Reviews Archive (Recordings)

ISSUE 1 (March 2008)

Reviewers: David Grundy, Massimo Ricci, Stef Gijssels, Ian Thumwood, Noa Corcoran-Tadd, Michael Ardiaolo, Henry Kuntz, Will Layman, Seth Watter, Daniel Melnick, Andrew Forbes, Marcello Carlin, Anthony Whiteford

Top 10 Albums of 2007 – Issue One

1. Anthony Braxton – 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006
2. Charles Tolliver Big Band – With Love
3. John Surman – The Spaces in Between
4. William Parker – Cornmeal Dance
5. Evan Parker/Matthew Shipp – Abbey Road Duos
6. Peter Brotzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Paale-Nilsson Love – The Fat is Gone
7. His Name is Alive – Sweet Earth Flower
8. fORCH – Spin Networks
9. Peter Evans – The Peter Evans Quartet
10. Robert Wyatt – Comicopera

CD Reviews – Issue One

• ANDERSON, FRED/DRAKE, HAMID – From the River to the Ocean
• BANG, BILLY (QUINTET) WITH FRANK LOWE– Above and Beyond: An Evening in Grand Rapids
• BELMONDO/YUSEF LATEEF – Influence
• BENNINK, HAN – Amplified Trio
• BLANCHARD, TERENCE – A Tale of God’s Will: A Requiem for Katrina
• BLEY, CARLA – The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
• BLEY, PAUL – Solo in Mondsee
• BRAXTON, ANTHONY – 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006
• BRECKER, MICHAEL – Pilgrimage
• BROTZMANN, PETER – Guts
• BROTZMANN, PETER/GUSTAFFSON, MATS/NILSSEN-LOVE, PALLE – The Fat is Gone
• BRUBECK, DAVE – Indian Summer
• CAPECE, LUCIO/DORNER, AXEL/HAYWARD, ROBIN – Kammerlärm
• CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE & THE THING WITH JOE McPHEE – Two Bands and a Legend
• CLAUDIA QUINTET – For
• DOUGLAS, DAVE – Live at the Jazz Standard
• EDWARDS, MARC – Ion Storm
• EDWARDS, MARC – Twelve Votes
• ELLING, KURT – Nightmoves
• EL’ZHABAR, KALIL (INFINITY ORCHESTRA)- Transmigration
• EVANS, PETER – The Peter Evans Quartet
• fORCH – Spin Networks
• FORTUNE, SONNY – You and the Night and the Music
• FRIEDLANDER, ERIC – Block Ice and Propane
• GLASGOW IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA WITH BARRY GUY – Falkirk
• GUSTAFSSON, MATS/ YOSHIMI – Words on the Floor
• HANCOCK, HERBIE – River: The Joni Letters
• HARGREAVES, PHIL/WEYANT, GLENN – Friday Morning Everywhere
• HIS NAME IS ALIVE – Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown
• MARSALIS, WYNTON – From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
• METHENY, PAT/MEHLDAU, BRAD – Metheny/Mehldau Quartet
• MILLER, MARCUS – Free
• MITCHELL, ROSCOE – Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1,2 & 3
• MOSTLY OTHER PEOPLE DO THE KILLING – Shamokin!
• MONCUR III, GRACHAN – Inner Cry Blues
• MURRAY, DAVID (BLACK SAINT QUARTET) – Sacred Ground
• O’ LEARY, MARK – On the Shore
• PARKER, EVAN/SHIPP, MATTHEW – Abbey Road Duos
• PARKER, WILLIAM/DRAKE, HAMID – Summer Snow
• PARKER, WILLIAM (DOUBLE QUARTET) – Alphaville Suite
• PARKER, WILLIAM (RAINING ON THE MOON) – Cornmeal Dance
• POTTER, STEVE – Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard
• SHEPP, ARCHIE – Gemini
• SOIL AND ‘PIMP’ SESSIONS – Pimpoint
• TYNER, McCOY – McCoy Tyner Quartet
• SCHNEIDER, MARIA – Sky Blue
• SHIPP, MATTHEW – Piano Vortex
• SURMAN, JOHN – The Spaces in Between
• VARIOUS ARTISTS – Free Jazz.org Sampler, Vol. II
• WARE, DAVID.S – Renunciation
• WASSERMANN, UTE – Birdtalking
• WEASEL WALTER – Firestorm
• WEBER, EBERHARD – Stages of a Long Journey
• WESTBROOK, MIKE (VILLAGE BAND)– The Waxeywork Show
• WYATT, ROBERT – Comicopera
• ZORN, JOHN – From Silence to Sorcery

