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Rodrigo Amado: The Abstract Truth
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, bassist Kent Kessler, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is an international trio featuring players from Portugal, United States and Norway, respectively. But on its second recording, The Abstract Truth, the assemblage speaks the same language; its mother tongue being hard-hitting, concise improvisation. This disc follows the Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), the trio's ...
The Fonda/Stevens Group: Memphis
by Troy Collins
The 11th album of their storied 18 year career, Memphis is only the fourth studio recording of the venerable Fonda/Stevens Group, making this release a delightful surprise. Co-led by bassist Joe Fonda and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, the veteran quartet is rounded out by trumpeter Herb Robertson and drummer Harvey Sorgen. Boasting a collective resume that ...
Taylor Ho Bynum / Spider Monkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams
by John Sharpe
That this is cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum's fourth leadership date so far this year speaks volumes about his growing stature as a bandleader, writer and virtuoso instrumentalist. Justly known as one of celebrated composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton's foremost interpreters over the last decade, Bynum's star now shines even more brightly in the creative music firmament, thanks to ...
Bill Dixon: In Medias Res
by Clifford Allen
Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon is one of those rare figures in creative music who was both there as it took its initial steps and currently remains at the forefront of contemporary improvisation. In the last two years, he has directed or co-led orchestral configurations and recorded and performed with hand-picked small groups of international renown. ...
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble The Vortex London, England August 10, 2009 If you can judge a person by the company he keeps, then pianist Alexander Hawkins must be someone to watch given his musical associations, both actual and virtual. The packed house at the Vortex certainly thought so, confounding Hawkins' ...
Bob Florence Limited Edition / Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band / Dana Legg Stage Band / John Burnett Swing Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Bob Florence Limited Edition Legendary MAMA 2009 “Legendary" is a word that is often misused and shamelessly over-used, and in this case entirely appropriate. Even though composer / arranger / pianist Bob Florence is no longer with us, and wasn't in the studio when his Limited Edition recorded ...
TD Canada Trust 2009 Vancouver International Jazz Festival
by A. Henkin
TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz FestivalVancouver, CAJune 26th-July 5th Probably one of the few places on the planet not deep in mourning for recently deceased pop star Michael Jackson was Vancouver, on the western coast of Canada, or at least the parts of the city given over to the 24th annual TD ...
The Thirteenth Assembly: (un)sentimental
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
The Thirteenth Assembly was founded as a touring collective that appeals to promoters' predilection for booking multiple acts on a single night. Guitarist Mary Halvorson, violist Jessica Pavone, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and drummer Tomas Fujiwara have longstanding duo and trio permutations and to end their concerts, they convene as a quartet and have forged a ...
Positive Catastrophe: Garabatos Volume One
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il disco di questa band, in cui spicca in veste di “co-leader" la figura di Taylor Ho Bynum, compositore e trombettista collaboratore tra gli altri di Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor e Bill Dixon, inizia con un brano veloce, “Plena Organisation," in 2/4, quasi folk, musica che apre nuovi spazi all'immaginazione, e in cui ogni strumento cerca ...
Taylor Ho Bynum and Harris Eisenstadt in London: A Second Anglo/American Convergence
by John Sharpe
Convergence Quartet The Vortex London, U.K. April 27, 2009 Last sighted on these shores in the autumn of 2006, the success of the Convergence Quartet 's inaugural meeting has now borne the fruit of a further tour for cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Harris Eisenstadt, and the up-and-coming English pairing ...
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