Page 14 – Gerry Gibbs – Songs From My Father – feature story by Ted Panken Page 19 – Steven Feifke – Kinetic – feature story by Allen Morrison Page 44 – Oscar Hernández – Visión – review by Brian Morton Page 43 – Duck Baker / Roswell Rudd – Live – review by Howard … Read More
by Brian Morton, Downbeat “In an interview from several years ago significantly titled “Going Beyond Categorization,” Brianna Thomas talks about her sense of song already being present and simply happening upon it. That might also apply to her own songcraft, in which she already has escaped genre categorization.” Read the full review here.
By Brian Morton, Jazz Journal “Johnson deliberately starts somewhere quite distant from orthodox changes jazz, with a version of No More ‘I Love You’s, a song most closely associated with Annie Lennox” Read the full review here.
by Brian Morton, the Wire
Brian Morton, Jazz Journal The Chinese Wu Xing, which developed its systematic form around the same time as Christianity, is usually translated as the “five planets” (to emphasise its “moving” root), or the “five phases” or more reductively, the “five elements”. Hofbauer has used a less well-known form for the name of his group, but … Read More
Brian Morton, Jazz Journal Sometimes the jazz fairy really is listening. I was spooling through some old stuff recently, after writing a posthumous appreciation of Hamiet Bluiett and thought to myself I wonder if there are any good young baritone players coming through that I haven’t heard of? And then Night turns up in the mail. I’d … Read More
