Leader: collaborative Years Active: 2011-present Personnel: Brad Henkel (trumpet) Sean Ali (bass) David Grollman (snare drum) Albums: Moist Areas (Eh? Records, 2012) Live Performances: Date Venue Media 2014 Feb 25 JACK Feb 20 Ibeam 2013 Aug 27 Spectrum Mar 10 The Stone Feb 21 Lark Café
This was an amazing year with a number of innovative and revolutionary releases that made it very difficult to choose. I spent many days narrowing the best records of 2014 down to fifteen: Josh Sinton’s Ideal Bread – Beating the Teens (Cuneiform) Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance – Palace of Wind (NNA Tapes) Rodrigo Amado Motion
Silke Eberhard Trio – What a Beauty Being (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) William Parker’s In Order to Survive – The Peach Orchard (AUM Fidelity, 1998) VAX – Count to VAX (self-released, 2014) Matt Nelson – Lower Bottoms (Tubapede, 2014) Jesse Stacken – Helleborus (Fresh Sound, 2014) Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)
Reviews Variable Bets (2014) by Tomas Fujiwara Trio Sediment (2014) by Carlo Costa Quartet Interviews Fay Victor Videos Evan Parker, Peter Evans, and Charles Evans Live at the Stone John Welsh Solo Live at the Manhattan Inn Fay Victor and Brandon Seabrook Live at New Revolution Arts While We Still Have Bodies Live at New
Band: While We Still Have Bodies (Michael Foster, Ben Gerstein, Sean Ali, Flin van Hemmen) Videographer: Don Mount
Band: Fay Victor, Brandon Seabrook Videographer: Don Mount
Band: John Welsh Videographer: Don Mount
Band: Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Charles Evans Videographer: Kevin Reilly
Band: Matt Nelson Videographer: Kevin Reilly
Cecil Taylor – Air above Mountains (Inner City, 1973) [vinyl] William Parker Organ Quartet – Uncle Joe’s Spirit House (Centering, 2010) Raphe Malik – Consequences (Eremite, 1999) Thollem McDonas, William Parker, Nels Cline – The Gowanus Session (Porter, 2012) William Parker – Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM Fidelity, 2006) The Element Choir & William
