Last Century
…ers so that they no longer resemble the original icon. It comes back to jazz, in a way, in that jazz players learn the ‘changes’ then learn ‘substitutions’ for those changes, and ways of navigating those chords and tropes. If we keep extrapolating, and the icon becomes more and more remote, are we still playing the same song? Does it even matter? Or…
The Bay Window
…me exercise of total improvisation.” —Stéphane Ollivier, Jazz Magazine Kartet’s music is angular, tonally open, polyrhythmically swinging, and very polished. Their radical reworking of Monk’s “Misterioso” has a trancey, moonlit dream-logic – Parisian Third Stream. The whole album is a sensuous deep listening experience with a unique weave of forms…
Dreams and False Alarms
…al complexity within the framework of 11 non-traditional jazz compositions is, while out of the ordinary, a worthwhile voyage…There is nothing vaguely approaching hard swing within, but for those looking for an intellectual yet heartfelt introspective approach to the music of today, Milne presents exciting possibilities…Highlights include a deeply m…
Ghost of Electricity
…** “…modern jazz with a fresh yet curiously interesting slant…” — Glenn Astarita, AllAboutJazz.com…
Sandhills Reunion
…jazz-tinged efforts of 2005.” – Glenn Astarita, AllAboutJazz.com “Granelli’s music…has a spare, windswept quality well suited to Rinde Eckert’s plainspoken words…” A Minus – Tom Hull, Village Voice “…this journey takes the listener through a linked sequence of internal monologues…The tracks flow so well together that it is impossible to skip or rer…
The V-16 Project
…lli’s favorite place to dwell…” — Nils Jacobson, AllAboutJazz.com “In the liners, drummer Jerry Granelli mentions, ‘the heart of the band is risk, not knowing, curiosity and nowness.’ In effect, this quasi blues-jazz improvisational rock centric outing is entrenched within various non-formulaic events. The mixture of composed material and explorativ…
Stillpoint
…te something genuinely new. His effort is extremely successful.” — Nils Jacobson, AllAboutJazz.com…
Four in One
…But Four in One gets awfully darn close.” — Ken Waxman, Jazzweekly.com “A dozen years ago, Lester Bowie recorded an album called Serious Fun, which might serve well for this disc, too, though Misha Mengelberg & Co. drink more deeply from both parts of the title. Mengelberg is a Dutch pianist-composer whose style has roots in Monk, Mingus, Herbie Ni…
Samuel Blaser
…Rene Laanen of USA Trombone Online has called Blaser “one of today’s finest trombonists.”…
Hacienda
…w Jones, Montreal Mirror “Hacienda reveals Houle’s unique compositional sensibility…The complex title suite, a sort of klezmer rhapsody, incorporates succinct improvisational statements that are fully integrated with ensemble support…One can’t help admiring Houle’s beautifully woody tone in the low register during his own solos.” – Steve Hahn, Optio…
