Album Review: Steve Coleman's 'Harvesting Semblances and Affinities'
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PDX Jazz, the presenting organization of the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival presented by U.S. Bank, announces the October 23rd appearance by Avishai Cohen. The Israeli-born and Paris-based EMI-France recording artist is set to perform at the Winningstad Theater, an intimate 300 seat venue located within the Portland Center [...]
The press release accompanying this, guitarist/sound sculptor Barry Cleveland's fifth album as leader, identifies its chief musical inspirations as 'art rock, psychedelia, metal, ambient, world music, trance and funk', and Hologramatron does indeed leave the impression that Cleveland (an influential editor with Guitar Player magazine and something of a production freak – hence his interest in UK 1960s legend Joe Meek, manifest here in a lively visit to the late man's classic 'Telstar')...
Biographical accounts of singer Tessa Souter always bristle with hyphens (London-born, New York-based, Anglo-Trinidadian), but perhaps the most significant one lies between 'award' and 'winning'. While her world-citizen status does seem to have opened her ears to a refreshingly wide variety of musical styles
'Soulful jazz for a new generation', played by 'a group ready to redefine the boundaries of any genre' was promised in Sojourner's programme note, and leader/pianist Jonathan Geyevu, like many of his young contemporaries, is certainly open-eared enough to incorporate a wide variety of rhythms and styles into his music. 
The group sound on this, drummer Martin France's Spin Marvel's second album, is described by him as 'not locked into a conventional grid of pulse or beat, but mov[ing] away from this format and out into a different space'. The resultant music's most obvious stylistic reference point is the European free/ambient music perhaps most readily associated with Scandinavia and most famously manifest (in the UK, at least) in the music of one of France's old Loose Tubes bandmates, Iain Ballamy (in his Food mode). 
From the opening vibrant bass solo onwards, and throughout its subsequent thirteen tracks, Houria delivers top-drawer, tough collectively improvised music from leader/main composer Stéphane Kerecki and his tight, lively band, completed by saxophonists Tony Malaby (soprano/tenor) and Matthieu Donarier (ditto), and drummer Thomas Grimmonprez. 
Summer 2010 Jazz Singing Workshop with Nancy King and Mary Kadderly
Dates: Wednesdays July 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2010
Time: 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Location: The first three classes are at a studio in the Hawthorne area of SE Portland. The fourth class will be a performance at a location TBA.
Cost: $250.00
What: An emphasis on jazz singing [...]
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Taken from recordings of live concerts by Anthony Braxton's quartet (completed by guitarist Kevin O'Neil, bassist Andy Eulau and drummer Kevin Norton) all over Europe in 2003, these four CDs document the celebrated multi-instrumentalist's ongoing dialogue with both the Great American songbook (here represented by the likes of 'Body and Soul', 'It's You or No One', 'East of the Sun', 'Nancy with the Laughing Face') and jazz classics such as Monk's 'Ruby My Dear', Jackie McLean's 'Little Melonae' and Coltrane's 'Mr. P.C.'. It also contains an improvisation, 'G. Petal', recorded in Brussels.