Tag: Free Jazz Blog
This trio of drummer Jeff Cosgrove’s, featuring saxophonist Scott Robinson (an true musical maverick who recently released an excellent homage to Sun Ra’s legendary Heliocentric Worlds recordings), and the fearless bassist Ken Filiano (the Brooklyn based musician seems to be everywhere the action is!), has released a wonderfully rich collabo…
Last year, Mar William’s released Volume 1 of An Ayler Xmas, this year, the saxophonist has followed up with Volume 2, which is another celebratory mash up of holiday music delivered in the style of Albert Ayler and with reference to his signature melodies.
Unlike the first volume that was recorded with his Ayler tribute group Witches and De…
Ken Vandermark’s restless musical imagination is well documented with theMomentum series, which began with his massive collection of improvised work from his residency at the Stone in NYC in January 2016, and continues this year with a double disc release of two composed works “Brüllt” and “Monster Roster.”
Momentum 2: Brüllt…
Thursday, November 1st
The Haus der Berliner Festspiele is a mid-century modern split-level architectural gem and it is more than a stones throw away from the typical environs for Berlin experimental jazz, like the scrappy Soweiso or Donau115, or even the slick Radial System V, host to the annual A’Larme Festival. But for a long weekend this mon…
The People Band (l-r): Paul Jolly, George Kahn, Terry Day, Mike Figgis, Charly Hart, Davey Payne.
Photo courtesy Fotoarchiv exploratorium berlin
Tucked away on an upper floor of a re-purposed chocolate factory in Berlin’s Kreutzberg neighborhood sits the Exploratorium. Hosting workshops and concerts with a focus on improvised music, the cente…
Uncompahgre is the sixth highest peak in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The word is from the Ute language and means “dirty water”, in reference to the red spring water from the area. I don’t know if this was flowing through the minds of cornetist Kirk Knuffke and clarinetist Ben Goldberg when they got together and came up with these set of im…
Polyorchard – Red October (Out and Gone Music, 2017) ****
I swear I heard somewhere in the middle of ‘I Would’, the first track off of Polyorchard’s Red October,a ring tone going off. As a live recording, it could be anyone’s phone ringing, but regardless, the sound fits. The track began scattered with Shawn Galvin’s percussion and fricti…
The Orion Congregation is a group out of Berlin, a mix of Malian, Nigerian, and German musicians, which caught my ear recently when I was poking around at a small record shop off of Berlin’s Boxhagener Platz. Ahmed Ag Kaedy, the Malian guitarist, is the group’s leader, and his group is Johannes Schleiermacher on synth and sax, Michael Wehme…
August 15 – 18, 2018. Oslo, Norway
Entering the courtyward, on the way to Cafe Mir
It was Saturday, the last of the Blow Out festival, when an opportunity arose to sit down with drummers and festival organizers Paal Nilssen-Love and Stale Liavik Solberg at a small trattoria in the hipGrünerløkkaneighborhood of Oslo. I had my list of questio…
You really cannot ask for a more serene setting than the Kunststation Kleinsassan, a small art museum nestled in the Rhön mountains of central Germany. Against the setting sun outside the panoramic windows of the cafe, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach and saxophonist Frank Paul Schubert performed two intimate sets of music to a captivat…
My first realization that the 1970s was an unusual time for jazz came when I discovered Pablo Records. I had just started listening to and collecting jazz recordings, and at the time CDs were expensive and records were really really really cheap, so I picked up a lot of them. One was Dizzy’s Big Fourwith Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Joe Pass, …
Part II of a tribute to Polish Trumpeter Tomasz Stańko. See part I here.
Tomasz Stańko – Bluish (Power Bros, 1991)
By Colin Green
On Bluish, Tomasz Stańko is joined by Arild Andersen (acoustic and electric bass) and
Jon Christensen (drums), a Norwegian rhythm section that is so much more.
On this album Stańko’s playing has all…