Re-Issues/Other – Issue One

• BRAXTON, ANTHONY/FONDA, JOE – Duets 1995
• BROTZMANN, PETER – The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
• CHERRY, DON – Live at the Café Montmartre 1966
• COLTRANE, JOHN – My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live in Newport
• COXHILL, LOL/MILLER, STEVE – The Story So Far/Oh Really?
• DAVIS, MILES – The Complete On the Corner Sessions
• ERVIN, BOOKER – The Freedom Book
• GREENE, BURTON – Bloom in the Commune
• HILL, ANDREW – Compulsion
• HOWARD, NOAH – The Black Ark
• HOWARD, NORMAN – Burn Baby Burn
• MAUPIN, BENNIE – The Jewel in the Lotus
• MINGUS, CHARLES – Cornell ’64
• MURRAY, SUNNY – Sunny Murray
• PARKER, EVAN/ LEWIS, GEORGE/LYTTON, PAUL – Hook, Drift and Shuffle
• RA, SUN – Night of the Purple Moon
• RA, SUN – Strange Strings
• TIPPET, KEITH – Ovary Lodge
• TRIO OF DOOM (John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams)– Trio of Doom

ISSUE 2 (September 2008)

Reviewers: Roger Farbey, David Grundy, Stef Gijssels, Daniel Melnick, Tomasz Nadrowski

CD Reviews – Issue 2

• ARTHURS / HOIBY / RITCHIE – Explications

• AUTECHRE – Quaristice

• BJORNSTAD, KETL / RYPDAL, TERJE – Life in Leipzig

• BY ANY MEANS – Live at Crescendo

• CAMPBELL, ROY – Akhenaten Suite

• CHABALA, BARRY/ HARGREAVES, PHIL – Musick for Two Machines

• CLOAKS – Serene

• CONVERGENCE QUARTET– Live in Oxford

• COWLEY, NEIL (TRIO)- Loud…Louder…Stop!

• D’ANGELO, ANDREW – Skadra Degis

• DUNMAL/ STEPHENS/ MARSH– All Said and Dun

• DUNMALL, PAUL/ MINTS, ROMAN – Exodus

• FLOWER/ CORSANO DUO – The Radiant Mirror

• EL’ ZABAR, KAHIL (RITUAL TRIO FEAT. PHAROAH SANDERS) – Ooh Live!

• FERNANDEZ/ PARKER/ GUY/ LYTTON – Topos

• FIELDWORK – At the Door

• fURT PLUS – Equals

• IYER, VIJAY – Tragicomic

• JN, Ilton – The Rats Rain Down

• KALLERDAHL, LINDA – Gold

• LIEBMAN/ ESKELIN/ MARIANO/ BLACK – Renewal

• LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA/ GLASGOW IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA– Separately and Together

• LYCANTHROPE OBOE– Hiding in the Long Grass/ Staring at the Waking Sky

• MAUPIN, BENNIE (QUARTET) – EARLY REFLECTIONS

• MEKURYA, GETATCHEW/ THE EX – Moa Anbessa

• MERZBOW – Here

• METHENY, PAT (TRIO) – Day Trip

• PARKER, EVAN/ TRANSATLANTIC ART ENSEMBLE – Boustrophedon

• RETURN OF THE NEW THING – Alchemy

• ROBERTS, MATANA – The Chicago Project

• SCHIZO QUARTET – Don’t Answer It

• SMITH, WADADA LEO (GOLDEN QUARTET) – Tabligh

• SPRING HEEL JACK – Songs and Themes

• SURMAN, JOHN / MOODY, HOWARD – Rain on the Window

• TAZARTES, GHEDALIA – Hysterie off Musique

• TOTALITARIAN MUSICAL SECT – Warm Things Vol. 2, Live in GES-21

• TOTEM – Solar Forge

• VIOLENCE JAZZ – Protection

• WATTS, TREVOR / HARRIS, JAMIE – Ancestry

• WELCOME, CHRIS – Quartet

• WILKINSON, ALAN / PREVOST, EDDIE – So Are We, So Are We

• WINSTONE, NORMA (TRIO) – DISTANCES

Re-Issues/ Other – Issue 2

• AYLER/ CHERRY/ TCHICAI/ RUDD/ PEACOCK/ MURRAY – New York Eye and Ear Control

• COLEMAN, ORENTTE – Town Hall 1962

• DANIEL, TED (QUINTET) – Tapestry

• GARRICK, MICHAEL – Promises

• GRAVES, MILFORD – Percussion Ensemble

• GRIMES, HENRY (Trio) – The Call

• HARPER, BILLY – In Concert: Live From Poland (DVD)

