The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Demian Richardson - The Gowanus Recordings (577 Records, 2009) ****

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Real free jazz is like water : it flows freely, refreshingly, you can dip your feet in it, submerge in it, drown in it. You can't tell. ...

John Hébert - Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12, 2009) ****

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John Hébert is an excellent bass-player whose skillful playing has been at the service of some of the nicest modern jazz albums of the past ...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Barry Guy & Mats Gustafsson - Sinners, Rather Than Saints (NoBusiness, 2009) *****

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British bassist Barry Guy and Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson have played together numerous times and released albums ranging from duets...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Willie Oteri & Dave Laczko - WD 41 (CDBaby, 2009) ***

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Guitar and trumpet duets being extremely rare, I thought this new album might interest some readers. Guitarist Willie Oteri and trumpeter Da...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Ernst Reijseger - Tell Me Everything (Winter & Winter, 2008) ****

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More than ten years after his first solo recording, Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger is back with an album of the same intensity, albeit with i...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Phil Hargreaves, Lee Noyes & Bruno Duplant - Malachi (Insubordinations, 2009) ****½

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This is a piece of modern jazz that I really like. A sax trio that improvises freely, without melody and rhythm, yet with a very controlled ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

David Binney - Third Occasion (Mythology, 2009) ****

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David Binney is one of the rare modern musicians that promote themselves very well. His website is kept up-to-date, new gigs are announced,...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Rakalam Bob Moses - Father's Day B'hash (Sunnyside Records, 2009) ****

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Today is father's day. More than appropriate to review this album by drummer Rakalam Bob Moses, who assembles a large ensemble of music ...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Miroslav Vitous Group - Remembering Weather Report (ECM, 2009) ****½

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Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous co-founded Weather Report in the early 70s with Wayne Shorter as an acoustic band. They asked Austrian keyboar...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Back & Forth - Unavoidable Casualty (Thin Consolation, 2009) ****

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Sampling and mixing jazz into trip hop and instrumental hip hop modes is not a new thing, but the quality of the work done here by my fellow...
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