The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Viktor Toth - Climbing With Mountains (BMC records, 2007) ***½

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Viktor Toth is a young Hungarian alto saxophonist, playing here with Hamid Drake on drums, Matyas Szandai on bass and Ferenc Kovacs on trump...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

David Haney Trio - Blues Royale (CIMP, 2007) ****

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For an avant-garde pianist to set up a program to cover the blues is quite exceptional. Traditional blues are in essence in contradiction to...
Monday, December 3, 2007

Amendola/Goldberg/Hoff - Plays Monk (Long Song Records, 2007) ****½

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One of the essential elements in great music is the enthusiasm of the musicians. If they're not 100% behind what they're playing, th...

Archie Shepp - Gemini (Archieball, 2007) **½

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It's hard for a legend to keep producing stuff that adds nothing to what has already been done by him before, or by many others for that...
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Sunday, December 2, 2007

Dave Ballou, Terrence McManus, Dennis Gray - Thirty9thirty8 (Flattened Planet, 2007) ***½

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An interesting album : three tracks, called "eight30four", "nine40two", "twenty1nineteen", the sum of which is...
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Guitar & sax duo albums

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Guitar and sax duo albums are relatively rare (I mean only those two instruments, without bass or drums). The absolute best one I know is Ti...
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Saturday, December 1, 2007

I Heart Lung - Between Them A Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet (Sounds Are Active, 2007) ***

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The title of the album and the wonderful cover art already indicate that this band is a little out of the ordinary, and indeed it is. The mu...

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Fundamental Destiny (AECO, 2007) ****

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This album was recorded during a live performance in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1991 and includes pianist Don Pullen along the usual line-up wit...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Anthony Braxton Trio - (Glasgow) 2005 (Leo Records, 2007) ***½

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The trio consists of Anthony Braxton on alto saxophone and electronics, Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, flugelhorn and trombone, and Tom Crean on...

Mainstream trumpets ....

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Mainstream jazz is not really my thing, so it's a little bit unfair to review mainstream albums, but if it's great music, why not me...
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