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Spring Heel Jack: Live
by AAJ Staff
Spring Heel Jack, which has spanned a remarkably diverse range of sounds since its coming out in 1995, recently turned toward jazz (or post-jazz) improvisation as a medium for expression. John Coxon and Ashley Wales made one of the greatest electronica records of all time in Busy Curious Thirsty (Trade 2/Island, 1997), but over the course ...
Various: VisionFest- VisionLive
by Rex Butters
The 8th Annual Vision Festival began on May 20 in New York City, and just in time to show the world what it’s missing, Thirsty Ear released a collection of luminous performances from the previous year's event. Self-described as “art with a most decidedly disciplined disregard for tradition and boundaries,” these proceedings were last documented on ...
The Blue Series Continuum: Good and Evil Sessions
by Farrell Lowe
Upon first listen, this disc might seem a bit lackluster and a step back from the forefront of cutting- edge jazz that Thirsty Ear has recently delved into with great success... then further investigation reveals its emotional depth and simon-pure nature. The Good and Evil Sessions represents a collaboration between the production team of Good and ...
Spring Heel Jack: Live
by Farrell Lowe
From the opening salvo of distorted electric guitar, there is little doubt that the latest release from Spring Heel Jack will be nothing short of a wild bundle of scabrous love. While this album consists of only two live pieces, both over thirty-five minutes long, this notorious group of individuals cover a vast emotional and musical ...
Albert King: Talkin' Blues
by AAJ Staff
There's little need for explanation when it comes to Albert King. Though he never had a profile near that of B.B., the “other" King, he has been incredibly influential on generations of blues musicians. Like fellow lefty Jimi Hendrix, he played a right-handed guitar upside-down and backwards. More than most blues musicians, he lingered on stretched ...
Various Artists: VisionFest:VisionLive
by Andrey Henkin
The Vision Festival has little in common with its more visible New York City brethren. Small and independently organized, it functions as an umbrella under which progressive New York musicians can come together in front of sympathetic audiences. During the 2001 incarnation, an ambitious series of recordings was undertaken to capture some of ...
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
by James Taylor
The buzz on Matthew Shipp's new recording was that it would be his greatest, most accessible, album to date. Accessible Equilibrium most certainly is, but greatness and accessibility for a free jazz artist should rarely be uttered in the same breath. The latest addition to Thirsty Ear Records' Blue Series, ...
Antipop Consortium: Antipop Vs. Matthew Shipp
by James Taylor
Is it hip-hop or is it jazz? A revolutionary new ideal or a sound versed in tradition? Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp is a radical union between New York City's finest avant-garde hip-hop trio and free jazz's most important young pianist--and it's better than anything those phonies from Philly have put out in a decade.Antipop ...
DJ Spooky: Dubtometry
by Farrell Lowe
This is such an exciting time in the world of modern jazz. We are in the midst of a new wave of fusion where jazz artists unabashedly embrace current pop and world music sound forms. When Miles Davis went electric in the Sixties, it caused quite a stir; I can only hope this new brand of ...
DJ Spooky: Dubtometry
by AAJ Staff
Formally Dubtometry represents a remix of 2002's bold jazz-tronic record Optometry. Indeed, the common denominator remains DJ Spooky, who produced this 17-piece set. But the comparisons between hip-hop and jazz, which Spooky so effectively blended on last year's record, end right there. It might be jazzy, but this is a straight-up hip-hop record, no matter how ...
