Free Jazz / Avante Garde - CD Reviews (1158)
February 2007 - There are too few words available to describe musical performances in a fresh way, especially one as ethereal as given by the Ganelin Trio Priority. Their s…
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If not for Origin Records, questing ensembles, such as Trio East, would not be able to find label homes. Origin continues their fine tradition of focusing on less well k…
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I must confess that I was not particularly enamored of Stephen Foster’s music prior to hearing Early American - and it took me several listens to be thoroughly …
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Brian Allen may well be the best American modern jazz trombonist that you’ve never heard of. Allen’s lack of exposure probably has more to do with his choice to live and…
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Distributed by the established modern/free-jazz Lisbon based record label Clean-Feed, this effort looms as the inaugural debut for European Echoes, initiated by…
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Canadian bassist and composer Michael Bates has released A Fine Balance in which he blends jazz with classical moods. Visiting styles and going up into the experi…
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Produced and orchestrated by Scott McLemore, this quartet utters an in-the-groove tendency, extending mercurial tempos, tonal shades and echelons of intensity. On "Hopef…
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Oh! How lucky can one be in having Christopher Woitach’s latest release Dead Men (are heavier than broken hearts), written as a tribute to the crime and…
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Eclectic drummer Tom Cohen sparks out with his release The Guitar Trio Project. Kaleidoscopic visions of drums/ strings promenade us with wonderful known tun…
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The newly release of Brooklyn based bassist Reuben Radding collides in a series of daring atonal sketches changing in length from track to track. Every piece snuggles a …
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Emerging from the avant-garde, Catalan scene guitarist Santi Careta and pianist Sergi Sirvent comprise a duo of two out-standing improvisers. Anacronics …
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Two weeks after his sixtieth birthday, progressive jazz-improvisation and avant-garde legend Anthony Braxton was invited to partake in a sequence of performances with va…
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Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams affect on modern jazz and improvisation hearkens back to his founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). A…
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British geniuses Metropolis have released an album titled III as an homage to Led Zeppelin and well it is their third album.The song titles are unconvent…
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This CD contains on piece at just over forty five minutes which all four musicians show that there is, no going back.This could a great example of how free jazz i…
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Turning up the volume to hear Pulling Strings clarified everything. It is a genderless pas-de-deux with strings. Muscular, dramatic and straightforward.To …
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Like most of Joe Lovano’s music, this album is very novel and very out. It consists of two suites, The Birth of the Cool Suite as the centerpiece and then the …
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The beauty about Paradise Road, from the Steve Lantner Quartet, is that it is different every time you listen. The conglomerate of abstractions becomes a m…
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Rod Stewart recorded his version of the American Songbook, Smokey Robinson has put down some "jazz standards" and now the Davis S. Ware Quartet thrust into the scene a r…
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One of the first things I noticed when I listened to the Industrial Jazz Group’s CD entitled Industrial Jazz A Go Go was the band’s propensity towards improvisati…
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