Tag: Free Jazz Blog
Fourteen minutes long and packed from start to its all-too-soon finish with energy, drummer Devin Gray’s GPS Trio is a compact and powerful firecracker of an album. Just judging from the names of the GPS, you can pretty much form an opinion on what the group will sound like: G for Gray, a thoughtful composer and a fierce free player. Then th…
A couple of years ago I picked up a book edited by Renata Da Rin and William Parker called Giving Birth to Sound: Women in Creative Music. It came to mind as I was reading Sammy Stein’s new Women in Jazz as the topic obviously intertwined a bit. Both books incorporate interviews heavily into their construction, but whereas Giving Birth to…
THEORAL nos 1 – 14. Photo from theoral website.
withPhilipp Schmickl
This weekend the Free Jazz Blog featured the writing ofPhilipp Schmickl, who has been running the publication THEORALfrom his home in Nickelsdorf, Austria. To cap off his coverage of the Alternative Festival, we conducted a short Q&A by email, discussing growing up in th…
Garden Party is an engaging and fun work that teams up some heavyweights like saxophonist Kidd Jordan, bassist William Parker, and drummer Alvin Fielder with younger musicians saxophonist Chad Fowler and pianist Chris Parker, as well as vocalist Kelley Hurt. It is Fielder’s final recording, as he fell sick and passed away after it’s
reco…
Sigmar Polke – Ohne Titel (Schallplatten)
Here it is, the long awaited top album of 2019! Culled from the top 10 lists of the collective, we then conducted a poll among all contributors over the past year and now we’re happy to announce this year’s winners.
The top spot goes to Matana Roberts’ Coin Coin Chapter 4: Memphis. Roberts is not new to…
Eric Stern introducing at Eric’s House of Improv
We are sad to report that Eric Stern, 54, a contributor to the blog, passed away earlier this month. Eric had been dealing with serious health issues for a number of years, but did not let it damper his enthusiasm for live (and recorded) music. Over the past year or so, Eric had been organizing “E…
Anthony Braxton, No. 289
This past year has been a dynamic one for the blog: we welcomed a bunch of new ears to the collective, received over 2000 recordings and requests for reviews, and counted over 1.63 million pageviews. We reported on festivals in the USA (Big Ears, No Idea, Vision Fest and Winter Jazz Fest) and Europe (Wels Unlimited, Jazz…
By Keith Prosk and Paul Acquaro
Momentum 4 is a box set of duo recordings by Ken Vandermark, recorded at the Elastic Sound Studios in Chicago in 2015 and 2019, and at NYC’s Stone in January 2018. The idea was to capture rare duo performances – even if the musical relationships have been ago long established.
In our review, we have deviated fro…
Petra Cvelbar by Aleksandra Sasa Prelesnik
By Eyal Hareuveni and Paul Acquaro
What are some of your recent projects?
I have two projects concerning music: one is titled Sweet Addiction, wich includes my best music photos. Three years ago I made a small book-diary as promotion of upcoming exhibitions under that title. Besides that, I also hav…
Yeah, it’s that time again! Last year, Mars William’s Ayler Xmas rolled through Berlin and in a packed cellar club the quartet blazed through a set-list full of holiday madness, with Christmas and Chanukka favorites being lovingly deconstructed and glued back together with abandon. The show was even better than the album – Volume II – that had…
We continue our celebration of the 50thAnniversary of ECM with three favorite ECM recordings from each of our writers. Please note, there is no order to sequence of writers…
Lee Rice Epstein
Lester Bowie
The Great Pretender (1981)
All the Magic! (1983)
I Only Have Eyes For You (1985)
Channeling, honoring, and spoofing Louis Armstrong…
Ziga Koritnik by Mats Aleklint
By Eyal Hareuveniand Paul Acquaro
This profile is the first part of a short series of profiles on photographers focusing on the creative music scene.
What are some of your recent projects?
For last few years I have been working on my new book of music
photography Cloud Arrangers. We published it in January …