• LEWIS, GEORGE – A Power Stronger Than Itself (BOOK)

• GUISEPPI LOGAN – Quartet

• LANCASTER, BYARD (UNIT)- Live at Macalester College

• LOWE, FRANK– Black Beings

• McLEAN, JACKIE – New and Old Gospel

• WESTBROOK, MIKE/KATE – London Bridge is Broken Down

ISSUE 3 (March 2009)

Reviewers: Andrew Forbes, David Grundy, Aaron Hicks, Sandy Kindness, Ian Thumwood

CD Reviews – Issue 3

• BELORUKOV/ STOLYAR/ POPOVSKIY – Dots and Lines
• BEVAN/ CORSANO/ LASH – Monster Club
• BLEY, CARLA (& HER REMARKABLE BIG BAND) – Appearing Nightly
• CADAVRE ESQUIS – Imperfect Silence: Cadavre Esquis Compilation One
• DIXON, BILL – 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur
• FLAHERTY/ COLBOURNE – Bridge Out!
• GINNUNGAGAP – Crashed Like Wretched Moth
• GOLIA/ JOSEPHSON/ KAISER/ KENEALLY/ MORRIS / SMITH/ WALTER – Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler
• HERBERT, MATTHEW (BIG BAND) – There’s Me and There’s You
• JENSEN, RICK (QUARTET) – The Mosaicist
• KHOURY/ SODERBERG – Volumen Drei
• LEIBIG, STEUART/ TEE-TOT QUARTET – Always Outnumbered
• McCASLIN, DONNY – Recommended Tools
• O’ MALLEY/ CSIHAR – 6^oF Skyquake
• PARKER, WILLIAM – Double Sunrise Over Neptune
• PETERS, STEVE – The Webster Cycles
• SONIC YOUTH/ MATS GUSTAFFSON/ MERZBOW – Andre Sider af Sonic Youth
• PETERS, STEVE – The Webster Cycles
• VANDERMARK FIVE – Beat Rider

Re-issues/ Other – Issue 3

• BIRIGWA – Birigwa
• BLEY, PAUL (Quintet) – Barrage
• DAVIDSON, LOWELL – Trio
• GRIMES, HENRY- Signs Along the Road (BOOK)
• HYDER, KEN/ TALISKER – Dreaming of Glenisla
• ISOTOPE – Golden Section
• LEVITTS – We are the Levitts
• MITCHELL, ROSCOE – Nonaah
• SARMANTO, HEIKKI/ SERIOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE – A Boston Date
• YOSHIHIDE, OTOMO – Music(s) (DVD)

ISSUE 4 (August 2009)

Reviewers: Nick Dart, David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Oscar Lomas

CD Reviews – Issue 4

• BOZZO, FABRIZIO/ SALLIS, ANTONELLO – Burst
• GRIMES, HENRY/ ALI, RASHIED – Going to the Ritual
• FUTTERMAN, JOEL/LEVIN, IKE/ FIELDLER, ALVIN- Travelling Through Now
• HARGREAVES, PHIL/DUPLANT, BRUNO/ NOYES, LEE – Malachi
• HASSELL, JON – Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Her Clothes in The Street
• MAGGEE, MASSIMO/ NOYES, LEE – All Angles
• McAULEY, JIM – The Ultimate Frog
• MOLVAER, NILS PETTER – Hamada
• MORRIS, JOE – Wildlife
• PHOSPHOR – Phosphor II
• POPE, ODEAN – Plant Life
• SALIS, ANTONELLO – Pianosolo
• SCHWEIZER, IRENE/ ANDERSON, FRED/ DRAKE, HAMID – Willisau and Taktlos
• SHEPP, ARCHIE – Phat Jam in Milano
• S UNN O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
• TAKASE, AKI/ MAHALL, RUDI – Evergreen
• VARIOUS – Spectra: Guitar in the 21st Century
• WALTER, WEASEL/ KAISER, HENRY/ SMITH, DAMON – Plane Crash
• WATTS, TREVOR/ HARRIS, JAMIE – Live in Sao Paulo, Brasil
• WATTS, TREVOR/ KNIGHT, PETER – Reunion
• WRIGHT, SEYMOUR – Seymour Wright of Derby
• YEH, C. SPENCER – The Strangler
• YOSHIDA, AMI/ NAKAMURA, TAKAMARU – Soba to Bora

