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Vijay Iyer Trio – Historicity (ACT Music, 2009)Monday, October 19, 2009
Cecil Taylor – Conquistador (Blue Note 1966, 2003)Sunday, October 18, 2009
E.S.T. – Retrospective (ACT Music, 2009)
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From All About Jazz:
08-May-09 Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding & Nate Wooley
Crackleknob (Hatology)
Reviewed by Troy Collins08-May-09 Lawrence Casserley / Adam Linson
Integument (Psi)
Reviewed by Glenn Astarita08-May-09 Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch Records)
Reviewed by Mike Perciaccante07-May-09 John Zorn
Filmworks XXIII: El General (Tzadik)
Reviewed by Warren Allen07-May-09 Andreas Willers
Drowning Migrant (Leo Records)
Reviewed by Glenn Astarita07-May-09 Daphna Sadeh & The Voyagers
Reconcilation (Tzadik)
Reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni07-May-09 Loren Connors / Jim O’Rourke
Two Nice Catholic Boys (Family Vineyard Records)
Reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk
From Bagatellen:
Joe Maneri/Peter Dolger – Peace Concert
Duets between saxophonists and drummers are an important part of recorded improvisation, a distillation of action to breath and rhythm. The list is long, beginning in recorded jazz with the Sonny Rollins and Philly Jones duo reading of “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” for Blue Note and carrying on through such […]Wadada Leo Smith – Procession of the Great Ancestry
Trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith’s second of two dates for Nessa Records is a true embodiment of the AACM Great Black Music aesthetic.Procession of the Great Ancestry is a very mature record, Smith’s concept of rhythm-units clearly defined, ripening aesthetically yet tied to a sense of history. By the early 1980s, Smith was resident in […]Jana Winderen – Heated: Live in Japan
Many inventions have reflected an atavistic need to aid man in his destruction of the planet, which have then developed benign, civilian applications: Radar, Nuclear Power, perhaps even Jerry Springer. And this is certainly true of a beloved device of professional field recorders everywhere: The Hydrophone.
First used in […]
From Bagatellen:
Giuseppi Logan – Quartet (ESP-Disk’)
Until resurfacing with the aid of Brooklyn pastor Dr. Bill Jones, reedman Giuseppi Logan was, like Henry Grimes, one of the lost enigmas of contemporary improvisation. Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1935, Logan studied at the New England Conservatory and worked in a notable but unrecorded Bill Dixon group with Rashied Ali, drums; […]The Blue Note 7 – Mosaic (Blue Note Records)
Certain discs make for instant soapboxes for admirers and detractors alike. This one, an album-sized mouthpiece for Blue Note Records 70th anniversary celebration, certainly seems fit for contention both in the questions it raises and the liberties it assumes. The ensemble operating under the otherwise anonymous moniker is a benighted collection of neo […]Zaid Nasser – Off Minor
From title to back-story, altoist Zaid Nasser’s Smalls debut communicated a situation indicative of the jazz life, that of the colossal talent constrained by the circumstances of public indifference. This second act feels more hopeful and, by proxy, more relaxed. Nasser’s still scuffling for gigs along with his peers, but he’s been visited by […]Ben Stapp Trio – Ecstasis
Tuba-led groups aren’t particularly common in improvised music; perhaps Ray Draper’s recordings for Prestige were among the most notable in the instrument’s brief discography, not to mention Sam Rivers’ 1970s Tuba Trio with Bob Stewart. Recently, tenorman Kalaparusha employed Jesse Dulman in his trio with drummer Ravish Momin. Tubaist Ben Stapp recorded with Lisbon-based […]
From All About Jazz:
Cecil Taylor / William Parker / Masashi Harada
CT: The Dance Project (FMP Records)
Reviewed by Henry Smith
07-Jan-09 Gianluigi Trovesi All’Opera
Profumo Di Violetta (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman06-Jan-09 CODONA
The CODONA Trilogy (ECM Records)
Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair06-Jan-09 Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach’s 70th Birthday Year
Reviewed by John Eyles06-Jan-09 Arve Henriksen
Cartography (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman
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