Entries from February 2015
Drkwav: The Purge
The extent to which saxophonist Skerik, keyboardist John Medeski and percussionist Adam Deitch love to explore the nuances of melody, rhythm and space, especially at their respective outer limits, makes their collaboration as Drkwav almost inevitable. And it’s perfectly appropriate the trio chose a…
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·Drkwv: The Purge
The extent to which saxophonist Skerik, keyboardist John Medeski and percussionist Adam Deitch love to explore the nuances of melody, rhythm and space, especially at their respective outer limits, makes their collaboration as Drkwav almost inevitable. And it’s perfectly appropriate the trio chose a…
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·Avi Avital: Vivaldi
On his debut recording, Bach (2013, Deutsche Grammophon), mandolinist Avi Avital played a pristine, clinically punctilious JSB. It is therefore no surprise that Avital moves a little earlier in the Baroque Era to produce a very similar collection by Antonio Vivaldi. Avital is an Israeli born in 1978…
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·ARS Antiqua Austria, Gunnar Letzbor: Biber: Sonaten Uber Die Mysterien des Rosenkranzes
It is a funny thing. There are just some pieces of music that scream to be owned in multiple performances. This past Christmas, I bought my 52nd and 53rd performances of Handel’s Messiah. I am not sure if one can own to many performances of Bach’s Goldberg Variations or Christmas Oratorio or Mass in…
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·Pulsarus: Bee Itch
When discussing progressive jazz contexts, let us not forget our brothers and sisters in Poland who have been riding the cutting-edge schema for decades, evidenced by pianists Adam Makowicz, m: Marcin Wasilewski , trumpeter m: Tomasz StaA”ko and other notables of the global jaz…
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·Daniel Lanois: For the Beauty of Wynona
While Daniel Lanois spent most of the ’80s and the first years of the ’90s honing his craft as a producer, he cautiously emerged as a songwriter and recording artist with Acadie. (Red Floor Records, 1989) A mere four years after this beautiful debut he returned with another intriguing and haunting c…
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·John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet: Live Beauty
Part of the appeal of the teaming of guitarist m: John Stowell with various “post Coltrane” saxophonists is the cool/hot dynamic. Stowell is the guy with a Zen restraint, the cool guy, his chords sometimes sounding as if they are ringing from frozen stalactite filaments in ice caves. Saxo…
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