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Jeff Parker – Like-Coping
Jeff Parker – Like-Coping Delmark DG 543 (2003) Compact Disc Jeff Parker has been part of some of the most exciting groups in Chicago including the Chicago Underground, Tortoise, Isotope 217, and Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble. His first solo release, Like-Coping may be sorely overdo, but it was well worth the wait. Fans of…
Anthony Braxton – Four Compositions (GTM) 2000
Anthony Braxton – Four Compositions (GTM) 2000 Delmark DG 544 (2003) Compact Disc To paraphrase the old stock brokerage commercial: “When Anthony Braxton plays, people listen.” And they have been doing so for decades, through dozens of recordings spanning an evolution that is remarkable for its independence and virtuosity. Braxton’s first two albums, Three Compositions…
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble – Capetown Shuffle: Live at HotHouse
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble – Capetown Shuffle [Live at HotHouse] Delmark DG 545 (2003) Compact Disc An inspired soulfulness dominates the four extended compositions that make up Capetown Shuffle, the second Delmark release by saxophonist Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble. Recorded in Chicago, August of 2002, Capetown Shuffle celebrates numerous facets of the African…
Josh Abrams – Cipher
Josh Abrams – Cipher Delmark DG 546 (2003) Compact Disc Bassist Josh Abrams’ quartet embodies a devastating geographic cross section of today’s free music. Abrams started in Philly’s The Roots and went on to Chicago’s Town And Country and the David Boykin Expanse. Jeff Parker is well known for his work with Tortoise, Chicago Underground,…
Active Ingredients – Titration
Active Ingredients – Titration Delmark DG 547 (2003) Compact Disc Since moving to New York from Chicago, where he performed regularly with the Chicago Underground, drummer Chad Taylor has found a niche with a group of like-minded musicians affiliated with Brooklyn’s Jump Arts collective. Altoist Jemeel Moondoc, another Chicago transplant, has been a pivotal figure…
Malachi Thompson and Africa Brass – Blue Jazz
Malachi Thompson and Africa Brass – Blue Jazz [w/ Gary Bartz & Billy Harper] Delmark DE 548 (2003) Compact Disc
Fred Anderson – Back At The Velvet Lounge [Live]
Fred Anderson – Back At The Velvet Lounge [Live] Delmark DG 549 (2003) Compact Disc “Brimming with melodic insight and still able to raise the roof with his intensity, Anderson’s sonic vocabulary is now completely his own,” Down Beat, from the review of On The Run: Live At The Velvet Lounge (Delmark 534) This second…
Curtis Fuller – Up Jumped Spring [w/ Brad Goode]
Curtis Fuller – Up Jumped Spring [w/ Brad Goode] Delmark DG 550 (2004) Compact Disc Trombonist Curtis Fuller was born and raised in Detroit, a hotbed of new jazz talent in the ’50s. In ’57 Fuller went to New York to make his recorded debut as part of the Yusef Lateef Quintet. He was 22…
