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Mat Maneri Quartet: Blue Decco
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz violinist Mat Maneri has recently produced a string of recordings which document his technical fluency as well as his extended abstract vision. At this point, nobody doubts his proficiency or ability to rapidly develop new ideas. His recent duet record with Joe Morris, [soul search] took the abstraction of his playing to a new ...
William Parker Trio: Painter's Spring
by AAJ Staff
Call me biased, but I have yet to come across a William Parker recording I didn't like. The bassist has a unique talent, among players in the free jazz scene, of being able to bring together musicians from varying backgrounds and create a coherent sense of unity. Painter's Spring presents no exceptions to the “Parker Rule." ...
William Parker Trio: Painter'?s Spring
by Micah Holmquist
Bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake may be the most exciting team in jazz today. In recent years the two have worked together with a number of different leaders, including Fred Anderson and Peter Brotzmann, and in the process this duo has created trance inducing rhythms for concert goers and CD listeners alike. Many fans ...
William Parker Trio: Painter's Spring
by Mark Corroto
For avant-garde musician William Parker, the outside can be very introspective. This prolific, giant bassist is quite the gentle soul, not an image his work with free jazz musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Charles Gayle, and David Ware would lead you to believe. With Painter’s Spring and his co-led recordings with Matthew Shipp and ...
Spring Hill Jack: Treader
by Mark Corroto
I’ll argue that it is not a stretch to include electronic music into the jazz world. Like all creative endeavors, the DJ, as improviser, chooses his instrument, and makes something new. Spring Hill Jack, masters of drum‘n’bass, release of 68 Million Shades... (Island 1996) caught the attention of jazzbos with their use of strings, hornlines, and ...
Matthew Shipp: Pastoral Composure
by Mark Corroto
Creative and free jazz pianist Matthew Shipp knows how to draw traditional jazz and non-jazz listeners to his brand of music. This is his second release for Thirsty Ear, a label where you are more likely to find Henry Rollins than Sonny Rollins. Shipp utilizes the familiar as a device to attract attention, then holds it ...
Matthew Shipp Quartet: Pastoral Composure
by AAJ Staff
Matthew Shipp went into retirement earlier this year at age 38, after seven years of recording some of the most adventurous free jazz piano in history. Recently Thirsty Ear convinced him to come out of his self-imposed retirement and record a quartet album entitled Pastoral Composure. His new quartet features trumpeter Roy Campbell, bassist William Parker, ...
Coyle & Sharpe: Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks & Put-Ons
by AAJ Staff
If you didn’t hear it, you wouldn’t believe it. At most, the premise is scripted; all else is ad-libbed, at the spur of the moment. The comedians feed the straight lines; the humor comes from the befuddled bystanders. And they did this in the early ‘Sixties, a time “too inhibited" to permit such absurdity. You can’t ...
dna
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 1999
Track listing: When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Cell Sequence; Genetic Alphabet; DNA; Orbit; Mr. Chromosome; Amazing Grace.
Matthew Shipp: dna
by Mark Corroto
Matthew Shipp continues to document his progression as the anti-Marsalis. Eschewing swing for feeling, he leads his fans or is it his cult, down a much different path. His latest installment, recorded January of this year, is his thirty-second in the last eight years. At this pace, he'll replace David Murray as the album of the ...
