Brian Groder Trio Latham Records (CD) New York-based trumpeter/flugelhornist and composer Brian Groder is still relatively little-known, though he’s been a fixture in East Coast jazz communities since the 1980s. He made something of a splash on the creative music scene several years ago in collaborative recordings with pianist Burton Greene and reedist Sam
Steve Swell’s Kende Dreams Silkheart (CD) When engaging the work of someone who looms as large as the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, a number of paths may emerge. One could take on the fact that his research into the musics of Hungary, Romania, and other regional ethnographies presaged the bending of space and tonality by
A review of this record is now available here.
Relative Pitch Records (CD) Released February 19, 2016. Recorded by Atticus Pomerantz. Mixed and Mastered by Jim Clouse. Photography by Bayley Sweitzer. Executive production by Kevin Reilly & Mike Panico. Personnel: Leila Bordreuil (cello) Michael Foster (saxophones) Track List: Born of Its Own Asphyxiation Pleasure and Cruelty Intimate Shrinkage of My Body and the Castration
Clifford Allen’s review of the debut record by Pulverize the Sound, released May 19, 2015, is now available here.
Relative Pitch (CD) Personnel Peter Evans (trumpet) Tim Dahl (bass) Mike Pride (drums) Art is not entirely beautiful. Its ability to shape transcendent experience into material reality is often attached to aesthetic pleasure or “meaning,” but that isn’t to say such an angle requires consonance. Indeed, a large swath of art relies on confrontation, bewilderment
A review of the much-anticipated debut record by Barker Trio is now available here. –Cisco Bradley, November 7, 2015
Barker Trio Phantom Ear Music (CD) Personnel Andrew Barker (drums, compositions) Michael Foster (tenor & soprano saxophones) Tim Dahl (bass) Track Listing You Are a Real _____ Scarface Pajamas Failed States A Teeming Portal Inner Vortex New Wolves, Old Bones Invalid Request Review Barker Trio’s gripping yet subtle self-titled debut record is one of the
A review of Nate Wooley’s release of Seven Storey Mountain III and IV (Pleasure of the Text, 2013) is now available here.
Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain Pleasure of the Text (CD) This record is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium. It contains two CDs, both recorded live at Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), the first on March 11, 2011, and the second on June 6, 2013. Led by the visionary trumpet player, Nate Wooley,
