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Lineage and Vision Festival 16: June 5-11
So much of our experience is increasingly place-less as franchise smiles crafted by human resources consultants greet us daily no matter what the biome or weight of memory. The fast food smile and store floor uniform must ever be the same. Crowd counts displace quality practices with childlike aspirations toward some eternal Superbowl as the only ...
William Hooker and Thomas Chapin - Crossing Points (Nobusiness, 2011)
Multi-instrumentalist Thomas Chapin was one of my guiding lights when I started getting into jazz really heavily in the 1990's. His Knitting Factory releases are all stellar, and he could play anything from swing to bop to free, but was possibly at his best when combining all genres or dispensing with the notion of genre entirely. ...
Wave Lengths
On February 17, Ars Nova Workshop presents a free concert at The Rotunda with William Hooker's Two Sides of Now and Norwegian duo Vertex. Tonight (February 11) on WRTI’s premier jazz program The Bridge, host J. Michael Harrison interviews William Hooker. Broadcasting live at 10pm (EST) from WRTI’s headquarters at Temple University, you can stream the ...
William Hooker: Earth's Orbit
by AAJ Italy Staff
Batterista, compositore, poeta e artista di ampi interessi, William Hooker è certamente musicista che ha saputo sempre sintetizzare in un contesto improvvisativo tante tensioni espressive, incorporando elementi rock e post-punk su una base free, incrociando la creatività newyorkese a partire dagli anni Ottanta e collaborando con artisti che vanno da Lee Ranaldo dei Sonic Youth a ...
Darius Jones: From Johnny Hodges To Noise Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Alto saxophonist Darius Jones--who won most critics' nomination for the best jazz newcomer album of 2009 for Man'ish Boy (A Raw And Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009)--is a great fan of Johnny Hodges. He says that the lyrical Duke Ellington altoist is his hero, and this is pleasantly noticeable at the beginning of Man'ish Boy. It ...
John Sharpe’s Best Releases of 2010
by John Sharpe
Here are ten new releases, in no particular order, which stood out among those I heard this year. Joe McPhee / Ingebrigt Håker FlatenBlue Chicago BluesNot TwoJoe McPhee and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten make a successful pairing as evidenced by interactions which evince a highly charged form and ...
Earth's Orbit
Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
LP 1:
01. Chronicles; 02. Tensegrity; 03. Tetrahedron; 04. Streamlined Unit; 05. 4D to Dymaxion.
LP 2:
01. Tensegrity (4D) part 1; 02. Tensegrity (4D) part 2.
Yearn for Certainty
Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2010
Track listing: Ingratiated Beam--Leroy; Century's Soles; Commonplace Travel; Majistrait; Yearn for Certainty.
William Hooker Trio: Yearn for Certainty
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Drummer William Hooker can tell stories in many more ways than one. On Yearn for Certainty, he works his majestic tenor vocal chords as he recites a poem that accompanies the initial track, “Ingratiated Beam--Leroy." One track later, on the superbly crafted, rhapsodic melody of “Century's Soles," Hooker manipulates his ensemble of drums to tell a ...
William Hooker: Earth's Orbit
by John Sharpe
William Hooker Earth's Orbit No Business Records 2010 If East Coast is hot and West Coast cool in classic jazz parlance, then composer and drummer William Hooker subverts that tenet with East hot, West hotter in this limited edition, double vinyl set featuring separate bands captured live on ...
