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Regina Carter: I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey
by Troy Collins
Regina Carter dedicated I'll Be Seeing You to her mother, who recently passed away. In the process of recording this disc as both loving tribute and musical therapy, Carter followed the advice of arranger John Clayton, working through a set of tunes culled from her mother's youth. The results are wistfully nostalgic and viable in their ...
John Tchicai / Charlie Kohlhase / Garrison Fewell: Good Night Songs
by Troy Collins
Good Night Songs is an intimate live recording of three masterful improvisers in a relaxed, contemplative mood. Serene yet challenging, this double album is the culmination of lives spent under the radar exploring free jazz as imperative expression. Saxophonists John Tchicai and Charlie Kohlhase and guitarist Garrison Fewell converged on a late December evening ...
Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials
by Troy Collins
After being introduced to one another by M-Base saxophonist Steve Coleman a decade ago, pianist Vijay Iyer and alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthapa have shared a long and fruitful career together. Both are founding members in each other's ensembles: Mahanthappa is the principle foil in Iyer's long running quartet, and vice versa in Mahanthappa's own group. Recently ...
The Vandermark 5: Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3 & 4
by Troy Collins
In his liner notes, multi-instrumentalist and composer Ken Vandermark proclaims that his time covering jazz standard repertoire has passed: “The fourth volume of Free Jazz Classics will likely be the last. Though I have learned a great deal by rearranging some of my favorite composers' work ... it's time to leave that process behind and focus ...
Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly
by Troy Collins
Ophiuchus Butterfly is guitarist Liberty Ellman's third release as a leader, but his widest exposure has come as guitarist in Henry Threadgill's acoustic Zooid ensemble. From the distinctive opening notes of the title track, one can hear that Ellman has been absorbing lessons from the master. Blending Threadgill's taste for multiethnic rhythms and Eastern scales with ...
Mungenast / Field / Bloom / Proudman: No Such Animal
by Troy Collins
An underground summit meeting, this Beantown collective features heavy hitters from two of Boston's most notable instrumental avant-garde/rock ensembles. At the invitation of experimental guitarist Tim Mungenast, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic saxophonist Ken Field joined Cul De Sac drummer Jon Proudman and former Cul De Sac bassist Michael Bloom for a late-night quartet jam session. The ...
Pete McCann: Most Folks
by Troy Collins
Pete McCann, a ridiculously versatile guitarist, takes his varied interests to extremes on this Omnitone debut. McCann's third album as a leader is his most diverse collection of songs yet. He explains his stylistically unbound aesthetic this way: “I like music; I like all different types of jazz.... I love it all. I don't like to ...
Dave Douglas: Meaning and Mystery
by Troy Collins
Poll-winning trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas has led numerous diverse ensembles over the past decade. The quintet featured here is one of his more traditional lineups, at least compared to others which have employed fairly exotic instrumentation. This is Douglas' 24th release as a leader, and his fourth with this six year-old quintet. While it covers ...
Ben Allison: Medicine Wheel
by Troy Collins
Bassist Ben Allison was a virtual unknown when this album was originally released by Palmetto in 1998. After Seven Arrows (Koch, 1996), this was Allison's first major release. Combining conservatory training, ethnic/world music fusions, post-bop energy and free-jazz vigor, Allison and company were on the cusp of a new movement. Listening to this recording in retrospect ...
Roy Nathanson: Sotto Voce
by Troy Collins
An intriguing combination of spoken word, multipart vocal harmonies and adventurous instrumental jazz with a surprising rhythmic twist, Sotto Voce is not unprecedented in saxophonist/composer Roy Nathanson's discography. With trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, Nathanson is co-founder of the long running Jazz Passengers, those erstwhile guardians of postmodern irreverence. Their career over the past decade has found them ...
