Tag: Gerald Cleaver

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In the best way the borders feel ever more porous when it comes to contemporary jazz. Beyond the infusion of Latin American and West African rhythms or European chamber music into martial airs, piano rags and hard blues grooves - aspects of jazz which are scarcely modes but for many decades now constitutional parts of the form - it...

Since bursting onto the scene with Little Women back in 2007 - an innovative noise jazz ensemble which featured the twin horns of Jones and the future Battle Trance tenor Travis Laplante plus the increasingly ubiquitous Anteloper drummer Jason Nazary, with Ben Greenberg making way for Andrew Smiley on the guitar by the time of the quartet's first full-length...

Allen Lowe's short bio says that the veteran saxophonist and guitarist 'spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few have'. While sharing bebop idioms and offering an especially gritty take on the avant-garde, some of his earliest records incorporated not only roots music in the form of nascent jazz and blues but tango theatrics...