Re-Issues/Other – Issue 4

• BARBIERI, GATO – In Search of the Mystery
• CHERRY, DON – Live at Cafe Montmartre, Vol. 3
• HOPPER, HUGH – Hopper Tunity Box
• FITZGERALD, G.F./COXHILL, LOL – Echoes of Duneden
• OSBORNE, MIKE (TRIO) – Force of Nature
• SUN RA ARKESTRA FEATURING PHAROAH SANDERS AND BLACK HAROLD- Le Sun Ra Arkestra Live at Judson Hall
• WINDO, PAM/GARY – Avant Gardeners
• WOODS, JIMMY (SEXTET) – Conflict

ISSUE 5 (March 2010)

Reviewers: David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Daniel Larwood, Ian Thumwood

CD Reviews – Issue 5

• AIDA SEVERO – Aida Severo
• ALLEN, CORY – The Fourth Way
• ARGUE, JAMES DARCY – Infernal Machines
• BARNACLED – Charles
• COTE, MICHEL F./DONTIGNY, A_- La Notte Fa
• DIXON, BILL – Tapestries for Small Orchestra
• FUTTERMAN, JOEL – Transition One: Solo Piano
• GIGANTOMACHIA – The Naked Future
• HARGROVE, ROY (BIG BAND) – Emergence
• LEE, PEGGY – New Code
• HOULE, VIVIEN – Treize
• KREBS, ANNETTE/ NAKAMURA, TOSHIMARU – Siyu
• MERSON HESS, DAVE – Music from the film ‘Presence’
• MIMESYS – Mimesys
• PROFOUND SOUND TRIO – Opus de Life
• SCOTT-HERON, GIL – I’m New Here
• SKARABEE – Tlon
• TAZARTES, GHEDALIA – Repas Froid
• THE THING – Bag It!
• THE THING – Now & Forever
• tUSK – 10 Greatest Hits!
• WHOLE VOYALD, THE – In Repose (EP)
• WILSON, TONY (SEXTET) – The People Look Like Flowers At Last
• WALTER, WEASEL/ EDWARDS, MARC – Mysteries Beneath the Planet
• WOZZECK – Act I
• YAMOMOTO, ERI – Duologue
• YXIMALOO – Unpop

Re-Issues – Issue 5

• BOYKINS, RONNIE – The Will Come, Is Now
• BRADFORD, BOBBY – With John Stevens & The Spontaneous Music Ensemble
• LANCASTER, BYARD – Personal Testimony: Then & Now
• THE REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE – Vietnam
• TYLER, CHARLES – Charles Tyler Ensemble

Book Reviews – Issue 5

• MARTIN WILLIAMS – The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue & The Remaking of Modern Music
• GILLES PETERSON, GILLES/ STUART BAKER- Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1965-83
• MATTIN/ANTHONY ILES (eds.) – Noise & Capitalism

ISSUE 6 (March 2011)

Reviewers: David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Ted Harms

CD Reviews – Issue 6

ANOTHER TIMBRE: GUITAR SERIES

• Küchen/ Rowe/ Wright (AT29)
• Volden/ Nakamura (AT26)
• Ap’Strophe (AT28)

ANOTHER TIMBRE: DUOS WITH BRASS

• Davies / Dorner (AT31)
• Hübsch/ Spiller (AT32)
• Fabbriciani/Hayward (AT30)

