Tag: Free Jazz Blog
Cagematchis a sax, guitar and drum out of the Washington, DC area. On soprano and alto sax is Kate Olson, a member of recent blog favorite Syrinx Effect.Joining Olson here is guitarist Gary Prince and drummer Tim Cohen. The sum of their efforts is captivating mix of hypnotic melody and atmosphere that unfolds expertly over the course of ‘Missin…
ByPaul Acquaro
Schrödingers Cat is named after the famous quantum physics thought experiment that allowed for a cat to be both alive and dead at the same time. In the case of this trio, the cat’s alive, and it is moving quite beautifully inside the box.
Paulo Brusò uses his guitar to develop lovely textures for Riccardo Marogna’s bass…
Here on the FJB, we often cite free jazz pioneer clarinetist JimmyGiuffrefor his album “Free Fall”,but a couple of years before his trio with guitarist Jim Hall spawned the hit “The Train and the River”, which Giuffre described as “blues-based folk jazz”…
Bill Frisell – Guitar in the Space Age (Okeh, 2014) ****½
ByMartin Schray
Bill Fri…
Day three of guitar week – we’re into trios now and there seems to be quite a lot of them!
Jakob Thorkild Trio – Art Sleaze (Tyrfing, 2014) ****
By Chris Haines
This power trio has the attitude of punk, the sounds of heavy rock and the exploration of freely improvised music. At times the sound is slightly reminiscent of another Scandi…
Day two of guitar week … duo recordings!
Joe Sachse & Nils Wogram – Free & Tremendous (Jazzwerkstatt, 2014) ****½
I am thinking about the bookWoodstock am Karpfenteich: Die Jazzwerkstatt Peitz which recalls the underground free jazz festival in 1970’s East Germany. A DVD of the latter day ‘comeback concert’ has Joe Sachse and f…
An occasional series where we delve into recent guitar related releases. We’re kicking off guitar week with a set of solo guitar recordings…
Manuel Mota – Blackie and Headlights
By Chris Haines
The Portuguese guitarist occasionally finds himself being compared to Derek Bailey. This is not a comparison that I have ever bought into as I have…
The guitar duo is one of my favorite musical settings – it has it all: camaraderie and creativity, volume and versatility, and so many vibrating strings. In late spring of 2012 I caught the then new duo of Nels Cline and Julian Lage playing as an opening act at a show at Le Poisson Rouge and their music has been lodged in the back of my min…
Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano’sLow Cost Space Flightsis a tough recording that has no fear of a high pitched squawk or a tumble of the drums. I wonder, as I sit here enrapt with the music pouring out of the speakers, what drives discerning listeners to seek out such difficult music?
Maybe one reason is that the music is from such an honest …
ByPaul Acquaro and Martin Schray
Before we start with the review let’s bow humbly before Joe Lizzi and Ben Young, the men behind Triple Point Records, a small label which has released only three albums so far. But these albums are Cecil Taylor’s/Tony Oxley’s double LP Ailanthus/Altissima (Taylor’s last release) and New York Art Quartet…
New York based Anna Webber’s saxophone work is kind of like Tim Berne’s in its angularity and wit. Spare and precise, the patterns and logical progressions she uses creates a self-contained world of sound.
From the album’s strong start with ‘Carnophobia’, you get the sense that the songs are sketches, templates made of musical cues …
Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Blue (Hot Cup, 2014) ***
Mostly Other People Do the Killing is a group that has created an identity on creative parody, musical juxtaposition and incredible technical facility. Their albums have been given pretty rave reviews here … just going back a few years we covered the live Coimbra Concert, their…
When live electronics are well done the results are often unique and rewarding, which just so happens to be the case with exciting electro/acoustic trio Tesla Coils. Comprised of sax, electric guitar and laptop, these skilled and daring musicians bring to life the brilliant Tesla coil metaphor. Like cool blue lightening bolts trapped in a gla…
