Free Jazz / Avante Garde - CD Reviews (1158)
after the city is gone : quiet by Vancouver pianist Chris Gestrin presents over two hours of music that is unusual and creative - unusually creative. The 2 CD set wa…
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Trios make headway when the members can transcend their interdependence. Since each musician has his own identity, he can move independently of the others in the musical…
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Experimental jazz trio Sumrra create melodic improvisations wheeled by artisans Manuel Gutierrez (piano), Xacobe Martinez (bass), and L.A.R. Legido (drums). The group’s …
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Portand, Oregon tenor saxophonist Dusty York demonstrates a natural approach to jazz improvisation on his latest disc, Cinema 57. The recording showcases York’s u…
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Virtuoso modern/free-jazz pianist Steve Lantner rises to the occasion yet again. With strong support supplied by bassist Joe Morris and drummer Luther Gray, the music it…
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Recorded at a Brooklyn N.Y., studio, these artists conjure up a kaleidoscopic viewpoint within jazz-based improvisational environs. However, pianist Nobu Stowe offers mo…
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Three virtuosos perform live and in the studio with the flair of a chamber trio going deviously off-course, among other attributes. Multi-hued and intensely verbose, thi…
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This CD stands as my initial introduction to this Norwegian/Swedish progressive-jazz quartet which according to its website, was founded in 1999. Yet one of the noticeab…
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These three stalwart European improvisers often convey a semblance of four or more instrumentalists engaging in semi-structured dialogues. It’s a study in sound-sculptin…
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Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon’s ascent within global jazz circles advances with the release of two new European Quartet outings. The differentiator here, is that reno…
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Saxophonist Rob Wagner made New Orleans his home in the early 90s and firmly established a reputation as one of the very finest reedmen in the Crescent City - or anywher…
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Alto saxophonist Rocco John Iacovone studied with Lee Konitz and put in time with Sam Rivers. As the liner notes point out, this explains the sense of having feet in bot…
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The story told by pianist Jackob Sachs and bassist Eivind Opsvik is that they posed the question to each other: "Out of all the remaining living masters, who would you w…
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Satoko Fujii is a Japanese pianist/composer whose (mostly) avant-garde key-cracking abilities have been raved about previously on these cyber-pages by yours truly -- Car…
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Swedish pianist/composer Susanna Lindeborg has fronted the avant-garde ensemble Mwendo Dawa since the 1970s. On Live at Fasching, recorded in September, 2005 at S…
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The late German actor Klaus Kinski was purportedly a perfectionist and a hot-head. This release finds keyboardist Nobu Stowe and longtime collaborator, sound designer Le…
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This is a high-impact free-form progressive jazz extravaganza brought to us by three hard-hitting heavyweights of the genre. No doubt, this trio comes at you from all an…
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While attending the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2001, pianist Michael Coleman, bassist Nathaniel Brenner and drummer Rob Schwartz recognized one common goal: explor…
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In my capacity as a reviewer with Jazzreview, my ears have been treated to some of the most diverse and often impressive music and use of instruments in the world. I’ve …
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Brazilian saxophonist/composer Alipio C. Neto has been working the Portuguese free-jazz scene for a few years now, but performs with three prominent New York-based jazz …
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