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©Laurence Svirchev LS: You’ve been playing this music a long time. Would you tell the JazzPhoto audience how your music has changed. Perhaps you can start from the beginning of your career. Schlippenbach: I started to get in touch with jazz at the age of 11 or 12 at . . . → Read More: “If You Start from Point-Zero, You have to Imagine Something” An interview with Alexander von Schlippenbach Words & Photography ©Laurence Svirchev. First publication 2005 Founded by Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1966, Globe Unity has one of the more intriguing approaches to improvising. Making a coherent musical statement with eleven improvising musicians is a formidable undertaking yet Globe Unity’s tackles the task with aplomb. Globe Unity Schlippenbach . . . → Read More: Globe Unity Orchestra: Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon 2005 Editor’s Note: The following essays from 2011 string together the complete review of the Globe Unity Orchestra’s 40th Anniversary Concert at the Berlin Jazz Festival. The first essay was jointly published with Signal to Noise magazine. The second essay provides a brief hisotry of the Globe Unity Orchestra. The third traces the hisotry . . . → Read More: 40th Anniversary Concert of the Globe Unity Orchestra
by: George E. Lewis If you want to see a telling face of the Globe Unity Orchestra, watch the opening moments of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film, Das Leben der Anderen, about the dislocations of community under the Stasi-surveilled Deutsche Demokratische Republik (GDR). Notice the portrayal of . . . → Read More: Globe Unity And The Little Red Hen The Dave Brubeck Quartet was among the most popular, tightest-sounding, long-lasting, and lucrative combos in jazz history. Brubeck, academically trained under Darius Milhaud, was outspoken about the use of improvisation, polytonality, and polyrhythm in jazz. Brubeck and Paul Desmond frequently composed in 5/4, 9/8, 11/4, not your average time signatures in the 1950’s . . . → Read More: Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings 1962-1968, Columbia/Legacy (C2K65495); Live at the It Club Complete Columbia/Legacy (C2K65288) ©Laurence Svirchev
Thelonious Sphere Monk was his given name at birth. He had a nickname that was used pejoratively in the press of the time: Melodious . . . → Read More: Thelonious Sphere Monk: Monk Alone & Live at the It Club Capitol Jazz ©Laurence Svirchev This long-unavailable 1961 recording was the product of a serendipitous meeting between Strayhorn and producer Alan Douglas in a Parisian night-club where “Strays” hung out. As Duke Ellington’s right-hand man, Strayhorn composed and arranged many of Ellington’s best-known tunes. He recorded infrequently on his own. Douglas’ intention was to . . . → Read More: The Peaceful Side of Billy Strayhorn I typically avoid the first person pronoun but this review is an exception, for my personal reaction to Seeking was particularly intense. I have a little drill I . . . → Read More: John Carter – Bobby Bradford Quartet – Seeking hatOLOGY 620 Mingus Ah Um CK 65512 Mingus Dynasty CK 65513 Alternate Takes CK 65514 ©Laurence@Ssvirchev.com Forty years after they were recorded, Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty remain fresh, bold statements. The songs swing hard, are compositionally concise, and have a huge range of dynamics and coloration. The musicians interpreting Mingus’ compositions . . . → Read More: Charles Mingus: The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings 
© Laurence Svirchev Paul Rutherford, the British improvising trombonist, died on August 6, 2007. He was kind and gentle, fond of sitting in a pub and sipping beer for long hours, discussing music, politics, human frailty, anything that affected the well-being of humanity, especially that of its artists. He held an abiding . . . → Read More: Paul Rutherford, Fare Thee Well |
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