Peter Kuhn The Other Shore (No Business, 2016) No Coming, No Going: The Music of Peter Kuhn, 1978-79 (No Business Records, 2016) Reprieves aren’t too common in the jazz business. For every rediscovered figure who narrowly lost battles with personal demons, like bassist Henry Grimes or reedists Giuseppe Logan and Frank Morgan, there are countless
Fay Victor’s monthly performance at 55Bar is one of the most happening things in New York City these days. Full of soulful energy and crisp with fresh ideas, Victorpicks the audience up and carries them along on a delectable journey. On July 28, the voice artist led her band on a special night that also
Jungle (Mat Walerian, Matthew Shipp, Hamid Drake): Live at Okuden “Repetition is never in the stars. It is about becoming a part of creation rather than trying to be creative. Improvisational music is a day-to-day, second-by-second experience that reboots itself at each silence. The music speaks for itself.” — William Parker Live at Okuden is
Metal Chaos Ensemble Intermetallic Compounds (Evil Clown) Personnel: PEK – tenor sax, alto sax, bass tromboon, contra-alto clarinet, gaunzi, sheng, metal, crotales/bells, daxophone, aquasonic, theremin, korg ms-20, daiko, guzheng, yanqin, whistles Andria Nicodemou – vibes, crotales/bells, metal, aquasonic, daxophone, guzheng, yanqin Yuri Zbitnov – metal, drums, daiko, Indian Festival Drum, daxophone, vibes, aquasonic, crotales/bells, yanqin,
Anaïs Maviel Solo (Voice & Percussion) Gold Bolus Recordings (CD) Recorded by Sami Bouvet, Paris, 2014; artwork by My Lê Chabert If you are interested in purchasing a copy of this record, you may obtain one directly from the artist here. Review hOULe is a fascinating and vital solo recording from New York-based, French-Haitian musician
Andrew Drury’s Content Provider (CD) Self-titled (Soup & Sound, 2015) Andrew Drury brings the content, all of it, on Content Provider, a set of six densely constructed instrumental compositions (and an arrangement of Clifford Brown’s Daahoud) released in 2015 on his own Soup and Sound Recordings label. This is an album of in-your-face material: the
Yoni Kretzmer 2-Bass Quartet – Book II (OutNow Recordings, 2015) Yoni Kretzmer – tenor saxophone Reuben Radding – double bass Sean Conly – double bass Mike Pride – drums The Yoni Kretzmer 2-Bass Quartet Book II CD is an impressive recording by Kretzmer in his series of CD releases on OutNow Recordings. An apt description
Brian Drye’s Bizingas Eggs Up High (NCM East, 2015) Brooklyn NYC based Quartet Bizingas self-titled debut fused ArtRock sensibilities with bright, jazzy spirit to create a truly unique musical aesthetic. Centered around the rich and diverse compositions of trombonist Brian Drye, Bizingas ventured down a path few have traveled. The Follow up project Eggs Up
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
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
