By Eyal Hareuveni
The Danish, Trondheim, Norway-based alto sax player Mette Rasmussen and American drummer have been performing as a duo continuously for the last two years. The duo’s free-improvised music benefits from these gifted musicians accumulated experiences. Corsano’s resume stretches from free jazz legends as sax players Joe McPhee, …
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Nate Wooley’s Battle Pieces is a thoughtfully conceived album by the NYC based trumpeter and composer. The ‘battle pieces’ have been deliberately designed as ‘backdrops’ for the group, which is Wooley, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, pianist Sylvie Courvoisierand vibraphonist Matt Moran, to play off. The instrumentation leaves alot of room …
Dear readers (and fans) of the Free Jazz Collective,
You may have noticed that we have a new lay-out for our website, which is fantastic news after so many years with the same visuals and lay-out. The new look is accessible, it looks more professional and of higher quality.
We hope that the new features will be able to facilitate access and co…
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It was a recent Friday, at the tail end of a long week, and I was making my daily slog to the train. I needed to listen to something that could ease me into the day. So scrolling through my iPod, I hit upon Danish guitarist Jakob Bro’s Gefion. It was an album that had been on my short list for a long time, and the time seemed right… …
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I will start my review with a sentence written by our colleague Paul Acquaro for the two previous Lama albums reviewed on this blog :
“The pieces fit together so tightly that there’s hardly room for a wasted note, beat or breath as the musicians move gracefully through the set of songs, nimbly riding the contours between structur…
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‘Burn Unit’ is a pulse quickening way to kick off any album. A simple staccato melody is played in unison until it breaks, splintering free, letting musical statements explode with purposeful energy. The piece is a not so gentle introduction to the powerful and musically adventurousWestern Automaticby the Chicago Reed Quartet.
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Bassist Máximo Endrek is an Córdoba, Argentina based musician whose work spans free and traditional jazz as well as orchestral music, and this trio outing with pianist Mariano Vélez and drummer Matías Romero is an excellent introduction to his improvised side. Whether the melody is explicit or implied, the piano prepared or straigh…
By Tom Burris
From the outset, this rhythm section can do Henry Threadgill’s Zooid. Devin Gray (drums) and Chris Tordini (bass) have that thing down pat. Reedman Chris Speed and pianist Kris Davis are mixed in (mostly) separate channels and this works well, as they frequently play counterpoint with each other over the top of the amazing s…
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil has already released two excellent albums on ECM. These efforts – the eponymous debut and the follow up Shadow Man were the works of an acoustic quartet and on the newYou’ve Been Watching Me, alto saxophonist Berne expands the group to a quintet and introduces electric elements to the mix, expanding the textures and possi…
I began listening to Matthew Shipp in the early 2000s, drawn in by the ambient and electronics on albums like NuBop and Harmony and Abyss, I soon discovered that there was little of Shipp’s output that I did not enjoy. Whether solo, in a duo or with his long standing trio with Whit Dickey and Michael Bisio, his playing is always striking, and…
The concert for Secret Keeper’s latest recording Emerge was at the Cornelia Street Cafe – and down in the cozy basement club space, it felt a bit like being in on a well kept secret itself. It was an intimate show as the duo of guitarist Mary Halvorson and bassist Stephen Crump captivated the attentive crowd for the evening.
Emergeis the pair…
I recently covered a duo recording of guitarist Dom Minasi paired with saxophonist Blaise Siwula. Last year, I wrote about onewith pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, and another with Hans Tammen. The duo format seems to be one that Minasi enjoys, and for that I’m greatful, as his latest with soprano sax player Chris Kelsey,Duets NYC/Woodstock, is a…
