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The Blood Of Heroes
The Blood of Heroes and Remain (Ohm Resistance) by Phil Freeman Buy The Blood of Heroes from Amazon Buy Remain from Amazon Bassist/producer Bill Laswell‘s discography may seem imposing at first glance,...
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Interview: Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell‘s discography, as producer and bassist, label head and general eye-of-the-storm, is vast and can be intimidating. Not all of it’s brilliant. His central concept of collision—taking...
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Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love
Woodcuts (Smalltown Superjazzz) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon This album came out in early 2010, but Peter Brötzmann is the kind of artist on whose work one can quite easily get burned out, so...
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Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness/Lord of Lords (Verve) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon [Verve has recently reissued many Impulse! titles as twofers. Among them are discs by Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders,...
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Touchin’ On Trane: 20 Years Later
by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon On October 31 and November 1, 1991, saxophonist Charles Gayle, bassist William Parker, and drummer Rashied Ali occupied a Berlin recording studio. Jost Gebers, head...
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Power Trio Prog
Raoul Bjorkenheim/Bill Laswell/Morgen Ågren Blixt (Cuneiform) Buy it from Amazon Levin Torn White Levin Torn White (Lazy Bones) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman Back in February, I interviewed Bill...
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A List Of 50 Jazz Albums
by Phil Freeman Apparently April 30 is International Jazz Day. So as a way of subverting the canon-building exercises that are sure to go on across the jazz internet today, I’ve come up with a list of...
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The Franks
Frank Lowe The Loweski (ESP-Disk) Frank Wright Quartet Blues for Albert Ayler (ESP-Disk) by Phil Freeman Frank Lowe‘s Black Beings is one of my favorite ESP-Disk releases. Coming toward the end of the...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! 30-21
Our week-long countdown reaches its midpoint, as we offer you #s 30-21 of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists Ever. And don’t miss a bonus list at the end – Darius Jones‘ five favorite saxophonists! Shall we...
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Charles Gayle
Look Up (ESP-Disk) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon I interviewed Charles Gayle once. It was nearly a dozen years ago, in the front room of his tiny Lower East Side apartment. We sat across from each...
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John Coltrane: The Posthumous Years
Today would have been saxophonist John Coltrane‘s 87th birthday, had he not died of liver cancer in 1967, at 40. In the wake of his passing, his wife Alice arranged with Impulse! Records to release...
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Dead Neanderthals: This Story’s Not Ending Badly Just Yet
It’s been a productive year for Dutch saxophone-drums duo Dead Neanderthals, coming off the March release of their fourth album Polaris on Utech Records, and the recent limited-edition self-released...
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Video: Unconscious Collective
Unconscious Collective are the trio of guitarist Gregg Prickett, bassist Aaron González and drummer Stefan González. The latter two are brothers, and the sons of trumpeter Dennis González, with whom...
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Milford Graves & Bill Laswell
Bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Milford Graves have recorded a studio album, Space/Time Redemption, for the Finnish TUM label; it’s out now. (Get it from Amazon.) The disc contains five lengthy...
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Franklin Kiermyer
Drummer Franklin Kiermyer has been a respected player on the US jazz scene for decades, though he’s only recorded a few albums, with a long break in between. He debuted as a leader with 1992’s Break...
View ArticleKeith Jarrett In The 70s
by Phil Freeman Considering the size of his discography and his prominence in the world of jazz, I haven’t really spent very much time at all listening to Keith Jarrett. I reviewed one of his solo...
View ArticleTown Hall 1972
Saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton turned 75 last week, on June 4. The Tri-Centric Foundation is celebrating this monumental anniversary all year, releasing new music and doing other things; many...
View ArticlePB @ 80
Legendary saxophonist Peter Brötzmann turns 80 tomorrow, March 6. I’ve been listening to him for at least 25 of those years. I can’t remember the first album of his I heard, but it was probably Last...
View ArticleBA Podcast 68: Andrew Cyrille
Episode 68 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with drummer Andrew Cyrille. Andrew Cyrille is the last man standing from the first wave of free jazz drummers. He and Milford Graves,...
View ArticleImmolation
Immolation have never made a bad album. Like all the great, pioneering death metal bands — Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Incantation, Obituary and Suffocation — they play to their strengths and rarely...
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