All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
ESP-Disk' Live! A contemporary music series With MC and poet in residence: Steve Dalachinsky Tuesday October 14th 10pm Sound World News KALI Z. Fasteau (ESP 3018) soprano sax, flute, piano, voice, viola, drums, mizmar and sanza Clif Jackson - bass Ron McBee - percussion and berimbau + special guests...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
ESP-Disk’ One looks at the inside cover photograph of the musicians, squat under a bridge (perhaps in Brooklyn, where the record was taped), staring at the camera with a less than cordial look, and instantly thinks that there’s a crew from Law & Order Criminal Intent hidden somewhere. Then the music begins, and the first consideration [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Bud Powell Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 ESP-Disk 2008 Bud Powell In Copenhagen Storyville 2008 Pianist Bud Powell's music is often buried in his tragic personal history, so much so that his story is best known through the film Round Midnight, where his character is transmogrified into a saxophonist memorably played by Dexter Gordon. Mental illness--at least partially caused by a savage police...
undomondo (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Legendary bassist Henry Grimes has a rerelease on ESP-Disk, of the one and only disc he has been a leader on named “The Call” . For all those who need a recap about his extraordinary life story, Grimes was one of the most sought after bass players in the 50s playing with Albert Ayler, Coleman [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Generally, innocence drives the impetus for how to discover the next place successfully. An intriguing process of discovering various levels while creating appears on the re-release of the Giuseppi Logan Quartet (ESP Disk, 2008). Originally recorded in 1965 in New York, this recording imparts the musical uniqueness of multi-reedman Giuseppi Logan's sound...
Taran's Free Jazz Hour (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
new on esp disk solar forge: totem-bruce eisenbeil, g/ tom blancarte, b/ andrew drury, dr bloom in the commune: burton greene, p, perc/ henry grimes, b/ marion brown, as/ dave grant, perc/ frank smith, ts/ tom price, perc latest on clean feed the bird, the breeze & mr filiano: paulo curado, as, fl/ ken filiano, b/ bruno pedroso, dr the beautiful enabler: rudresh mahanthappa, as/ mark dresser, b/ gerry...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Alan Roth Inside Out In The Open ESP-Disk 2008 First shown in 2001, Inside Out in the Open is taking on the air of an historic document, and it is all the more valuable for that. Now widely distributed for the first time on DVD, and deservedly so, the hour-long documentary should appeal to anyone wanting an insight into the whats, whys and hows of the music known as free jazz...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Fans of avant-garde free jazz will find a new collection of recordings to sift through with a new handful of ESP-DISK re-releases. With typewriter fonts and vivid graphics, the digipak albums are a handheld version of the free jazz that ESP got its start recording. Albums with live performances and recordings from artists like Ornette Coleman (pictured), Henry Grimes, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and Milford...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Jazz and improvised music have long held a certain appeal for fans of underground and outside art. Those who cut their teeth on the Fugs and protest music of the '60s found similar yelps offered among the jewels of the ESP-Disk catalog, and post-riot French students found solidarity (if briefly) with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The do-it-yourself aesthetic of creative music is an easy thing to latch...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
ESP-Disk What do Neil Peart and Milford Graves have in common? Not much, but there is the shared and seemingly unquenchable propensity for populating their kits with a panoply of pieces. In the years since this early ESP effort,...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
ESP-Disk Career rebirths usually serve as manna for the receptive jazz press. Few, if any, are as remarkable as that achieved by bassist Henry Grimes: More than three decades spent in anonymity practically erased by a prodigal return. This...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
ESP-DISK, the premiere American avant garde record label of the sixties--one of the most turbulently creative periods in music history-has returned to reclaim its rich legacy with a series of releases that include reissues of groundbreaking out of print albums from its extensive catalogue, exciting previously unreleased live sessions from its vaults and new recordings that follow in its great tradition...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
ESP-Disk The ESP-Disk annals are rife with shadowy figures, musicians on the free jazz fringes who recorded little beyond what they left behind on the label (The Wizard, anyone?). Drummer James Zitro and several members of the ensemble on...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
Inside Out In the Open: A Film by Alan Roth ESP Disk 2001/2008 Spontaneous improvisation in music has long been relegated to the shadows of public recognition. However much the improvisers themselves have felt estranged from the general culture, they will not be thwarted in their efforts to continue expanding the improvisatory language. It is only they, after all, who can educate society about their...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
ZIG ZAG THE EMPTY FOXHOLE Ornette Coleman The Empty Foxhole Blue Note : 1966 OC, alto sax, trumpet; Charlie Haden, bass; Denardo Coleman, drums. On Christmas night, 1962, Ornette Coleman presented a self-promoted concert at New York’s Town Hall, a cozy, old-fashioned theatre that is something like a very compressed Carnegie Hall on the intimacy-o-meter. As Coleman told Howard Mandel, that [...]
