Drummer Jim Black, probably the most in-demand collaborator-sideman of the Downtown New York improvised music scene, brings rubbery, hypnotic compositional smarts to the stage on Alasnoaxis. Saxophonist Chris Speed--with whom Black cofounded Human Feel in the early 1990s--shoots long and shapely tones through Black's more clattering tunes and his spacey, gauzy material with the same sense of how to make the music emotionally dynamic. Electric bassist Skuli Sverrisson nimbly dances when things are raw and loud, as does guitarist Hilmar Jensson. Black again makes clear why he ranks with Han Bennink as one of jazz's foremost full-kit, crashing and thrashing players. Like Bennink, he creates echoes and nuances out of drum thwacks and cymbal smacks that lend the overall music tremendous passion. --Andrew Bartlett
AlasNoAxis,Jim Black,Winter & Winter,Avant-Garde Jazz,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop,Post-Rock/Experimental
Jazz Music:
- All the Gin Is Gone
- Backtracks
- Basie's Beat [Import] [Original recording remastered]
- Bebopbebopbebopbebop
- Bird Lives!
- Carol Kidd : Debut
- Come Away With Me: Norah Jones on Saxophone [Import]
- Complete Birth of the Cool [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Complete Verve Latin Sides [Import]
- Concert by the Sea [Live]
Jazz Music
Magnigicat, BWV 243a / Cantata No. 10
Music: The Masquerade Is Over [Import]
Christian Music: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Funk [Import]
Iron Men [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Integrale Django Reinhardt, Vol. 8: 1938-1939