Michael Ullman
This collection demonstrates that the music of Ornette Coleman is in tune with something elemental and essential in the human spirit.
Several of these discs, including the sublime Jim Hall-Red Mitchell collaboration, are unexpected pleasures.
Contagious enjoyment is very much the goal of Ken Field’s Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Mission accomplished.
Dave Liebman’s band, like its adventurous leader, is more than willing to take a deep dive.
Collectors and serious blues fans will want to own this invaluable set.
Over a dozen short notices of recent jazz recordings that I find musically stimulating.
Country for Old Men is surely going to stand as one of the best, as well as among the most unusual, recordings of the year.
Ben Ratliff’s volume about how to listen to music is full of fairly radical but largely undefended assertions.
Time has only made the members of this trio more adventurous as well as accomplished.
Music Remembrance: Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson — Making the Imagination Run
“When you think about music it’s got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.”
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