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May 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt: Made Out of Sound

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt Made Out of Sound Palilalia I love Bill Orcutt. He hits at the guitar in a way that makes me think of heroes like Marc Ribot and Sonny Sharrock. There’s wildness in his way – he tears at the strings and the ugly side of a beautiful melody is instantly […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt: Made Out of Sound, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Drums, Free Jazz, Guitar, Improv, Improvisation, Instrumental, Lockdown, Made Out of Sound, Pandemic, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley: Being Astral & All Registers: Power of Two

Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley Being Astral & All Registers: Power of Two Discus Music Cecil Taylor left this dimension nearly three years ago now – he’s almost certainly swirling elsewhere, projecting, transmitting; at the very least his towering influence continues to sway jazzers to the freer side. It’s quite possible that Taylor invented free […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Being Astral & All Registers, Being Astral & All Registers: Power of Two, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley, Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley: Being Astral & All Registers: Power of Two, Discus Music, Drums, Duo, Free Jazz, Improv, Piano, Power of Two, Tony Oxley, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp: Dark Matrix

Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp Dark Matrix Not Two Records You find Daniel Carter and his saxophone in a variety of places. A free-jazz player, he’s made dozens of albums on his own or as bandleader, several at the side of William Parker and he’s sat in on sessions from the indie-rock, dance and hip-hop communities […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Anitpop Consortium, Daniel Carter, Daniel Carter & Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter Matthew Shipp: Dark Matrix, Dark Matrix, Duets, Duo, Free Jazz, Free-Improv, Jazz, Matthew Shipp, Matthew Shipp and Daniel Carter, Not Two Records, Piano, Saxophone, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Mat Maneri Quartet: Dust

Mat Maneri Quartet Dust Sunnyside Mat Maneri, son of saxophonist Joe, is a composer and violin/viola player. Under his own name he’s released some 30 albums in around about as many years and he’s been a sideman for a great range of avant-garde jazzers including several records with his old man and, I guess most […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Cloud Of Black Birds, Album Review, Avant-Garde, Cecil Taylor, Composer, Craig Taborn, David S. Ware, Dust, Free Jazz, Jazz, Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, John Hébert, Lucian Ban, Marilyn Crispell, Mat Maneri, Mat Maneri Quartet, Mat Maneri Quartet: Dust, Matthew Shipp, Quartet, Randy Peterson, Sunnyside, Viola, Violin, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

David S. Ware New Quartet: Théâtre Garonne, 2008

David S. Ware New Quartet Théâtre Garonne, 2008 Aum Fidelity David S. Ware lost his battle with kidney failure in 2012 – it was a blood infection that got him following on from his 2009 transplant. He played in pain and without many people knowing for the last two decades of his career. Including here […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2008, Albert Ayler, Album Review, Aum Fidelity, Bass, David S. Ware, David S. Ware New Quartet, David S. Ware New Quartet: Théâtre Garonne 2008, Drums, Free Jazz, Guitar, Jazz, Joe Morris, John Coltrane, Marc Ribot, Pat Metheny, Saxophone, Sonny Sharrock, Théâtre Garonne, Théâtre Garonne 2008, Warren Smith, William Parker, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April is The Cruellest Month 

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit April is The Cruellest Month Blank Forms Editions Japanese guitarist Masayuki “Jojo” Takayanagi (1932-1991) was a jazzer – playing cool jazz in the late 50s, a disciple of Lennie Tristano. He turned his back on the movement after hearing the late-60s classic, Free Form Guitar by Chicago Transit Authority. After that all Takayangi wanted to do was make noise. He formed […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, April is The Cruellest Month, Blank Forms, Blank Forms Edition, Free Jazz, Free-Noise, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Japan, Japanese, Kenji Mori, LP, Masayuki “Jojo” Takayangi, Masayuki Takayanagi, Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April is The Cruellest Month, New Direction Unit, Nobuyoshi Ino, Noise, Reissue, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor has died. The legendary pianist recently celebrated his 89th birthday. What a legend. What a legacy. He took what Art Tatum started and freed it. That’s a simple description – but it’s how I’ve always heard him. Taylor – along with Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane was one of the towering […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cecil Taylor, Eulogy, Free, Free Jazz, Jazz, Pianist, Piano, R.I.P., R.I.P. Cecil Taylor, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Jazz Right In Your Face: Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life

You know the drill by now – here’s the catch-all blurb/explanation I’ve created for these sorts of lists We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” I […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 10 Important Albums, 10 Important Jazz Albums, 10 Jazz, 10", 15 Great Hits By The Original Artists, A Love Supreme, Art Pepper, Big Swing Face, Buddy Rich, Buddy Rich Big Band, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Free Jazz, Jazz, Jazz Right In Your Face, Jazz Right In Your Face: Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Kind Of Blue, Louis Armstrong, Max Roach, Meets The Rhythm Section, Miles Davis, Money Jungle, Ornette Coleman, Portrait of Heath, Ten Important Albums, Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life, The Buddy Rich Big Band, The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions, Tutu, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Sunny Murray

Sunny Murray has died. He was 81. The American free-jazz drummer was born James Marcellus Arthur “Sunny” Murray. His influence on free-jazz drumming – on the very idea of liberating the rhythmic constraints, of exploring textures as a drummer/percussionist – is profound. Murray made records under his own name and with a variety of groups […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Drummer, Drums, Eulogy, Free Jazz, Jazz, Marcellus Arthur “Sunny” Murray, R.I.P., R.I.P. Sunny Murray, Spiritual Unity, Sunny Murray ·

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August 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey): Human Maybe EP

Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey) Human Maybe (ep) (Independent) Claus Højensgård (trumpet and keys) and Jeppe Skjold (saxophone) – from the extended line-up of the Danish collective, Hess Is More, breakaway here for a two-track ep featuring American free-jazz wunderkind Tyshawn Sorey.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Claus Højensgård, Danish, Denmark, Drums, EP, Free, Free Jazz, Human Maybe, Human Maybe (ep), Keys, Saxophone, Skjold/Højensgård Project, Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey), Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey): Human Maybe EP, Trumpet, Tyshawn Sorey ·

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June 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Wayne Shorter (June 8, Wgtn)

Wayne Shorter Opera House, Wellington Wednesday, June 8 Joining the legendary saxophonist were three virtuoso talents, the incredible Brian Blade (drums), the sublime John Patitucci (bass) and the thoughtful Danilo Perez (piano). This quartet has been performing together across the last few years as Shorter leaves his reputation as a composer to the side and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2016), Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, Dominion Post, Free Jazz, Gig Review: Wayne Shorter (June 8, Improvisation, Instrumental, Jazz, Jazz Festival, John Patitucci, June 8, Live Gig, Live Review, Review, Saxophone, Stuff.co.nz, Wayne Shorter, Wednesday, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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June 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman has died of cardiac arrest. He was 85. Only Charlie Parker and John Coltrane could have meant as much to the saxophone; Coleman set about learning all of the rules first. And then smashing them down, breaking through, tearing them apart. As a composer and improviser he was fearsome and he came to be […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Eulogy, Free Jazz, Ornette Coleman, R.I.P., R.I.P. Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz To Come ·
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