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Albert King: Talkin' Blues
by Todd S. Jenkins
Electric blues giant Albert King recorded this excellent live set in Chicago in February 1978. It’s unfortunate that no one documented the musicians with whom he was playing that night, but in the end King’s overpowering presence almost renders any other sounds moot. The sheer power of his guitar sound and commanding vocals dominated most every ...
David S. Ware String Ensemble: Threads
by Rex Butters
After successfully reinterpreting an untouchable Sonny Rollins classic and blasting into the electronic stratosphere with Corridors and Parallels, tenor sax titan David S. Ware debuts on Thirsty Ear with a string ensemble. His famous quartet returns with William Parker and Guillermo E. Brown as rhythm runners and Matthew Shipp as a sort of one-man ...
Tim Berne: The Sublime And
by Rex Butters
Tim Berne's Science Friction Band fuses a quartet of radical sound sculptors who leave fields of scorched earth in their wake. The one-time prot'g' of Julius Hemphill continues to forge daring jagged music that blurs borders and leaps genres. With repeated listenings patterns and structures reveal themselves between periods of intensely imaginative improvisations. Ironically, for such ...
Spring Heel Jack: Live
by Rex Butters
John Coxon and Ashley Wales, aka Spring Heel Jack, extend their Thirsty Ear tenure into a trilogy with the release of Live. Their heady blend of wild electronica and free jazz collided with American improvisers on Massed, and their European counterparts on Amassed. Members from each project join forces to form the live group with genre ...
Spring Heel Jack: Live
by Jerry D'Souza
Spring Heel Jack, in the persona of John Coxon and Ashley Wales, has found the right formula in marrying billowing electronics to traditional musical instruments. The equation has changed in terms of musicians from last year's Amassed , but the results have not been watered down. Gone are Kenny Wheeler and Paul Rutherford, and George Trebar ...
William Parker Violin Trio: Scrapbook
by AAJ Staff
More and more these days it seems that William Parker has been drawing from the wellspring of African American roots music. That may sound like a strange idea, considering that the bassist has long been floating on the fringes outside mainstream jazz, hardly an icon of accessibility. Some of his best work has been in settings ...
The Blue Series Continuum: Good And Evil Sessions
by AAJ Staff
It's been done before, but there's an ample amount of self-promotion involved with a group named after a record label--especially when that group only appears on that label, and when it spotlights the label's A&R man. In this particular case we're talking about Thirsty Ear's Blue Series imprint, home for its so-called Blue Series Continuum, prominently ...
Tim Berne's Science Friction Band: The Sublime And
by AAJ Staff
Whatever Tim Berne does in the studio always seems to end up magnified when it appears live on record. The central features of Berne's music--short, irregularly timed unison melodies, obliquely intertwined improvisational lines, and an edgy recklessness--all blow up in magnitude on The Sublime And. So does the size of the recording, which in this case ...
David S. Ware String Ensemble: Threads
by AAJ Staff
David S. Ware's juggernaut quartet picks up two (more) string players for Threads, expanding its sound in the direction of modern composition. The tenor saxophonist has always had an uncanny ability to utilize his instrument's full potential for emotional expression, which comes in the form of a thick, spiritualized gesture for the most part. Ecstatic enough ...
Various: Vision Fest
by Jerry D'Souza
The Vision Festival, held annually in New York, brings together some of the most forward thinking performers in jazz. Last year the festival was held mainly at The Center at Old St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. The performances at this venue make up the music on this CD and the accompanying DVD. There is a lot of ...
