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Anthony Coleman: Pushy Blueness
by Kurt Gottschalk
Anthony Coleman is such a dictionary of style and genre that he has been an invaluable sideman in the Downtown chronology for more than 25 years. His ability to adapt, reference and mimic gave breadth to the wide-eyed, nascent scene--and has also informed his own genre-busting projects. But anyone who has listened closely ...
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: Mayim Rabim
by Elliott Simon
Mayim Rabim is replete with compositions that are able to stand on their own as superb improvisational vehicles for a fine eclectic group of musicians--Israeli-born vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, pianist Anat Fort, clarinetist Michael Winograd (whose development into a world class klezmer-jazz artist continues to impress), drummer Take Toriyama, cellist Rufus Cappadocia, and four additional vocalists--to ...
John Zorn / Masada String Trio: Azazel
by Kurt Gottschalk
Of the various ensembles performing the Masada songbook under composer (and sometimes player) John Zorn's leadership, the Masada String Trio may not be the most exciting--it's hard to compete with horns and guitars--but it is the most beautiful. The sheer musicianship of the trio of violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Erik Friedlander and bassist Greg Cohen is ...
Jamie Saft Trio: Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan
by Eyal Hareuveni
The sophomore release by the Jamie Saft Trio is a provocative and entertaining statement. Trouble attempts to reexamine Dylan's legacy from a Jewish point of view, as part of Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series, and to position Dylan as a Jewish role model--views that Dylan most likely would have renounced immediately. But furthermore, Trouble is provocative ...
Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
A good 80% of the music reviewed at All About Jazz is “instrumental": that is, it has no singing or human voices. It's almost superfluous to say so, of course: have you ever read a review that said “'St. Thomas,' like all the other cuts on Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, is an instrumental offering ? When ...
Ned Rothenberg: The Lumina Recordings
by Kurt Gottschalk
Reed and wind instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg is an almost frighteningly talented musician and composer. Without the charismatic approach of other downtown players--people like John Zorn and Elliott Sharp, who borrowed from different genres to define their sound--Rothenberg's focus has been on mastering his instrument. And despite his humble statement of hearing a “not yet fully formed ...
Joseph Holbrooke Trio: The Moat Recordings
by Marc Medwin
May is Derek Bailey memorial month at The Stone. It's fitting, then, that these Joseph Holbrooke recordings emerge now, as we mourn the fact that Bailey isn't physically with us anymore. The notes indicate that he was involved in the choice of material up to the end, happy that it was finally going to be released ...
Cyro Baptista: Love the Donkey
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
A panoply of percussion erupts from Love the Donkey as Cyro Baptista and his merry troupe of percussionists and special guests unleash fourteen tracks of manic energy and irrepressible fun. It serves as an effective antidote to overly cerebral and self-consciously serious music. Throughout his prolific career, Baptista has voraciously performed most imaginable ...
Ned Rothenberg: Solo Works - The Lumina Recordings
by Alex T.
Despite the landmark work of Sonny Rollins, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker and Steve Lacy, solo saxophone performance represents an exception rather than the norm in jazz and improvisation. Because of the instrumental limitations, solo reed players need to develop complex multiphonic techniques or make use of electronic overdubbing in order to go beyond mere single-note playing. ...
Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel
by AAJ Italy Staff
E così, come talvolta accade, un gesto casuale, un capitolo, magari un'impressione fallace - con il tragico senno di poi la si scorge - diventano qualcosa di definitivo, come quando si ripensa alle ultime parole di una persona che abbiamo amato e che magari ci ha lasciati, parole che nel flusso di una vita potevano scivolare ...
