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konstruKt w/Peter Brotzmann: Eklisia Sunday

Read "Eklisia Sunday" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 8, 2013

The Turkish free jazz outfit KonstruKt might be considered the most evolved improvisational band working in jazz today. Founded, not in the hotbeds of jazz, London, New York, Chicago, Wuppertal, or Krakow, their isolation is the key to their success. Well, isolation and observation. Although this band was formed in 2008, their ...

Article: Album Review

Frank Lowe: The Loweski

Read "The Loweski" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 5, 2013

Producer Michael Anderson has unearthed yet more music from the ESP-disk vaults to complement tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe's Black Beings (ESP-disk, 1974), the session which announced the Memphis-born reedman's arrival as leader on the NYC jazz scene. Recorded at the same date, reputed to be from Ornette Coleman's Prince Street loft, The Loweski adds another 37-minutes ...

Article: Album Review

The Group: Live

by John Sharpe
March 3, 2013

What quirk of fate governs whether or not a band captures the public imagination? A star-studded lineup? A strong set of tunes? Or just the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time? For The Group--a stellar mid-'80s aggregation of New York City avant talent--all these preconditions seemed to be in place, ...

Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits

Read "Greatest Hits" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser

by Harry S. Pariser
March 3, 2013

"Greatest Hits" compilations are not releases normally associated with jazz musicians, and especially not with pianist as decidedly avant-garde as Matthew Shipp.Shipp explains that “My impetus for creating this CD was that I have a vast catalogue which I don't think the jazz world has started to absorb yet. I selected the tunes by ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Tetsu Saitoh: Strings & The Moon

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 14, 2013

Japanese double bass master Testsu Saitoh is relatively unknown outside Japan. Most of his discography was released by small Japanese labels, including his own, Travessia, and naturally most of his collaborations are with East Asian musicians. Though he played and recorded with Western musicians, including fellow double bass players, as on the double bass quartet tribute ...

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William Parker: Centering - Unreleased Early Recordings: 1976-1987

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 28, 2013

Il percorso di William Parker è sostenuto da palpitante vitalità, scaturisce da un crogiolo in cui si temprano creatività, coerenza, forza etica e spirituale. Arte e vita vi si intrecciano in modo saldo. Romanzesca è la descrizione della giornata tipo del contrabbassista, tra il Village e il Lower East Side nei primi anni Settanta, riportata nel ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: William Parker

January 10, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating William Parker's birthday today! As Steve Greenlee of the Boston Globe stated in July 2002, “William Parker has emerged as the most important leader of the current avant-garde scene in jazz.” He is working in many of the more important groups in this genre, some of the most prestigious being his ...

News: Event

David S. Ware Memorial Service At Saint Peter's Church

January 2, 2013

The friends and family of the late David S. Ware will gather at Saint Peter's Church at 619 Lexington Avenue where it meets 54th Street on Monday, January 7, 2013 at 7:30pm The musical portions of the service will be presented by Cooper–Moore: solo harp William Parker: special presentation Muhammad Ali and ...