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Joelle Leandre / George Lewis: Transatlantic Visions
by Stuart Broomer
Recorded at Vision Festival XIII in 2008, this pairing of French bassist Joelle Léandre and American trombonist George Lewis brings together two of the most gifted and committed musicians in improvised music. They've been acquainted since the '70s and distinguished themselves as duo improvisers in the best company. (Among their individual highlights are the former's duets ...
Ornette Coleman: Town Hall 1962
by Stuart Broomer
When Ornette Coleman promoted this concert in December 1962, he was already in the midst of a long withdrawal from the public stage. Until the Town Hall event, his 1962 performances had consisted of a single concert and a week at the Jazz Gallery six months previously. Further, he hadn't recorded in a studio since March ...
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um: 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition
by Stuart Broomer
This special edition marks the 50th anniversary of bassist Charles Mingus' 1959 Columbia masterpiece, one of the great records in a year that included Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia), John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atlantic) and Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic). The Legacy edition is a two-CD set that also includes Mingus' ...
Steve Kuhn: Life's Backward Glances
by Stuart Broomer
Pianist Steve Kuhn recently explored the beginnings of his musical career on Mostly Coltrane (ECM, 2009). On this three-CD set, ECM commemorates Kuhn's mid-career work with reissues of three LPs recorded between 1974 and 1979. Life's Backward Glances is aptly titled and not just because two of the three albums conclude with Kuhn's song of the ...
Thelonious Monk Tributes: Bobby Broom & Dominic Duval/Jimmy Halperin
by Stuart Broomer
Bobby Broom Plays for Monk Origin Records 2009 Jimmy Halperin/Dominic Duval Monk Dreams No Business 2009 There's something almost contradictory about Monk compositions: they're insistently individualistic, built on odd ...
Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane
by Stuart Broomer
When John Coltrane left Miles Davis' band at the end of 1959, the first working quartet he formed had Steve Kuhn on piano for gigs at the Jazz Gallery over the first three months of 1960. Here Kuhn pays deeply affecting tribute to Coltrane and his music with Joe Lovano on tenor and tarogato and Kuhn's ...
Paul Bley: Barrage
by Stuart Broomer
At times circumstance conspires to hide a masterpiece: it may be the artist's lack of reputation; perhaps it doesn't resemble his more typical works or it's just overshadowed by more prominent or better promoted music. Paul Bley's Barrage is such a work. Produced in 1964 when most of the band was unknown, it's a singularly non-lyrical ...
Sun Ra
by Stuart Broomer
Sun Ra and his Arkestra New Horizons Fresh Sound 2009 Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold ESP Disk 2009 Sun Ra Live at the Electric Circus/Newport Jazz Festival ...
Nels Cline: Coward
by Stuart Broomer
Few guitarists cover the sheer range of Nels Cline, moving between genres from folk and rock, as a member of Wilco, to free jazz, with Vinny Golia and Gregg Bendian among others, to his own highly eclectic projects that impinge on all of these categories. Coward is a solo record, in the sense ...
Marc Ribot: El General & Italian Doc Remix
by Stuart Broomer
John Zorn El General Tzadik 2009 Marco Cappelli Italian Doc Remix Itinera 2008 Marc Ribot has an unusual combination of talents: a strong musical personality and an ...
