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Tony Oxley and Derek Bailey The Advocate Tzadik 2007 Mark O'Leary and Han Bennink Television Ayler Records 2008 Mary Halvorson and Weasel Walter Opulence UG Explode 2008 In creative music, the most obvious place to start with the duo is breath and rhythm. From the Tuareg of Algeria to the fife-and-drum corps of the South, that basic inclination towards projected air and amplified heartbeat is what...
artwork: jenniferrahfeldt.com dane recordings duet: walter thompson, as/ olle karlsson, b clean feed a calculus of loss : jason stein's locksmith isidore-j. stein, bcl/ kevin davis, cello/ mike pride, perc emanem barking side : alexander hawkins, p/ dominic lash, b/ paul may, perc/ alex ward, cl ayler records Unified Fields, New Language Collaborative : Eric Zinman, p/ Mario Rechtern, reeds/ Glynis...
No exploration of Cecil Taylor can be complete without mention of his longtime cohort, partner in crime, and foil, Jersey City-born alto saxophonist, Jimmy Lyons, who played with Cecil from 1961 until his death in 1986. It's hard to overestimate...
henceforth Sucker Punch Requiem - An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat: Lisle Ellis, bass, electronics, sound design/ Pamela Z, voice and electronics/ Holly Hofmann, flutes/ Oliver Lake, saxophones/ George Lewis, trombone/ Mike Wofford, piano/ Susie Ibarra, drums and percussion clean feed a calculus of loss : jason stein's locksmith isidore-j. stein, bcl/ kevin davis, cello/ mike pride, perc octal, book...
Fred Anderson/William Parker at The Living Theatre To hear Fred Anderson without a drummer behind him is at least a little like hearing a different horn player altogether. He did it at the 2003 Vision Festival in a duo with bassist Harrison Bankhead (documented on CD by Ayler Records) and did it again Dec. 7th with William Parker at The Living Theatre, in another Vision concert. Anderson is a player...
November 2007, Sweden -- Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut (New York City) is chosen as the first living artist to have a box set released by the Scandinavian record label Ayler Records. Shurdut's Box Set documents the artist's journey into Environmental Tuning with the players who have been a part of his revolutionary vision...
Jeff Marx and Jeff Siegel Dreamstuff Ayler Records 2007 Eddie Prevost and Alan Wilkinson so are we, so are we Matchless Recordings 2006 William Hooker and Sabir Mateen Dharma Kordova Milk Bar Records 2007 Duo performance is one of the most revealing venues for a performer. While as exposed as if performing solo, the inclusion of another musician into the creative process forces accountability. Many...
Youa(TM)ve heard the news: The music business is in shambles. Major labels have seen computers take a big bite out of their profits and rather than adapt, they prefer to sue. Independent labels arena(TM)t faring much better and independent jazz labels are faring worse than that. Foreign labels even have to contend with a declining dollar, raising prices on the members of their already shallow pool...
This Swiss duo has been experimenting with creative avant-garde jazz for a long time. Tonia(TM)s Delight: Live in Seoul (Cadence Jazz, 1997) combined tension and release in a free-flowing format similar to that employed here for their Ayler Records release. Guerino Mazzolaa(TM)s grand piano fingers move like a storm front that wants to hurt the keyboard. At his side, drummer Heinz Geisser provides...
Three poems by Emily Brontë: Spellbound (1) , A little while a little while (2) and My Lady's Grave (3) are the inspiration behind Michel Lambert's free jazz album 'Unclouded Day': Michel Lambert Unclouded Day Ayler Records (March 2007) Michel Lambert, drums Raoul Björkenheim, guitar Jeannette Lambert, vocals (3,7,9) Mat Maneri, vln 1. Moonless 2. Clouds Beyond Clouds 3. A Little While, a Little While...
Francois Carrier lives his life and plays his music with the Zen ideal in mind, and can sound like Thich Nhat Hahn when asked about his art: To be alive is beautiful, to breathe is beautiful, and to create music in the Now is beautiful. From this vantage point, Noh too, is beautiful. Briefly, the Zen Buddhist ideal is to live in the moment at the intersection of the Absolute (sacred) and the Discriminatory...
