Tag: Free Jazz Blog
Is it once a decade that we listeners are entitled to an entirely acoustic Medeski, Martin and Wood album? At the start of the 90’s their debut “Notes from the Underground” set a high bar. 2000’s “Tonic”, a live album titled after the now defunct New York City performance space, came out after several organ and keyboard oriented recordings. And …
We are waking up slowly, somewhere unexpected. Small sounds are creeping into our consciousness, clicks, moans — slightly spooky — suggesting a less than desirable near future. We begin to focus and clicks become tones, sounds begin to connect, we realize that we are being spoken to, but in a strange dialect. Soon we realize that this language,…
I must admit that is has taken me a little while for me to get into this album. I liked the Edmonton, Canada based trio’s first recording, “Uninvited” with keyboardist Jamie Saft and had been looking forward to hearing their work with Wayne Horvitz. The core of this somewhat unusual combo is made up of Craig Brenan on trombone, Jeff Johnson on ac…
Dom Minasi Quintet – The Bird, the Girl and the Donkey – (Re:Konstrukt, 2010)
Joe Morris & Luther Gray – Creatures – (Not Two, 2010)
A black and white cartoon panel series with their conversation bubbles empty graces The Girl, the Bird and the Donkey, while Creatures presents a black and white pattern of birds in flight. Both of these cove…
This quiet brooding recording with its gentle pulse of solo guitar is underscored with just a trace of foreboding, as if there were something lurking unseen just beyond its edges. With the spare instrumentation there is an absence that is more felt than heard. I write this not to scare you off, but rather to pique your interests. This is a beaut…
In the closing song of Finally Out of My Hands, there is an eight-bit electronic sound is used that is achingly familiar. The tiny melody is woven into the song so craftily that it takes me a little while to place it. It has been a long time, but it stirs old memories of afternoons spent on an Nintendo game where you jump on turtles and pop gold…
