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Jim Staley: Scattered Thoughts
by Kurt Gottschalk
Jim Staley's career has been either made by or hastened by (or more likely both) his work as a producer and promoter. He rarely performs outside of Roulette, the longstanding Downtown venue he oversees and appears there only a few times a year at best. His recorded output is largely limited to occasional releases on Einstein ...
William Parker: At Somewhere There
by Mark Corroto
Bassist William Parker's music reveals the ever presence of two things: energy and color. Sure, a band's timekeeper is also its dynamo, but Parker's music has always radiated more than pulse. His playing gives off a spiritual vibration that translates easily into color fields. He is a human mood ring. This live recording, from July 2008 ...
The Kidd Jordan Quartet Brings Free Jazz to Douglas Beach House, CA
by Bill Leikam
Kidd Jordan Quartet Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, California March 7, 2010 On March 7th, with a stiff northerly wind blowing the flags straight out from the flag pole outside the Douglas Beach House and under a gray coastal sky, legendary jazz sax-man Sir Edward Kidd Jordan led ...
Sabir Mateen: URDLA XXX
by John Sharpe
It must have been some surprise when Sabir Mateen, already playing, strode into the centre of URDLA, the Parisian engraving workshop where a hundred guests were convened for a celebration of its 30th anniversary. Mateen had been commissioned as a special guest to appear on the stroke of midnight. Solo concerts are not the rite of ...
Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy: Some Other Place
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Agusti Fernandez and bassist Barry Guy are two great solo improvising musicians that have a rare talent to cooperate in music making, combining their talents for an ever greater sound. So the question is, why haven't they recorded a duet until now? Spaniard Fernandez is an original voice, perhaps best described as the love child ...
Jemeel Moondoc: Muntu Recordings
by John Sharpe
Jemeel Moondoc Muntu Recordings NoBusiness Records 2010 Lithuanian based NoBusiness records has put together a wonderful retrospective on under celebrated saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc and his pioneering ensemble Muntu, sumptuously packaged in a three-audio disc plus booklet box set. It's a bulletin from another era, the late 1970s, a ...
William Parker: Temporary & In the Shade of the Sun
by Kurt Gottschalk
William Parker / Giorgio Dini Temporary Silta 2009 John Blum with Sunny Murray and William Parker In the Shade of Sun Ecstatic Peace 2009 Bassist William Parker is deeply familiar ...
John Blum: In The Shade Of The Sun
by Karl Ackermann
Despite his relative anonymity, pianist John Blum has been a New York free jazz fixture for more than a decade. In the Shade of the Sun teams him with ubiquitous bassist William Parker and percussion innovator Sunny Murray. Blum and Murray work well together, having established their musical relationship in Murray's trio and on Perles Noires ...
Flux: Peninsulator
by Ian Patterson
Any band setting out to make a debut recording these days has a potentially inexhaustible number of influences from which to draw upon. Consequently, it is increasingly difficult to sound unlike anybody else. Flux, whose members attend Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory, has produced a recording with echoes of progressive rock, classical chamber music and post-modern jazz ...
William Parker - Giorgio Dini: Temporary
by AAJ Italy Staff
Parrebbe un formato inusuale, quello che abbina due contrabbassi nella durata di un intero disco. Ma dopo la storica, eccezionale esperienza registrata da Barre Phillips e Dave Holland nel 1971 con Music from Two Basses, la pratica si è andata allargando attraverso una serie nutrita di incontri ad alto livello, che hanno visto dialogare Phillips con ...
