Showing posts with label free jazz today. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free jazz today. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

NatJim, Natsuki Tamura, Jim Black

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  In the history of Jazz, an important if at times under-discussed element is of configuration, ensemble size and makeup, the most obvious b...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Dave Sewelson, More Music for a Free World

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  Baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson shows what he's made of on a quartet date he leads that's worth checking out. It's called M...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Joel Futterman, William Parker, Hamid Drake, A Tribute to Alvin Fielder, Live at Vision Festival XXIV

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  Alvin Fielder (1935-2019) was an important and influential drummer, a pioneering charter member of the Association of the Advancement of C...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Thomas Heberer, Leap of Faith, Solution Concepts

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Reed jazzman PEK has been quite prolific making avant jazz happen up in Boston with his two ensembles. Today we hear a CD of characteristi...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Joseph Daley, Warren Smith, Scott Robinson, The Tuba Trio Chronicles

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In the realm of jazz in our lifetime, Joseph Daley has consistently shown that he is one of the very most distinguished and original tuba ...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Bobby Bradford / Frode Gjerstad Quartet, The Delaware River

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On the docket today is a very together recording of the Bobby Bradford / Frode Gjerstad Quartet live in Philadelphia called The Delaware R...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Joe Hertenstein, HNH, with Pascal Niggenkemper and Thomas Heberer

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HNH (Clean Feed 332) is the potent trio of Joe Hertenstein on drums and compositions, Pascal Niggenkemper on contrabass and Thomas Hebere...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Joe McPhee, Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Charles Downs, Ticonderoga

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If you've been reading this blog regularly you will notice that Joe McPhee has been very active of late. And so today we have his vita...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Brotzmann/Edwards/Noble, Soul Food Available

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The question to me is not whether you should have avant reedist Peter Brotzmann's music in your collection. If you embrace avant ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Dave Rempis, Darren Johnston, Larry Ochs, Spectral

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When avant chamber jazz turns its attention to small ensembles of horns the emphasis generally turns to color and texture and sometimes le...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Linda Sharrock, Eric Zinman, Noah Rosen, Mario Rechtern, Acknowledgements

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Linda Sharrock is back! Her double CD No is No has been getting good reviews from those disposed toward the outside music she embodies. I...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Jason Ajemian, Tony Malaby, Rob Mazurek, Chad Taylor, A Way A Land of Life

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You take a lineup of Jason Ajemian, bass, Tony Malaby, saxes, Rob Mazurek, trumpet, and Chad Taylor, drums, and if you know these players ...
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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans, The Freedom Principal

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There are pairings of artists in the improvisational avant garde that make very good sense. Some others surprise you with unexpected chemi...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The Curators, Thank You

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Last October 11th I posted here on The Curators' online album Heavy Metal Spartacus . Today a look at their first album for Engine Rec...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Tiger Hatchery, Sun Worship

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ESP Records made its mark in part as the label that dared cover free-jazz artists (circa 1965) on the fringe when almost nobody else was d...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Francois Carrier, Overground to the Vortex

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Francois Carrier has shown himself especially over the last several years as an alto saxophonist and leader of avant freedom jazz that has...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Jeb Bishop, The Flame Alphabet

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It should come as no surprise to those who know their work that pitting tenor Rodrigo Amado with trombonist Jeb Bishop is an excellent ide...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut, Live at ABC No Rio, NYC, 2007

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The JaZt Tapes series seems to me a very good idea. It is a series of limited-edition releases by mostly avant jazz artists, music they w...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Platform 1 Takes Off, with Ken Vandermark and Steve Swell

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Platform 1? The name of a very lively "free jazz" quintet. Platform 1 Takes Off (Clean Feed 255) is the name of what I take to...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

Aram Shelton Quartet, Everything for Somebody

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There's a loose confederation of Chicago jazz performer-composers at work making exciting music these days in various combinations and...