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Pete Mills: The Anatomy Of A Jazz Release
by Mark Corroto
I'm here to tell you that everything you thought about the making of a modern jazz records is wrong. The notion that there are talent agents selling concepts to record companies—wrong. That bands work on tunes, perfecting them for months before entering the studio—wrong. That jazz musicians make money from records—again, wrong. I had ...
Tom Rainey: Obbligato
by Troy Collins
Tom Rainey has been a fixture in New York's Downtown scene since the early '90s. The stalwart drummer's current efforts have found him expanding his purview, collaborating with a new generation of creative improvisers. Working on original material with young Brooklyn-based artists like Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson, Rainey continues experiments in form and structure that ...
Stream The Best Jazz Of 2013 On AccuJazz.com
Jazz fans spent much of the past month poring over dozens of “Best of 2013” lists, left only to wonder what the vaunted music actually sounded like. To satisfy curious listeners and highlight the excellent music, AccuJazz Internet radio has created a “Best Jazz of 2013” channel playing the most critically-acclaimed jazz albums released last year. ...
Robert Bush’s Best Releases of 2013
by Robert Bush
2013 proved to be another banner year for recorded jazz--so much wonderful music--no one could argue that this is a dying art form. These ten recordings stood out in particular. Mark Dresser Quintet Nourishments (Clean Feed) Keith Jarrett Somewhere (ECM) Wadada Leo ...
Hammered
By Tim Berne
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2013
Track listing:
01. Frisner; 02. Wilson Philip; 03. Dead Battery; 04. Hammered; 05. Limitations; 06. Learned from Jamie Stewart; 07. Animal Collection; 08. This Might Be a Fade Out.
Shadow Man
By Tim Berne
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Son of Not So Sure; Static; Psalm; OC/DC; Socket; Cornered (Duck).
Xiu Xiu: Nina
by Mark Corroto
Like a horrendous and gruesome accident you pass on the expressway, listening to the Jamie Stewart's covers of Nina Simone's music is both repulsive and abhorrent, but ultimately impossible to escape. Seems you just have to listen. Stewart and his avant-garde group Xiu Xiu probably have never had their discs filed in ...
Take Five With Noel Akchote
by AAJ Staff
Meet Noel Akchote: Trained from the age of eight, Noel Akchote debuted as a guitarist in 1990. Noel Akochote has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians like Henri Texier, Louis Sclavis, Daniel Humair, Jacques Thollot, Sam Rivers, Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Firth, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Tim Berne, and George Lewis. Later in ...
Matt Mitchell: Fiction
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Ches Smith align for a rather remarkable program as Fiction offers additional credence to the respective artist's increased stature in the progressive jazz community and A-list session status. Among their extensive resumes of group affiliations, the instrumentalists are members of saxophonist Tim Berne's Snake Oil group. Mitchell originally composed ...
Memories in Motian
by Zeno De Rossi
Soon after hearing about Paul Motian's passing (November 22, 2011) I felt the urge to delve (again) into his music. Later on, inspired by a moving writing by Ellery Eskelin (published on his website and reproduced below, by his kind permission), I thought it would have been interesting to collect brief memories from ...
