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Golia / Josephson / Kaiser / Keneally / Morris / Smith / Walter: Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler
by Troy Collins
Revered for his uncompromising 1960s New Thing innovations, seminal free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler's often maligned cross-over work from the end of the decade received widespread criticism. Seeking a wider audience, Ayler's final efforts often presented the lyrical contributions of his girlfriend, Mary “Maria" Parks in more traditional blues-based settings. Widely misunderstood and commonly ...
George Russell Sextet: Ezz-Thetics
by Troy Collins
A post-war masterpiece, Ezz-Thetics is pianist/arranger George Russell's definitive 1961 sextet recording from the earliest phase of his multi-decade career. On par with such iconic albums as Oliver Nelson's Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1961), Mal Waldron's The Quest (Riverside, 1961) and Andrew Hill's Point of Departure (Blue Note, 1964), Ezz-Thetics traffics in the same ...
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Shamokin!!!
by Troy Collins
Bassist Moppa Elliott's cheeky quartet, Mostly Other People Do The Killing (MOPDTK) aims to drag jazz kicking and screaming out of the concert hall and back into the street. In the liner notes to their first self-titled album (Hot Cup, 2005) Elliott wrote ..."I like my jazz with some dirt on it, sometimes a lot of ...
Scott Fields Ensemble: Denouement
by Troy Collins
Chicago-based guitarist Scott Fields most successful projects, such as Mamet (Delmark, 2001), and Beckett (Clean Feed, 2007), offer a novel merger of structured improvisation inspired by literary sources, this album included. Recorded in 1997 and previously available only on Fields' own tiny Geode label, this session sat dormant for ten years before this Clean Feed reissue.
Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude
by Troy Collins
After three years and as many records, drummer Bobby Previte and guitarist Charlie Hunter bring their experimental trio project Groundtruther to a triumphant conclusion. Previte and Hunter have invited a rotating third member to play on each release; Latitude (Thirsty Ear, 2004) featured saxophonist Greg Osby, while Longitude (Thirsty Ear, 2005) starred DJ Logic. Keyboardist John ...
Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman: The Treatment
by Troy Collins
Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman The Treatment Playscape Recordings 2007 The Treatment offers two views of the current incarnation of guitarist Michael Musillami's working group by bundling a studio recording with live performance video. Violinist Mark Feldman was invited by Musillami to join his long-standing trio with bassist Joe ...
William Parker / Raining On The Moon: Corn Meal Dance
by Troy Collins
Bassist, composer, Vision Festival organizer and all-around Renaissance man William Parker is a man of many talents, from solo bass recitalist to big band leader. Raining On The Moon, his lyrical group, features the vocal talents of Leena Conquest, singing Parker's words like they were her own. Based on the same line-up as his long-standing quartet ...
Rob Reddy's Small Town: The Book of the Storm
by Troy Collins
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Rob Reddy premiers his most ambitious work to date with The Book of the Storm, a jazz symphony in four movements. The premiere of his large ensemble, the aptly titled Small Town, is not only his first official live recording, but his debut as a conductor. Similar to contemporary classical composers, ...
Alex Kontorovich: Deep Minor
by Troy Collins
The Radical Jewish Cultural movement, spurred into existence by avant-garde composer John Zorn, is already in its second decade and steadily progressing into the future. Russian-born saxophonist/clarinetist Alex Kontorovich is part of a new generation embracing the wild and wooly rhythms and primal harmonic inflections of an ancient ethnic subculture. Co-founder of the Klez ...
Jim Connolly and The Gove County String Quartet: Jim Connolly and The Gove County String Quartet
by Troy Collins
Jim Connolly and The Gove County String Quartet is the debut of the Santa Barbara-based composer's newest ensemble. Leader of the mercurial chamber music septet The Gove County Philharmonic, contrabassist Connolly largely eschews the Philharmonic's eccentricities in favor of a more refined approach. While the larger Philharmonic tends towards cinematic flourishes and a circus-like ...
