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Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Hollywood
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter/composer Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Hollywood brings a Jewish tinge into a bluesy American jazz feeling; this mournful after-hours set brings some past sounds to mind while simultaneously pushing the vision forward.The ensemble features an unusual front line of the leader's trumpet with Pablo Calocero's baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and flutes, along with D.J. Bonebrake's ...
Masada: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7
by John Kelman
Sometimes not playing together on an ongoing basis can be a good thing. While there is no question that there are clear advantages to working regularly, distance can also yield unexpected benefits. Most jazz musicians who make any kind of living at their craft work in a variety of contexts, so there is always a certain ...
Paul Brody's Sadawi: Beyond Babylon
by John Kelman
Following his '02 début on Tzadik, Kabbalah Dreams , Berlin-based trumpeter Paul Brody reconvenes his group Sadawi for a sophomore effort that takes the tradition of Jewish music and quite literally twists it on its ear. Over half of Beyond Babylon evolves from Brody deconstructing pieces by four modern klezmer musicians/composers--Frank London ("Golem Khosidl"), ...
Basya Schechter: Queen's Dominion
by John Kelman
Basya Schechter, normally heard as the voice of New Jewish Movement group Pharoah's Daughter, makes a bit of a departure and delivers Queen's Dominion , a more-or-less stripped down instrumental affair that blends music from across the Middle East with, not so surprisingly, a sound that also demonstrates how the music of Persia ultimately travelled north ...
John Zorn: Masada 10 Years Volume Four: Masada Recital
by John Kelman
It's hard to imagine that ten years have passed since John Zorn introduced his Masada project. A decade later, with a collective songbook of over two hundred pieces and a range of contexts that include the original Ornette Coleman-inflected Masada Quartet, the chamber-approach of Bar Kokhba and Masada String Trio, and the wilder, more aggressive stance ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years 1971-1979
by Rex Butters
John Zorn's Tzadik label continues to honor the genius of Wadada Leo Smith, this time with a crucial collection of material he recorded and released himself on his Kabell label in the seventies. This four-CD box set gathers Creative Music 1, Reflectativity, Song of Humanity, and Ahkreanvention, plus over two hours of unreleased material. ...
Greg Wall: Later Prophets
by Dan McClenaghan
What do you recommend for that always-searching jazz fan who has heard everything? Maybe a CD by Hasidic New Wave (how's that for a category?) saxophonist/clarinetist/composer Greg Wall.The story of Ezekiel inspired Wall's latest offering, Later Prophets : Ezekiel ..."whose prophecy resurrecting dry bones after the destruction of the temple contains a great message ...
Greg Wall: Later Prophets
by John Kelman
On Later Prophets , his third release as a leader, reedman Greg Wall continues to use traditional Jewish music as a starting point, as he has with Hasidic New Wave, but the complexion is altogether different. Traversing the diverse from an authentic ethnic style to Ayler-like freedom, from ambient work reminiscent of Mal Waldron’s work on ...
Jenny Scheinman: Shalagaster
by Celeste Sunderland
Jenny Scheinman’s third solo album, Shalagaster, shimmers with such an array of color that it could work quite nicely as the score to a silent film. In fact, with a traipsing swagger and harmonies that gleam like satin, the record recalls a bit of silver screen romance. But purely old fashioned it is not. The violinist’s ...
John Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration
by John Kelman
Masada String Trio 50th Birthday Celebration: Volume 1 Tzadik 2004 For the entire month of September 2003, multi-instrumentalist/composer John Zorn celebrated his 50th birthday with a series of concerts at Tonic in New York City. For thirty days he looked at groups past and present, for one of ...
