Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seattle’s 20th annual Earshot Jazz Festival presents more than 50 one-of-a-kind events in concert halls, clubs,
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Any subversion of the piano trio tradition as manifested in the clinical virtuosity of a technocratic elite is always welcome, and it's present here in abundance. This is not however to suggest that this trio lacks technique, it's just that the music they produce is so free of the constraints of any overt tradition that the results are compelling...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Pianist Marilyn Crispell finds lyrical beauty in the intersection of contemporary classical music and jazz.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Joelle Leandre and Kevin Norton Winter in New York 2006 Leo Records 2007 Joelle Leandre / Marilyn Crispell / Roy Campbell, Jr. / Mat Maneri The Stone Quartet DMG/ARC 2008 Joelle Leandre / Pascal Contet Freeway Clean Feed 2007 There's one thing that, perhaps above all else, sets JoA lle LA(C)andre apart from the pack. True she's a fantastically talented bassist. She has a huge singing voice that is...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
This intensely contemplative solo suite of 17 pieces by the 61-year-old Philly-born pianist is resolutely uningratiating but ultimately very rewarding.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Music Reviews: As one of the more iconoclastic pianists of her generation, Marilyn Crispell can sometimes find it difficult to hit upon a sympathetic setting for her elegiac, languidly free playing.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
A relative latecomer to jazz, occupying the classical and contemporary composition spheres until the age of 28, Marilyn Crispell's early ventures into jazz and improvised music were in the context of a more aggressive approach informed by Cecil Taylor. Over the past decade, however, while the pianist's sense of adventure hasn't diminished, she's introduced a sparer lyricism, making three previous ECM...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Continuing apologies for lack of blog presence... lingering illness (cough bloody cough) and another project that I am way behind on (the CD/Download label) have taken my time... so here are three tracks to re-start the fandango... Holding the bop line in 1957... on the West Coast... Curtis Counce , another who went too young (died in 1963), a respected bass player around and about, formed his group...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
The Art of the (Frisell) Trio Tonight marks the first time Bill Frisell, Ron Carter and Paul Motian will perform together as a trio in a live setting. All three are widely regarded as masters of their craft, with Carter’s resume including names like Dolphy, Miles, Hancock, Shorter and Montgomery on the list, while Motian has been “hittin’ the skins” with luminaries such as Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/11/2007
UMO Jazz Fest Bio Rex Theatre and Temppeliaukio Church (Marilyn Crispell concert only) Helsinki, Finland August 30-September 2, 2007 For the 5th annual UMO Jazz Fest in Helsinki, Finland, UMO Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Fest Executive Director Annamaija Saarela faced the unenviable task of having to find a new home for the festival outside the UMO Jazz House club (in prior years it had customarily served...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/07/2007
Norwegian trumpeter/composer Gunhild Seim lives in Stavanger, where many Norwegian musicians who play outside the ECM school--including reed player Frode Gjerstad, trumpeter Didrik Ingvaldsen, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and organist Nils Henrik Asheim--developed their musical language for free improvisation. Seim is one of the leaders of the local ensemble, Kitchen Orchestra, and leads her own quartet...
CD Reviews by C60Crew (Free subscription) | 08/23/2007
Bob Burnett: It finally rained in the Washington, DC area. It seems like it's been dry and dusty all summer. Thank goodness for the rain.....I can now play "rainy day music" and Tati qualifies as such. Tati is a trio made up of trumpeter Enrico Rava, pianist Stefano Bollani and stalwart c60 living legend Paul Motian on drums. This, being an ECM album, means there are very telltale ECM qualities about...
church number nine (Free subscription) | 08/10/2007
Marilyn Crispell - Piano Peter Brötzmann - Clarinet, Saxophone, Tarogato Hamid Drake - Drums, Hand Drums 1 Hyperion I - 20:22 2 Hyperion II - 13:36 3 Hyperion III - 15:21 This is for McClintic Sphere, who has made numerous contributions to the Church (probably unnoticed by many! but to the Braxton hardcore he is a God!!) I also have the Crispell, Hemmingway Duo which I had planned to post along side...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/17/2007
aoeEvery once in a while, the saxophonist and drummer just have to be alone.a So said the venerable tenorist Benny Golson in concert a few years ago, a coy grin creeping over his face, before launching himself into the stratosphere against his drummer of the evening. aoeAgainst,a because thata(TM)s often the form the sax/drums duet takes--a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners, raucously unrestrained...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/28/2007
South African percussionist, American pianist join for night of jazz improvisation at An die Musik Freedom, whether it is musical or political, is something that South African jazz percussionist Louis Moholo-Moholo can appreciate.
