Jazz is a web. Because of the genre’s inherently collaborative, often mix-and-match nature, singling out a supporting player we like on a given record might lead us to dozens of other sessions featuring that same artist in various contexts. Or we might pick up a certain current in the music that crops up elsewhere, unifying albums that seemed to have little else in common. In 2020, when connection of any kind was scarce, these sorts of musical hyperlinks seemed all the more precious, a way to map and marvel at...
- 12/15/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Ginger Baker was a paradox: a gamechanging rock drummer who insisted that he “never played rock,” a forefather of heavy metal who couldn’t stand the genre, and a Londoner who thoroughly assimilated African drumming styles. That’s why, if you only know him in one context — with barnstorming blues-rock trio Cream, in short-lived supergroup Blind Faith, alongside Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, or in one of his later jazz combos — you’re missing out on a fuller understanding of the contribution this irascible icon made to his art form.
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- 10/6/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Film-maker Bill Morrison's movie-collage The Great Flood, a solemn procession of battered, monochrome movie images from the Mississippi river disaster of 1927, would be a memorable drama even played in total silence. In closeup, it shows trickling streams and rain on cotton plants swelling into torrents; cigar-toting politicians gesticulate reassuringly, and the wealthy making dignified retreats while the impoverished cling to the remains of shacks. Guitarist Bill Frisell's live soundtrack of howling blues chords, Thelonious Monk hooks, country-swing and Old Man River quotes would make a fine concert without a film, too. Put the two together, however, as Frisell and Morrison have been doing this year, and the result moves up another creative and emotional level. The Great Flood has been one of the highlights of the 2012 London jazz festival so far.
Morrison hasn't cleaned up the old movie stock, and the film's sudden flashes...
Film-maker Bill Morrison's movie-collage The Great Flood, a solemn procession of battered, monochrome movie images from the Mississippi river disaster of 1927, would be a memorable drama even played in total silence. In closeup, it shows trickling streams and rain on cotton plants swelling into torrents; cigar-toting politicians gesticulate reassuringly, and the wealthy making dignified retreats while the impoverished cling to the remains of shacks. Guitarist Bill Frisell's live soundtrack of howling blues chords, Thelonious Monk hooks, country-swing and Old Man River quotes would make a fine concert without a film, too. Put the two together, however, as Frisell and Morrison have been doing this year, and the result moves up another creative and emotional level. The Great Flood has been one of the highlights of the 2012 London jazz festival so far.
Morrison hasn't cleaned up the old movie stock, and the film's sudden flashes...
- 11/15/2012
- by John Fordham
- The Guardian - Film News
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