ALL OTHER REVIEWS

• AKIYAMA, TETUZI/ NAKAMURA, TOSHIMARU – Semi-Impressionism
• AUTECHRE – Oversteps
• BENZENE / TOMMY BABIN – Your Body is Your Prison
• CHALMERS, STUART – God of Decay
• COSOTTINI/ MELANI/ MIANO / PISANI – Cardinal
• CURRENT 93 – Haunted Waves, Moving Graves
• DAWN OF MIDI – First
• DIATRIBES & BARRY GUY – Multitude
• D’ INCISE – Sécheresse Plantée En Plein Ciel
• DUNMALL, PAUL/ CORSANO, CHRIS – Identical Sunsets
• ERGO – Multitude, Solitude
• FARMER, PATRICK/ LASH, DOMINIC – Bestiaries
• FOND OF TIGERS – Continent & Western
• GUIONNET/ THOMAS/ GUTHRIE – The Ames Room
• HARDING, RICHARD/ HARGREAVES, PHIL – Graculus
• HEU(S-K)ACH – un
• HOOKER, WILLIAM (Trio) – Yearn for Certainty
• INHABITANTS – A Vacant Lot
• JOOKLO DUO – The Warrior
• FUTTERMAN, JOEL/ LEVIN, IKE – Dialogues & Connections
• FUTTERMAN, JOEL/ JORDAN, ‘KIDD’ – Interaction
• FUTTERMAN, JOEL/ JORDAN, ‘KIDD’/ FIELDER, ALVIN – Live at Tampere
• KONITZ / CHEEK/ LEIBOVICI – Jugendstil II
• LOGAN, GIUSEPPI – The Giuseppi Logan Quintet
• NoMoreShapes – Creesus Crisus
• ORFEO 5 – A Year On The Ice
• PISARO, MICHAEL/ SUGIMOTO, TAKU – 2 Seconds/ B Minor / Wave
• PISARO, MICHAEL – Fields Have Ears
• POTSA LOTSA – The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy
• ROLLDOWN/ JASON ADASIEWICZ – Varmint
• SAINCT LAURENS – Self-titled
• TAKASE, AKI – A Week Went By
• tusK – Bug
• SWANS – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to The Sky
• WARE, DAVID S. – Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Vol. 1)

Re-Issues – Issue 6

• JACKSON, MICHAEL GREGORY – Clarity
• SIMMONS, SONNY – Staying on the Watch
• WATERS, PATTY – Sings

ISSUE 7 (March 2012)

Reviewers: David Grundy, Sandy Kindness, Ted Harms

CD Reviews – Issue 7

ANOTHER TIMBRE: SILENCE AND AFTER 1

• Arena Ladridos (AT35)
• Davies / Patterson / Toop (AT36)
• Looper (AT38)

ANOTHER TIMBRE: SILENCE AND AFTER 2 – CUTTING EDGES

• Tierce (AT43)
• James Saunders (AT44)
• Droplets (AT45)
• No Islands (AT/46)
• A Pauper’s Guide to John Cage (ATB-08)

 

• AEROPLANE TRIO – Naranja Ha
• BERROCAL / FENNECH / TAZARTÈS – Superdisque
• BEVAN / OBERMAYER / MARKS / LASH – A Big Hand
• CHATHAM, RHYS – Outdoor Spell
• CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO – Age of Energy
• CORNFORD, STEPHEN / RODGERS, SAMUEL – Zinc [extracts]
• CLEAVER, GERALD (UNCLE JUNE) – Be It as I See It
• CUNDY / LASH – Two Plump Daughters
• DUNN, LAWRENCE – If I in my north room
• DUPLANT, BRUNO – Deux Trois Choses Ou Presque
• FUTTERMAN, JOEL – Remembering Dolphy
• FUTTERMAN / JORDAN / PARKER / FIELDER – Live at the Guelph Jazz Festival 2011
• GAYLE, CHARLES (TRIO) – Streets
• GRDINA, GORD (TRIO) (feat. MATS GUSTAFFSON) – Barrel Fire
• G9 GIPFEL – Berlin
• KOCHER, JONAS – Solo
• NAKAMURA, TOSHIMARU – Maruto
• SKARABEE – Eardrum / tusK – Happy Shopper [split]
• SUBTLE LIP CAN – Subtle Lip Can
• UNDIVIDED – Moves Between Clouds: Live in Warsaw
• VARIOUS – 60 Interpretations of 60 Seconds by 60 Solo Improvisers

Historical / Re-Issues

• MALFATTI, RADU – Wechseljahre Einer Hyäne
• MITCHELL, ROSCOE – Before There Was Sound