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Over the course of the week, the Free Jazz Blog is taking stock of some recent recordings featuring the guitar. We begin today with a focus on solo guitar; Tuesday, the delicious fire of the power trio; Wednesday some other configurations; Thursday it isexperimental and noise; and Friday, a couple of guitarists who are pushing the boundaries of the…
As 2013 barrels along, the Free Jazz Blog is still hoping to sneak in some mentions of albums that came out over the past year that somehow slipped past. However, I will actually begin with a new release that is at once fresh, frightening and fascinating.
Matt Turner/Hal Rammel- Fractures and Phantoms (Penumbra Music, 2013) ***½
Matt Turne…
Halfway through Dom Minasi’s The Bird, the Girl and the Donkey IIthe theme of Yankee Doodle spills out of Minasi’s guitar. You can faintly hear appreciative laughter and then after a tiny pause, the band explodes, rapidly deconstructing the theme into shreds of musical confetti. The episode ends with the sax chattering and Minasi hitting elemen…
Well, it seems to have happened again, a double review by the Paolo’s of the Free Jazz Blog…
Joe Morris, Agustí Fernández, Nate Wooley – From the Discrete to the Particular (Relative Pitch, 2012) ****
By Paolo Casertano
Being perfectly aware that a trio featuring Joe Morris on guitar, Agustí Fernández on piano and Nate Wooley on…
I’m obviously late to the Mostly Other People Do the Killing party. I have covered several of the individual musicians on their own recording and in other groups, but while IknewMOPDtK was out there, I was not in theknow. But, I’ll stop this now, this review isn’t about me, it’s about New York based group and their unique approach to creating …
A write up of some recent releases from the label OutNow has been on my mind for a bit of time now. After catching an exciting release event at Shapeshifter in Brooklyn in late November I’ve been digging into this batch, enjoying immensely…
9 Volt – Open Circuit (OutNow, 2012) ****½
Guitarist Eyal Maoz appeared recently on Shanir Ezra…
Living Jelly is saxophonist Ivo Perelman with drummer Gerald Cleaver and guitaristJoe Morris. The group’s improvised approach to the recording is described by Morris as:
… being held together by an instantaneously configured natural structure that is built on an evolving melodic and rhythmic form, made with one sound or silence at a time. The…
There is an elusive moment when music transports you to another place. Possibly a combination of music, exhaustion level, blood sugar levels and some other factors I have yet to pinpoint, it’s wonderfully hard to achieve and seemingly impossible to force. I recall such an occurrence once while standing in New York’s Penn Station listening to …
Allright, here they are then, the albums of the year 2012 as selected by the entire review team of the Free Jazz Collective. Each reviewer presented his (unfortunately not her) list of the ten best albums of the year. Based on the commonalities between those lists, we selected the top-10 that we all favoured.
The Free Jazz Collective Top-10 albu…
Samuel Blaser is a trombonist and composer who has been garnering well deserved attention in the avant garde jazz scene over the past couple of years and the NYC/Berlin based musician has recently released a great new album on hatOLOGY records.
As The Sea, like the sea, is a both a tranquil and violent entity, four musicians contributing to a…
Stanislav Bobrytskyy & Mikhail Paramzin – Draft Communication (self released, 2012) ****
Keyboardist Stanislav Bobrytskyy, whom we first covered back in Spring, is back, and this time with guitarist Mikhail Paramzin. Like last time, the duo format seems to fit Bobrytskyy well, his playing is intimate and he is a supportive listener unaf…
It’s been a bit since we’ve done this, but Paolo and Paulbothcould not help bursting into spontaneous prose on this new release from Paradoxical Frog…
Paradoxical Frog – Union (Clean Feed, 2012) ****½
By Paolo Casertano
What a fascinating album! If you have the chance, as I did, to listen to it in a rainy day and with a pair of comfortable …
