The Spoleto Festival USA Roars Back
It’s difficult to imagine what the stage and the audience would have looked like at Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, if Rhiannon Giddens’ new … Read More “The Spoleto Festival USA Roars Back”
Reviews
Vijay Iyer/ Linda May Han Oh/ Tyshawn Sorey: Uneasy (ECM)
A stark, black-and-white, distant photo of the Statue of Liberty; composition titles that reflect crises of infrastructure and systemic racism; an underlying tension in the … Read More “Vijay Iyer/ Linda May Han Oh/ Tyshawn Sorey: Uneasy (ECM)”
Brad Barrett/Joe Morris/Tyshawn Sorey: Cowboy Transfiguration (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Free improvisation reaches its apex when performers evoke the feeling of a composition. The music isn’t written in advance, but the players communicate in a … Read More “Brad Barrett/Joe Morris/Tyshawn Sorey: Cowboy Transfiguration (Fundacja Sluchaj)”
Live Review: Big Ears 2018
You know you’re at the Big Ears Festival when Nathan Bowles, banjo and bones player for the old-time string band the Black Twig Pickers, enthusiastically … Read More “Live Review: Big Ears 2018”
Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (Pi)
Let no one think that Tyshawn Sorey’s use of a piano-bass-drums trio on Verisimilitude, his sixth album (and one of his strongest), brings it closer … Read More “Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (Pi)”
Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy
In addition to being a drummer able to handle the jagged musical terrain of Vijay Iyer, Steve Coleman and Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey continues to … Read More “Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy”
Tyshawn Sorey: Oblique – I
Mike Shanley reviews drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s latest, ‘Oblique – I’
Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog
While the commanding drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been known for his mathematical and muscular intensity in settings with Steve Coleman, Fieldwork, Steve Lehman and other … Read More “Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog”
Moers Jazz Festival
Josef Woodard reviews adventurous festival in Germany