All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Charles Tyler Ensemble possesses a profound quality. Unlike many records of the mid-1960s, it burns with a quiet blue flame, eschewing the intellectual posturing that characterized much new music in the avant-garde era. Tyler, a baritone saxophonist who became an acolyte of {{Albert Ayler = 3538}}--following him to New York in the early part of the movement--transposes Ayler's famous gravitas to the...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler performed his greatest music in a state of spiritual ecstasy. Like fellow seekers John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, he looked to use music as a Buddhist might use meditation or a Baptist might speak in tongues: to make contact with something greater than himself. Recorded in Copenhagen on September 14th, 1964, this may be the finest group Ayler ever led. Featuring the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Meet Jair-Rohm Parker Wells: Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is an improvising musician based in Stockholm, Sweden. Curator of the MEETING series of festivals and developer of Loopadelica, a method of improvising with looping devices. Bassist with the improvising trio Decision Dream. Current with the releases AMDG (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam) on Klanggold and Meditations on Albert Ayler on Ayler Records...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Charles Tyler was an innovative musician who could unfurl a maelstrom of ideas from just a spark. He played with fire and spirit, finding his muse in free jazz and filling his music with bold inventions. Tyler met {{Albert Ayler = 3538}} when he was 14. He later went on to play with Ayler, whose influence can be heard in his approach. Tyler, however, held his own shining in the company of other free...
Another Lost Shark (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
“The Deadnotes are low key, low skill and lo-fi…” or so says Clive Bell of British indie music bible The Wire. So if you are anywhere near Brisbane this Thursday night (November 5) and avant-art is your thing, look no further than The Deadnotes ‘Orange Trumpet’ LP launch party at the IMA. The gig kicks off at [...]
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
I am known at work for (among other things) having a esoteric taste in music. Sharing an office with four other people in close proximity, I carve out my own little niche in the maelstrom by playing music as much as possible. So when a colleague whose musical interests extend as far as Coldplay came in, handed me a list and asked "Do you have any of these CD's?" I was taken aback, to say...
KoreAudio (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
...AKA lets fuck HMV! Here at London School of Sound we dig little damp disorganised record stores owned by enthusiasts rather than faceless corporate giants pedaling AOR and my favorites are... ... Revival Records on Berwick St, its hit and miss but if you go with a zen pure mind and a sense of adventure you can come out with a load of treasures. Many is the time I have despaired of ever finding that...
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
What is the most fucked up transcendental/or immanent music you can think of? Whitehouse, Albert Ayler, Brutal Truth, Tuvan Throat Singing, Gamelan, The Germs?
Long story; short pier (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Never should have played her that Albert Ayler song.
metropolis (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It was something Vinny Golia said to me recently that got me to remembering those first self-produced LPs of the Los Angeles free jazz community. He said that when John Carter put out his own ECHOES FROM RUDOLPH’S and just before that James Newton’s own self-produced FLUTE MUSIC hit the streets, both in 1977, [...] Related posts: the kool festival | beverly theatre | los angeles 1982 mark...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
When the veracity of the history of twentieth-century art is evaluated, what will be found in the proverbial time capsule? Where will "The Music," which {{Jelly Roll Morton = 9632}} christened as jass, sit with the works that were created by important composers, ranging from {{Duke Ellington, = 6521}} {{Charles Mingus, = 9429}} and {{John Coltrane, = 5851}} to {{Thelonious Monk, = 9507}},...
Johnny Brenda's (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
BUY TICKETS Akron/Family- Ahhh! Beloved friends return! Akron/Family will be celebrating this year’s new album, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free on Dead Oceans, with a very special appearance at Johnny Brendas. Whether it’s the three members of Akron/Family (Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton and Dana Janssen) communicating, interacting and creating with one another onstage with [...]
JamsBio (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
If jazz needed a Patti Smith, a frank and alluring wordsmith with an abiding love of rock and roll, it found one in Annette Peacock. Throughout the sixties and seventies, Peacock fused free jazz with rock, electronic music and poetry, developing an idiosyncratic artistic language that has rarely garnered the attention it deserved.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
The dauntless, combustible energies of jazz’s 1960s avant-garde have long held a deep attraction for the guitarist Marc Ribot. His public profile may involve a great deal of tact and concision — he works widely as a gun for hire, often infusing low-gloss pop albums with a proper hint of twang — but as a bandleader he tends to reach for a messier, more transcendent ideal....
JamsBio (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
Ali will best be remembered as John Coltrane's drummer during the crucial late phases of his career when he all but abandoned traditional jazz forms for a freer, heavily improvised style that reflected his religious ambitions.
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