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A Brief Interruption
We’re 1/3 of the way through the “31 Days of Album Reviews,” and I would have just keep plowing ahead, but I spotted this awesome video and had to share it. So…intermission!
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Mike DiRubbo
Chronos (Posi-Tone) by Phil Freeman Buy from Amazon Alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo has been around the New York scene for a while, doing the straight-ahead hard-bop thing. He studied with Jackie McLean,...
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Interview: ELEW
Interview by Phil Freeman ELEW (the artist formerly known as Eric Lewis) is striking out at the artificially imposed boundaries of jazz. On his debut CD, Rockjazz Vol. 1, he delivers pummeling...
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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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Sonny Rollins
On Impulse/There Will Never Be Another You (Impulse!/Verve) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon [Verve has recently reissued many Impulse! titles as twofers. Among them are discs by Albert Ayler,...
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Elvin Jones
Illumination!/Dear John C. (Verve/Impulse) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon [Verve has recently reissued many Impulse! titles as twofers. Among them are discs by Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny...
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Michael White
Spirit Dance/Pneuma (Verve/Impulse!) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman This is another Verve/Impulse! 2-for-1 CD, but one combining two possibly more obscure albums than the titles by Alice Coltrane,...
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Interview: Erik Deutsch
by Phil Freeman Erik Deutsch is a keyboardist whose last two albums, 2009′s Hush Money and the brand-new Demonio Teclado (available tomorrow), put him in a pretty fascinating space, somewhere that’s...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!!: 50-41
Welcome to the official Burning Ambulance countdown of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists Ever. The list was determined by means we shall not disclose, though a number of jazz critics and musicians offered...
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Mostly Other People Do The Killing
Slippery Rock (Hot Cup) by Phil Freeman The fifth studio album by Mostly Other People Do The Killing (sixth release overall – the live The Coimbra Concert, their only album not to appear on...
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John Coltrane – Sun Ship
John Coltrane‘s Sun Ship is an album that’s tended to fall through the cracks. Recorded in 1965, it was one of the final sessions with the so-called “Classic Quartet” with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist...
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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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The Best Jazz Albums Of 2013: #5-1
Here they are: the top five entries in the Burning Ambulance countdown of the 25 best jazz albums of 2013. (Click here to see #s 25-21; click here for #s 20-16; click here for #s 15-11; click here for...
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Matt Slocum
Drummer/composer Matt Slocum‘s third album, Black Elk’s Dream, is out this week. Inspired by the book Black Elk Speaks, it includes 11 original compositions and a version of guitarist Pat Metheny‘s “Is...
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Kid Millions & Jim Sauter
Oneida drummer Kid Millions and Borbetomagus saxophonist Jim Sauter have collaborated on the album Fountain, which has been out since September on the Family Vineyard label. (Get it from Amazon.) It’s...
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Joe Farrell
Noted jazz producer Don Schlitten liked to start record labels. In the 1950s, he launched Signal, which put out a few hard bop titles before being sold to Savoy, and in 1972, he co-founded the...
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Jeremy Pelt
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt is on a regular schedule at this point: Every January, he puts out an album, like clockwork, and for the last five years, each one has been very different from the one before. In...
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Dan Weiss
Drummer/composer Dan Weiss‘s new album Sixteen: Drummers Suite will be released next week on Pi Recordings. Each track is named in tribute to a particular drummer, and takes a piece of that drummer’s...
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Gabriel Ferrandini
Photo: Nuno Martins Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Portuguese avant-jazz scene knows drummer Gabriel Ferrandini‘s name. He’s a member of two excellent groups: the RED Trio with pianist...
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George Coleman
Photo by Jesse Cahill Last week, I saw tenor saxophonist George Coleman perform at the Jazz Standard. He was accompanied by pianist Jeb Patton, bassist David Wong, and his son, George Coleman, Jr., on...
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