Our Earth / Our World (pfMentum) Personnel Peter Kuhn (alto and tenor sax, Bb clarinet) Dave Sewelson (baritone and sopranino sax) Larry Roland (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums) Track List Our Earth 25:22 Our World 12:36 It Matters 11:07 Review This performance happened as part of the Arts For Art. The musicians on this record date
Bobby Bradford & Hafez Modirzadeh with Mark Dresser, Alex Cline No Business Records (2016) Amid the structural redefinition of jazz music, which is continually ongoing and, as of late, has placed an emphasis on the merger between free improvisation, arch composition and pulsative, rock-based rhythms, there is still much conversation to be had on the
Rempis Percussion Quartet – Cash and Carry Aerophonic, 2015 Recorded August 31st, 2014 at the Hungry Brain, Chicago; recorded, mixed, and mastered by Dave Zuchowski, design by Johnathan Crawford, produced by Dave Rempis Personnel Dave Rempis (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones) Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass) Tim Daisy (drums) Frank Rosaly (drums) Track Listing Water Foul
Bobby Kapp & Matthew Shipp Cactus (Northern Spy, 2016) The art of ensemble is one of the most fascinating aspects of improvised music to me and any ensemble that includes piano seems almost doubly so. Why? The range of the piano is so large, both in pitch and timbre, and typically requires both hands, which
Pascal Niggenkemper’s Le 7eme Continent Talking Trash (Clean Feed, 2016) Players like bassist-composer Pascal Niggenkemper exemplify the fact that, while there is undeniably a New York jazz scene, creative music in the boroughs is about so much more than just geography. While he now calls Paris home, Niggenkemper, who is of French-German descent and studied
Just a handful of times in any given generation, there is a record that screams out with such overwhelming force, such a level of unwavering vitality, a product of the organic creative process made necessary by the social context of the artistry, that it demands we all stop what we are doing and give it
The Darkseid Recital AUM Fidelity (CD/DL) Personnel: Darius Jones (alto saxophone) Matthew Shipp (piano) Track Listing: Celestial Fountain 2,327,694,748 Granny Goodness Gardens of Yivaroth Lords of Woe Life Equation Sepulchre of Mandrakk Divine Engine Novu’s Final Gift Saxophonist Darius Jones and pianist Matthew Shipp shine in their second collaboration. They both deliver stellar performances on
Drummer/Composer Tyshawn Sorey has made a significant impact on the improvised music scene for years. Spread across two CDs, his latest project The Inner Spectrum of Variables is a bold and ambitious piece of work that unravels throughout multiple movements, forging a working link between the worlds of composition and free improvisation. Toeing the line
Darius Jones Quartet Featuring Emilie Lesbros Le Bebe de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) Musicians: Darius Jones (alto sax) Matt Mitchell (piano, Rhodes) Sean Conly (bass) Ches Smith (drum set, percussion) Emilie Lesbros (voice, piano on track 6) Pascal Niggenkemper (bass on track 6) Track List: Two Worlds, One Soul (10:11) Chanteuse in Blue (9:01) Universal
David S. Ware’s Apogee – Birth of a Being (AUM Fidelity, 2015 reissue) It’s mid-June, 2016. I’m in my 15-month-old child’s nursery and we are listening, both for the first time, to Birth of a Being, the 1977 debut of David S. Ware (in the collaborative trio Apogee with Cooper-Moore and Marc Edwards), exquisitely re-released
