Jazz : Not Jazz
Joseph Daley – The Seven Heavenly Virtues The Seven Deadly Sins – (JODA Music) This glorious suite of music is reminiscent of suites composed for the Mass by classical composers like Bach and Mozart but is not tied to any specific doctrine or faith. Meditations and proclamations on the nature of what we do in […]
HIGH ART: These releases are brilliant, thoughtful and uber musical Victor Gould – Thoughts Become Things – (Blue Room Music) Pianist/Composer Gould and a large ensemble including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and saxophonists Dayna Stephens and Godwin Louis explore his densely textured and brilliantly framed reflections. Laurence Hobgood – Tesseterra – (Ubuntu) Brilliant arrangements of familiar […]
Adison Evans – Meridian – (AdiTone Music) Baritone sax is implicitly gendered because of its lower register. It also is used more frequently in harmony than as a lead instrument. Well Adison Evans gleefully destroys stereotypes in this funk driven mainstream romp which periodically zig zags across genres from baroque to the blues. With tenor […]
Joe Lovano/Marilyn Crispell/Carmen Castaldi Trio – Tapestry – (ECM) Lovano is among the most revered saxophonists in jazz. Thirty years with Paul Motian after starting with Woody Herman and Mel Lewis, collaborations with maybe jazz’s finest pianist, Hank Jones, master arranger and dean of third stream music (jazz/classical admixture), Gunther Schuller, and avant garde master […]
Dave Liebman and Friends – On the Corner Live!: The Music of Miles Davis – (Ear Up Records) Miles Davis was always a moving target. He was the bridge between Charlie Parker and the distant future. During the late 60’s to mid 70’s he shattered the walls between rock and jazz not by making stylistic […]
AACM Great Black Music Ensemble – Live @ The Currency Exchange Cafe Volume 1 – (AACM) The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, founded in Chicago over 50 years ago, has sought to offer folks who seek to elude genre traps the opportunity to collaborate and support each other. By replacing the marketing sobriquet […]
(Above: KUCI’s Jazz Director Hobart Taylor and JALC’s Wynton Marsalis) Represent. That’s what I did for KUCI and our listeners at the Jazz Congress January 7 and 8 held at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center and later that week at NYC’s Winter JazzFest. Jazz Congress is a series of meetings,seminars, and presentations, bringing […]
Aaron Shragge & Ben Monder – This world of Dew – (Human Resource Records) This suite composed by Shragge who plays the dragon mouth trumpet, flugelhorn, and shakuhachi is based on inspiration by various poets, Issa, Basho, Li Po, Son, and Bukowski. Electric guitarist Monder, noted for his atmospheric and liquid style echoes Shragge’s evocation […]