Word: melodicism
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The last band Christina Billotte played in was the slightly slower, more complicated Autoclave, whose other guitarist, Mary Timony, is now headed for deserved superstardom in her Boston-based band Helium. The various parts of Autoclave's sound--the instrumental overlaps, the soulfulness, the rapid riff-changing--are now split...
This is Coleman--perhaps the greatest plastic alto saxophonist of all times--at his anguished, melodic best. Most of the tracks on this set feature Don Cherry on pocket-trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums--musicians who all were serious innovators in their own rights. It...
The ingredients of this marvelously unclassifiable entertainment, which is having a limited run ending this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, are a witches' brew of cabaret, silent-movie slapstick, Expressionist psychodrama, Japanese theater, lounge lizardry and high-tech wizardry. What keeps it bubbling is a melodic succession of...
In 1963 Lawrence of Arabia won the Academy Award as best film, but another nominated picture seemed to move America more, To Kill a Mockingbird, about race and justice and hope in the South. The music of young Americans was changing from perky love songs to stuff of a different...
Redman's fluency as a soloist is drawing comparisons to the young Sonny Rollins. Premature, of course, but it's been a long time since jazz produced a saxophonist with Redman's fearless improvisational skill and mature melodic sense. At 24, Redman already has plenty of name recognition. His father...