threadgill

Label: Octave Lab
Released: 1982
Track listing: Untitled Tango; Great Body Of The Riddle Or Where Were The Dodge Boys When My Clay Started To Slide; Dance Of The Beast; Air Song;