[This interview was originally published in July 2000.] Founded in 1983, Mosaic Records continues to set the standards as one of the finest reissue companies on the scene. Their definitive boxed sets have culled the vaults of such labels as Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, Capitol, CBS, Verve, Roulette, Decca, Atlantic, and Reprise. Some of the artists to have been represented by these luxury sets have included...
This is my reproduction of the inner tray card of the Sun Ra CD, "Music from Tomorrow's World" (Atavistic, 2002). L-r: Marshall Allen, Jon L. Hardy, John Gilmore, Sun Ra, Ronnie Boykins, George Hudson. (Credit: the original photo was transferred and restored by John McCortney, AirWave Studio, Chicago.) Allen, Gilmore, Boykins and Hudson are all wearing fezzes (tarabish). See my earlier post...
MORGAN’S MOTION Tony Williams Lifetime The Joy of Flying Sony : 1978 TW, drums; Cecil Taylor, piano. Here’s a deep cut that not many people know about. Tony Williams’ eclectic Joy of Flying is an R&B inflected album filled with collaborations with the likes of Jan Hammer, George Benson, Tom Scott, and even rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose. To be honest, [...]
Radio Rondo was recorded at a Swiss jazz festival in May of 2008. The program is split into two halves, the first of which is a Irene Schweizer solo; the second, featuring the pianist in the company of bassist Barry Guy and his longstanding orchestra. What makes the music notable is the degree to which it's reflective of fearsome intelligence at work. As a pianist, Schweizer has taken the time-honored...
Marilyn Crispell & Ron Silliman An evening of poetry & improvised music Saturday, January 30, 7:30 PM Recital Hall, Pima Center for the Arts Pima Community College West Campus 2202 West Anklam , Tucson $10 for tickets at Bentley's & at Antigone Books , or $8 from Chax Press (if purchased from Chax Press directly, before the night of the event), $15 at the door . Seating is limited to 120...
Signs Along The Road Henry Grimes Soft cover; 128 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-020142-4 Buddy's Knife 2007 Bassist Henry Grimes was one of the leading lights on the free jazz scene in the 1960s, playing with many of the music's most famous names, including pianist Cecil Taylor , multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry , reed player Pharoah Sanders and saxophonist Albert Ayler . Financial struggle forced him away...
This week, let's check out some videos featuring Douglas Ewart , a multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder who will be in St. Louis on Saturday, January 30 to perform in a duo concert with bassist Zimbabwe Nkenya at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Born in Jamaica in 1956, Ewart moved to Chicago as a teenager and became involved with the city's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ....
Guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil continues to push beyond the outer reaches of the guitar universe, building on the work of pioneers like Derek Bailey and Fred Frith . His career trajectory takes him ever farther from the jazz mother lode, and his last outing--on Totem> 's Solar Forge (ESP, 2008)--stretched the boundaries of the guitar power trio to breaking point. Before that he had a series of fine releases...
Kevin Blechdom (USA) feat. Barnwave + Greg Malcolm & Jenny Ward Wunderbar, Lyttelton Thursday January 7 $10 Kevin Blechdom is a musician from Tallahassee, Florida, whose solo and collaborative work – as a member of Blectum from Blechdom and Adult Rodeo and as a duo with Eugene Chadbourne – has appeared on labels such as Kid606’s Tigerbeat6 (DJ /rupture, Indian Jewelry, Quintron...
Evan Parker Residency The Stone East Village, Manhattan New York, New YorkOctober 1-16, 2009 Rivaled only, in recent memory, by Cecil Taylor 's 1988 "Kongresshalle" collaborations in Berlin,* Evan Parker's residency at The Stone in East Village, Manhattan was, like those, a string of assorted and inventive pairings. In this case the participants were largely fixtures of the "downtown...
Matthew Bourne (keyboards) & Christophe de Bezenac (alto saxophone) + Spelk: Chris Sharkey (guitar), Andy Champion (electric bass) & Adrian Tilbrook (drums). Splinter @ The Bridge offered another double bill last night in the form of local heroes Spelk and from Leeds the improvising duo of Bourne and de Bezenac. Spelk played the first set to a less than full house; perhaps the close proximity...
You report that generally pharmacists "save the day" by spotting hospital doctors' prescribing errors before they cause harm ( Junior doctors make errors in 8% of prescriptions , 3 December). However, the day – and the patient – may be less likely to be saved in the future. All the chief pharmacists I have talked to are having to cut their spending on staff – the smallest...
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