Reviews that mention Frank Lowe
February 1, 2015
Out Loud
Triple Point Records TPR 209
Don Pullen
Richard’s Tune
Delmark/Sackville CD2-3008
Derek Bailey/Joëlle Léandre/George Lewis/Evan Parker
Dunois 1982
Fou Records FR-CD 06
Steve Lacy
Cycles (1976-80)
Emanem 5205
Ted Daniel’s Energy Module
Energy Module
NoBusiness Records NBCD 72/73
Something In The Air: Revolutionary Records Redux
By Ken Waxman
About 40 years on, so-called Free Jazz and Free Music from the late sixties, seventies and early eighties, doesn’t sound so revolutionary any more. The idea of improvising without chord structures or fixed rhythm has gradually seeped into most players’ consciousness, with the genre(s) now accepted as particular methods for improvisation along with Bop, Dixieland and Fusion. Historical perspective also means that many sessions originally recorded during that period are now being released. Some are reissues, usually with additional music added; others are newly unearthed tapes being issued for the first time. The best discs offer up formerly experimental sounds whose outstanding musicianship is more of a lure than nostalgia. MORE
December 21, 2014
NPR 9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014
Ken Waxman’s ballot
NEW RELEASES
1. Yoni Kretzmer-Pascal Niggenkemper-Weasel Walter, Protest Music (OutNow)
2. Paul Giallorenzo, Force Majeure (Delmark)
3. Kyle Bruckmann, . . . Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (SingleSpeed Music)
4. Sakata/Lonberg-Holm/Gutvik/Nilssen-Love, The Cliff of Time (PNL)
5. Alexander Hawkins, Step Wide, Step Deep (Babel)
6. François Carrier-Michel Lambert-Alexey Lapin, The Russia Concerts Volume 1/The Russia Concerts Volume 2 (FMR)
7. Rodrigo Amado & Jeb Bishop, The Flame Alphabet (NotTwo) MORE
March 7, 2005
Sweet Space/Untitled Gift
8th Harmonic Breakdown HB 8005/6
Fusion of two Billy Bang LPs originally issued on the Anima label plus four previously unreleased tracks, this two-CD set proves once again that a lot of excellent, advanced music was being made out of the media spotlight in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
While the focus then may have been on the discredited jazz-rock movement and emerging Young Lions, Free Jazz/Loft Movement veterans like Bang and crew were obstinately cutting out-of-the-ordinary sessions that, like Julius Hemphill and David Murray’s records of the time, contained basic swing roots fused with atonal solos. MORE