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Roscoe Mitchell and The Sound Ensemble: Almost Like Raindrops (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 16, 09The Sound Ensemble is obviously not a name Roscoe Mitchell chose at random. The improvised music made by this band ha...
Roscoe Mitchell & The Sound Ensemble: Reverend Frank Wright (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music March 17, 09Frank Wright was an unalloyed free jazz tenor saxophonist, an Ayler-esque energy player active from the 1960s until h...
Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Cards For Quartet (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 15, 09When he has a mind to, Roscoe Mitchell can play prettier than just about any free jazz saxophonist one can name. Some...
Borah Bergman and Roscoe Mitchell: Riding the Crest (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 20, 09"Riding the Crest" is fraught with drama. The ambidextrous free jazz pianist Borah Bergman plays extremely fast and c...
Roscoe Mitchell: Music for Trombone & B Flat Soprano (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 06, 09The initial free jazz successes of the late '50s and early '60s were centered mostly in New York, where musicians l...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX
Soprano Sax and Piano Fab...
Borah Bergman and Roscoe Mitchell: At Any Given Moment (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 20, 09Of the many pianists who've adopted jazz-derived free improvisation as a mode of expression, few if any have as dis...
Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell: Bound (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 17, 09This 11-minute electro-acoustic improvisation is dominated by George Lewis's laptop. Whether it's generating its own ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Nemus (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 11, 09"Nemus" opens the middle CD of a three-disc set of Mitchell solo improvisations: the first presents him playing a var...
Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: The Flow of Things - No. 1 (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 15, 09One of three versions of "The Flow of Things" on the album of the same name, the composition is obviously more of a g...
Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell: Scrape (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 17, 09Free jazz inspired by those noted post-boppers Henry Cowell and John Cage. Just kidding (kinda), but it's true that t...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Charlie M (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 10, 08The “Charlie M” referred to in the track’s title is presumably Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, the year before this...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Oh Strange, Pt. 1 (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music December 29, 08This is the first half of a nearly hour-long collective improvisation recorded live in concert by the Art Ensemble in...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Oh Strange, Pt. 2 (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 16, 09This is the second portion of an extended collective improvisation, recorded live in concert by the Art Ensemble duri...
The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Folkus (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 20, 07When the Art Ensemble of Chicago showed up at a studio in Ludwigsburg, Germany to record for ECM, it was as surprisin...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ECM - THE FIRST DECADE
The ECM record label, founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, continues to expand our musical horizons after almost four d...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Magg Zelma (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 10, 08Following on the heels of Nice Guys—the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s extravagantly praised ECM debut—Full Force had a to...
Abrams, Muhal Richard posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09Pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams combines influences from classical, jazz and experimental music i...
Threadgill, Henry (Luther) posted in Encyclopedia March 10, 08Composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill is an iconoclast and individualist. These qualities are evident ...
Iyer, Vijay (Vijay Srinivas Raghunathan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Iyer, Vijay [Vijay Srinivas Raghunathan], violin, piano; b. Albany, NY, 26 October 1971. His last name was changed to...
Fielder, Alvin, Jr. posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Fielder, Alvin, Jr., drummer, percussionist; b. Nov. 23, 1935, Meridian, Mississippi. Father Alvin, Sr., studie...
Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 19, 09We continue in our noble if quixotic quest to review all of the great and almost great tracks in the history of jazz....
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