Andrew Lindemann Malone
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November 2005 Albums
Maihama: Japan Tour 2002 Summer Vol. 2
The Six Winds
The Six Winds is actually composed, more specifically, of six saxophones, arrayed from the highest to the lowest: Mariette Rouppe van der Voort, sopranino; Dies le Duc, soprano; Umezu Kazutoki, alto; Andrew White, tenor; Ad Peijnenburg, baritone; and Klaas...
November 2005 Albums
Mystery Bag
String Zone
These two discs feature groups seeking the dance pulse at the heart of jazz without any percussion instruments at their disposal: L.A.'s Supernova uses the instruments of the classical string quartet (two violins, viola and cello), while the Norwegian group...
October 2005 Albums
Realization
George Colligan's Mad Science
George Colligan seems to have all the ingredients for a funky good time on his Mad Science trio's new disc Realization: his trusty Hammond B3 organ, augmented by various synths and samples; guitarist Tom Guarna and drummer Rodney Holmes, both veterans of...
October 2005 Albums
High Voltage
Common Ground
Common Ground is led by Zach Brock and Tom Wright, both violinists who use amplifiers so that they can be better heard over their excellent rhythm section, composed of pianist Jordan Baskin, bassist Mike Arnopol and drummer Tom Hipskind. Unfortunately, the...
October 2005 Albums
The Jazz Chamber Trio
Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera's stated goal for his Jazz Chamber Trio is to "unify in one single concept the delicate intimacy of chamber music, the spontaneity of jazz, plus the rhythmic power of Latin-American music." What his album The Jazz Chamber Trio proves is...
October 2005 Albums
Other Valentines
Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio
The Fred Lonberg-Holm trio is composed of Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Jason Roebke on bass and Frank Rosaly on drums. This combination poses some problems, as their new album Other Valentines proves. The cello and bass crowd each other when the cello goes...
July/August 2005 Albums
Dance of the Infidel
Meshell Ndegeocello
There is great music, and then there is good music that is great at accomplishing a specific task. The latter can be found on Dance of the Infidel, the first album from bassist/inveterate explorer Meshell Ndegeocello's new band Spirit Music Jamia: It stands...
July/August 2005 Albums
Eleventh Hour
Fred Frith
The line separating music that intoxicates listeners with its mysterious stillness from music that bores listeners to tears with its complete lack of musical incident is perilously thin, and composer Fred Frith spends some time on both sides of that border...
July/August 2005 Albums
Radiance
Keith Jarrett
In the liner notes for his first solo album in eight years, pianist Keith Jarrett admits that many of his listeners "will be momentarily (at least) shocked at the initial absence of melodic-or even motivic-content," as Radiance is two discs' worth of free...
July/August 2005 Albums
Una Nave
Guillermo Klein
Pianist/guitarist/composer Guillermo Klein's Una Nave takes obvious inspiration from the music of Klein's native Argentina but treats it freely and with a keen ear for catchy melodies, malleable yet infectious rhythms and dramatic musical progressions that...
June 2005 Albums
Train Song
Aros
The title of Aros' Train Song immediately calls to mind a locomotive's duple rhythm (chugga-chugga, chugga-chugga), which makes it somewhat ironic that a straight-up duple or triple rhythm is nearly impossible to find on the album. Aros, an Amsterdam-based...
June 2005 Albums
Chemistry
Zach Brock and the Coffee Achievers
Three recent jazz-violin releases, taken together, prove that jazz doesn't care what instrument you play as long as you play it well. Zach Brock and SavoirFaire each go further afield stylistically than Diane Delin does, but her mastery of her aesthetic...
June 2005 Albums
Solos
Robin Holcomb/Wayne Horvitz
In a successful marriage, the two partners must strike a balance between having no interests whatsoever in common and meddling in each other's business all the time. Or so I'm told. Anyway, pianists Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb have been married for 25...
June 2005 Albums
Strange Fruit
Irvin Mayfield
Rare indeed is the musician who can make two albums as disparate as Irvin Mayfield's latest Los Hombres Calientes album with Bill Summers, Vol. 5: Carnival, and the premiere recording of Mayfield's lynching chorale Strange Fruit. Almost unheard of is the...
May 2005 Albums
Blues in Red
Buyu Ambroise
If saxophonist Alix "Buyu" Ambroise's Blues in Red accomplished nothing else, it would still be worth a listen for its unstoppable Afro-Haitian percussion grooves. Percussionist Kahlil Kwame-Bell and kata drummer Fito Vivien join the trap-set drummer in...
May 2005 Albums
Early Music
Spooky Actions
Spooky Actions' first classical-based album, Music of Webern, treated the Austrian serialist to clever transcriptions and striking improvisations using John Gunther's winds and Bruce Arnold's processed electric guitar. Now Spooky Actions has returned to...
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