Free Jazz
Track: John Dwyer, Ted Byrnes, Greg Coates, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins share ‘No Flutter/Goose’; more loose, free impro from the Osees nexus
WE NEED not look any further here at just how productive John Dwyer and the whole O Sees nexus is – suffice to say, wow; and just weeks on from the John Dwyer, Ted Byrnes, Greg Coates, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins album Snow Goose, our review of which you can find here, that particular free-roamin’ …
TRACK: David Lord – ‘Cloud Ear’: Chicago-style free guitar jazz teases for new LP
ON THE other side of the guitarist spectrum from the strut and stomp are the outliers, dogged explorers of the fretboard, scholars of the instrument’s sonic complexity. Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Fripp, James Blood Ulmer, Pat Metheny can be found at this end of the rainbow; along with more recent luminaries like Chris Brokaw, Yonotan …
TRACK: Steph Richards – ‘Underbelly’: marvellous free jazz trails LP – with accompanying scents …
STEPH RICHARDS – the composer, free jazz trumpeter and bandleader who’s worked with artists as diverse as St Vincent, Yoko Ono and Anthony Braxton, knows a thing or two about how to envelop the senses. But for her new album, Supersense, she’s taking a step further into the multi-sensory, even the synaesthesic – working alongside …
Album Review: Flame Tree Ft Nik Turner
Original Hawkwind Saxophonist and flautist Nik Turner recently joined Seattle-based experimental jazz ensemble Flame Tree (Dennis Rea on guitar, Paul “PK” Kemmish on bass, and Jack Gold-Molina on drums) for an unexpected way-out album of improvisation and freaky free form adventure. Jack Gold-Molina, who played in Spectral Waves with Dennis Rea, in the autumn of …