The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Vandermark 5 - The Horse Jumps/The Ship Is Gone (Not Two, 2010) *****

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In truth, this is a Vandermark 7 release, with the latest line-up of the band, with Ken Vandermark on tenor saxophone and Bb clarinet, Tim D...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Scott Amendola - Lift (Sazy Records, 2010) ****

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Think of musicians as diverse as Madeleine Peyroux, Will Bernard, Jessica Lurie, Nels Cline , Giovanni Maier , Larry Ochs , or musical proje...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Achim Kaufmann, Robert Landfermann, Christian Lillinger - Grünen (Clean Feed, 2010) ****½

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Your humble servant gets loads of CDs by many labels and musicians, many more than are possible to even listen to, let alone review them all...
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Monday, November 1, 2010

Kablys - Live At 11:20 (No Business, 2010) ****

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I was quite enthusiastic about Lithuanian sax-player  Liudas Mockūnas on " Vacation Music " in a recent review, and now he's b...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Alexander Frangenheim - The Knife Again (Creative Sources, 2010) ****

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My first impression when listening to bassist Alexander Frangenheim's music was that he actually used notes like a sculpture uses ma...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

David S. Ware - Onecept (AUM Fidelity, 2010) ****

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Like on his previous solo album " Saturnian ", David S. Ware uses his stritch and saxello next to his tenor, and in all truth I...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell, 2010) *****

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The most magnificent moment of this year's Vision Festival was the duet between Wadada Leo Smith and Günter "Baby" Sommers, no...
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Ned Rothenberg

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It's already hard to keep up with all new releases, but if musicians now also start releasing several albums a year, in various genres a...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Stephan Crump & James Carney - Echo Run Pry (Clean Feed, 2010) ****

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Last year pianist James Carney released an excellent modern jazz CD, " Ways And Means ", yet what he does here on this album with ...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Ninni Morgia & Control Unit (Ultramarine, 2010) ****

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As the art work suggests, we're entering a psychedelic environment, full of weird colors and fascinating hues. And so is the music, play...
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