Still going strong as ever on ‘Muscle Memory,’ Dave Sewelson left it all on the field in leading a dream team with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Steve Swell and Steve Hirsh.
When advanced improvisers like Ivo Perelman, Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee get together as they did on ‘Oxygen,’ advanced instantly produced art is the outcome.
The four musicians of ‘NuMBq’ led by Michael Bisio puts a bit of a classical orchestra into their quartet of unbound adventurers.
Matthew Shipp has made a lot of solo piano records but they never grow tiresome because of his ability to express something fresh every time. That’s the intrinsic nature of Shipp.
Ivo Perelman is up to his usual tricks o ‘Molten Gold,’ making up melodies on the run with trombone great Ray Anderson for four amazing improvisations.
Ivo Perelman’s one-on-one improvisations with 12 distinct reedists ‘Reed Rapture In Brooklyn’ is the story of an ambitious project told through a box set of recordings now being told through a full-length documentary.
‘Artificial Intelligence’ has certain qualities brought by Elliott Sharp that are novel even by Ivo Perelman’s standards.
Hearing Roscoe Mitchell on ‘Reed Rapture in Brooklyn’ is a feast. Doing so with another vanguard saxophonist in Ivo Perelman makes it all the more special.
Joe Lovano – a titan of modern and mainstream jazz – finds a lot of common ground with a titan of free jazz, Ivo Perelman.
‘Spontaneous folk music’ accurately speaks to the unpretentious nature of the music that Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker and Steve Hirsh made.
