Kieran Hebden/ Steve Reid/ Mats Gustafsson Live at the South Bank (Smalltown Superjazz) When music is this feral, this uninhibited, this experimental, even the label “freejazz” is an insufficient description. For all its unrestrained probing, the music on this double-disc set was recorded live in a miniscule setting during the [...]
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Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band The Sweet Science Suite
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band The Sweet Science Suite (Mutable/Big Red Media) In 2008, Brooklyn-based baritone saxophonist Fred Ho organized the Green Monster Big Band as a musical ensemble capable of depicting his defiant,radical resistanceto racism while he simultaneously battled advanced colorectal cancer. Hohas since lost his [...]
Read more >>Claire Daly Quintet Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Claire Daly Quintet Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose (Daly Bread) This album is so enjoyable that knowledge ofits subject matter is hardly a prerequisite forappreciation. Certainly, the backstory of ClaireDaly’s cousin, Mary Joyce, who undertook athree-month solo trip by dogsled from Juneauto Fairbanks in the mid-1930s, is compelling.(See accompanying [...]
Read more >>Roberto Magris Quintet Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol. 1
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011Roberto Magris Quintet Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol 1. Tribute recordings have been common in jazz at least since Fletcher Henderson’s 1931 version of “Singing the Blues,” which had cornetist Rex Stewart paying homage to Bix Beiderbecke. One can play note-for-note re-creations, be creative within the format [...]
Read more >>Karrin Allyson ‘Round Midnight
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011Karrin Allyson ‘Round Midnight (Concord Records) In an era when more and more music lovers download individual songs, many artists are eschewing the concept of the album. But not Karrin Allyson. The singer sees [i]‘Round Midnight[i], her most recent release for the Concord label, as a batch of meaningful tunes [...]
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