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Jim Black and Axis No Axis: Dogs of Great Indifference
by C. Michael Bailey
Trying to describe the texture of music is a bit of a vulgar theology. But the imperfect metaphor of texture is nevertheless the only way to discuss Jim Black's most recent release with Axis No Axis, Dogs of Great Indifference. It is an electric soundscape one might think of hearing on Hearts of Space. The core ...
Paul Motian Trio 2000 + 1: On Broadway, Vol. 4: Or The Paradox of Continuity
by Tom Greenland
Remember the Push-Me-Pull-You, the two-headed llama from Dr. Dolittle? Like Hugh Lofting's imaginary beast, the latest effort from Paul Motian (cum Trio 2000 + One) seems to be heading in several directions at once. Like the previous three recordings in the On Broadway series, it features “standards from the Great White Way in a relatively understated ...
Jim Black / AlasNoAxis: Dogs of Great Indifference
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
In the midst of mounting musical intensity, the drummer was undaunted when his stick shattered. He continued to pound the beat amid angular guitar washes, soaring tenor sax squalls and percolating electric bass. This was not the latest hipster rock act. It was drummer Jim Black's AlasNoAxis powering through the climactic crescendo of “Tars and Vanish ...
Paul Motian Trio: At The Village Vanguard
by AAJ Italy Staff
Una nuova veste grafica ed un’eccellente rimasterizzazione caratterizzano la ristampa di questa incisione del 1995, originariamente prodotta dalla label tedesca JMT. Formazione tra le più longeve ed apprezzate del jazz contemporaneo, il trio di Paul Motian propone anche qui un flusso sonoro libero ed aperto, capace di conferire insolite sfumature alla formula del trio ed avvicinare ...
Uri Caine / Bedrock: Shelf-Life
by Tom Greenland
Shelf-Life, Uri Caine's seventeenth release as a leader (his thirteenth for Winter & Winter) is a continuation of the pianist/composer's earlier collaborations with drummer Zach Danziger and bassist Tim Lefebvre, particularly 2002's Bedrock. A departure from his highly individualistic reworkings of classical composers such as Mahler, Wagner, Schumann, Bach, and Beethoven, this disc recalls the Philly ...
Tethered Moon: Play Kurt Weill
by AAJ Italy Staff
Continua l’operazione di ristampe del catalogo JMT da parte della Winter & Winter nella inconfondibile edizione cartonata nera con scritte bianche e rosse. Il CD in questione recupera una incisione del dicembre 1994 ad opera di Tethered Moon, trio composto da due fuoriclasse come Gary Peacock e Paul Motian e da Masabumi Kikuchi, pianista giapponese meno ...
Jim Black / AlasNoAxis: Dogs Of Great Indifference
by Chris May
Rock and jazz make fractious partners. The certainties and simplicities of the one don't always sit easily with the unpredictable trajectories and inventions of the other. Opposites can attract, but they can also repel. Miles Davis pulled the marriage off, at least with his early electric bands, and fellow trumpeter Ian Car contemporaneously created something satisfying ...
Paul Motian Trio 2000 + One: On Broadway, Vol. 4: Or The Paradox of Continuity
by Samuel Chell
On the year of his 75th birthday, Paul Motian has released Volume 4 in his ongoing On Broadway series. This time his group, Trio 2000 + One, features saxophonist Chris Potter and bassist Larry Grenadier, augmented by pianist Masabumi Kikuchi on five of the thirteen tracks and vocalist Rebecca Martin on the remaining eight. No matter ...
Jim Black: Dogs of Great Indifference
by Troy Collins
The fourth Winter & Winter studio release by Jim Black's longstanding AlasNoAxis group is, like its predecessors, remarkably consistent in delivery. The progressions the group makes at times are so subtle from one album to the next that the different recordings can seem interchangeable. But AlasNoAxis soldiers on as part of a brave new tradition, blending ...
Fumio Yasuda and Theo Bleckmann: Fumio Yasuda and Theo Bleckmann: Las Vegas Rhapsody: The Night They Invented Champagne
by C. Michael Bailey
This whimsical sound trip to the heyday of Las Vegas celebrates the city's one hundredth anniversary. German-born and New York-based singer Theo Bleckmann and Japanese pianist/arranger/composer Fumio Yasuda unite with Bernd Ruf and the Kammerorchester Basel to transform carefully chosen selections from the American Songbook into a soundtrack for celebrating the rich decadence and unbridled hedonism ...
