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Senators SEC-01 ©Laurence Svirchev 10 of Dukes + 6 Originals is a solo soprano saxophone concert recital. Set one comprises ten Ellington compositions from 1929-40;. Set two decants compositions dedicated to artists as diverse as Melville, Ryókan, and Stevie Wonder. Lacy votaries may be surprised that he . . . → Read More: Steve Lacy: 10 of Dukes + 6 Originals Monk’s Dream: Verve 543 090-2 Hooky, Solo in Montreal 1976: Emanem 4042 ©Laurence Svirchev It’s about time that Steve Lacy, that percipient nous of modern music, scored on a major label like Verve. He has been universally recognized among his musician peers for decades as one of the most articulate players of the soprano saxophone. . . . → Read More: Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd: Monk’s Dream; Steve Lacy: Hooky Photography & Words ©Laurence Svirchev He has led/participated in over 200 recordings, walked the Brooklyn Bridge with Sonny Rollins, collaborated with Gil Evans for thirty years. He is the foremost contemporary interpreter of the music of Thelonious Sphere Monk, with whom he played for two years, and whose music he has . . . → Read More: A Portrait of Steve Lacy Oxford University Press 2001 ©Laurence Svirchev Genius musician Thelonious Sphere Monk died in 1982, a young 64 years old. Monk was a man who had long captured the attention of the press because of his enigmatic demeanor and awry music, but amazingly the first book about him only appeared . . . → Read More: The Thelonious Monk Reader, Edited by: Rob van der Bliek Mosaic Records #200 ©Laurence Svirchev Johnny Hodges, with a series of nicknames like “Rabbit” and “Jeep”, was a musical hero in his time. His alto saxophone sound and phrasing was inimitable. He enjoyed popularity both as leader of his own bands and as a long time member of the . . . → Read More: Johnny Hodges: The Complete Small Group Verve Sessions 1956-61 Words & Photography ©Laurence Svirchev A casual glance at the covers of glossy jazz magazines, a stroll through the aisles of any large CD store, or a squint at the fashion pages handily demonstrates the cult of handsome, competent, and female singers who tirelessly and tediously repeat the canon of 50-70 . . . → Read More: Gerry Hemingway, Composer and Drummer: Entering the Realm of Art Song Tampere, Finland is located on about the same latitude as Whitehorse in the Yukon. A three hour train ride north of the capital of Helsinki, it is the last city one leaves before venturing into Finland’s true north. In November the climate is a transition into the sunless winter and is not the . . . → Read More: Tampere Jazz Happening, Finland: November 2-4, 2001 ©Laurence Svirchev Certain music festivals stamp their audacious mark by programming the most adventurously valid music available. These festivals tend to be located in places that are well-known only to local residents or the afficionados who make it their business to find niches housing the most sublime musical satisfactions. Such festivals . . . → Read More: Tampere Jazz Happening October 30-November 1, 1998 Interview & Photography ©Laurence Svirchev You never know what darkened comer Lisle Ellis music will strike from, what chops he will use to resonate never-before heard sounds from string and wood, or what instrumentation/choreography he will incorporate into a work. Lisle Ellis is a musical surprise attack, the ninja of the . . . → Read More: Lisle Ellis: Ninja Of The Bass ©Laurence M Svirchev Some landscapes are so terrifyingly beautiful and forbiddingly austere that only the most masterful musicians dare navigate them and return home triumphantly. On Any Terrain Tumultuou, François Houle (clarinet) and Marilyn Crispell (piano) explore such vistas with a complex interplay between written and improvisational sections, periods of quietude released from dynamic harmonic . . . → Read More: François Houle and Marilyn Crispell: Any Terrain Tumultuous |
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