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The Fonda/Stevens Group: Forever Real
by John Kelman
Since emerging on the scene in the late '80s with trumpeter Dave Douglas and the Mosaic Sextet, pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, bassist Joe Fonda, and drummer Harvey Sorgen have all worked in a variety of contexts. Fonda was Anthony Braxton's bassist of choice in the mid-'90s; Stevens has worked in trios with Mark Whitecage and Dominic ...
The Fonda/Stevens Group: Forever Real
by Dennis Hollingsworth
John Cage said that music is all around us, ever present in the universe. Yet we do not always have the “ears" to decipher it. Forever Real offers the opportunity to exercise your “ears," presenting you with unique sounds that ebb and flow like the tide. This effort is the eighth recording from ...
Live At The Bunker
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: 1) For Us (Stevens) 2) Borrowed (Fonda) 3) Don
Parallel Lines
Label: Music & Arts
Released: 2000
Track listing: Parallel Lines; What Do You Think; Waltz; Quindutrilo; Quintalogue I; Quintalogue II; The Wild Thing; The Sadness of the Madness; Birdtalk.
The Fonda-Stevens Group: Live At The Bunker
by Glenn Astarita
“The Fonda-Stevens Group” is arguably one of the finest and hardest working modern jazz outfits in the business. And while “Leo Records” is synonymous with producing improvised, free – jazz and music that is largely unclassifiable, the label generally skirts the bleeding edge of what some refer to as – new music. Therefore, this quartet’s new ...
The Fonda/Stevens Group: Parallel Lines
by AAJ Staff
The Fonda/Stevens Group serves up a characteristically ambivalent sound on the 1997 studio record Parallel Lines. On one hand, the quintet deftly handles structured straight-ahead material; but on the other, it yields at the slightest opportunity to collective improvisation. Bassist Joe Fonda stands at the crux of the group--interacting with drummer Harvey Sorgen in a potently ...
The Fonda-Stevens Group: Evolution
by Robert Spencer
Reviewing can be difficult: there are an awful lot of discs out there that sound like all the rest. This ain't one of them. Evolution confirms that the Fonda-Stevens Group is one of the best-kept secrets in jazz. This fourth release from the quintet is one of the best showcases to date for five of the ...
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