Astral Transference/Seven Dreams (Orenda) Los Angeles has a habit of throwing up musicians at odds with the mainstream. Ornette Coleman’s free jazz revolution began there, for instance, and Frank Zappa’s genre-bending body of work is among the twentieth century’s most distinctive. This is the third Daniel Rosenboom opus reviewed in…
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Souvenance (ECM) In the six tumultuous years since Anouar Brahem’s last album the Tunisian has watched his homeland explode amid the hopes and horrors of the Arab Spring. This double-album for quartet and string orchestra is his response. In no sense programmatic, it is rather the considered musical thoughts of…
From playing with charades with Beyonce and Jay Z to performing with traditional Algerian musicians is admittedly a stretch, but Barney McAll and Greg Lloyd headed overseas with the same idea: to expand their horizons. McAll went to New York and Lloyd to Paris, neither jazz pianist knowing what would…