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31 Days Of Album Reviews #23: Dan Pratt Organ Quartet, “Toe The Line”
DAN PRATT ORGAN QUARTET Toe the Line (Posi-Tone) Tenor saxophonist Dan Pratt has been leading this group for close to a decade; its debut CD, Springloaded, was released in 2003. Toe the Line is the...
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William Parker Organ Quartet
Uncle Joe’s Spirit House (Centering Music; dist. through AUM Fidelity) by Phil Freeman For a guy who’s rightly regarded as basically a load-bearing column holding up much of the New York avant-jazz...
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Mike DiRubbo
Chronos (Posi-Tone) by Phil Freeman Buy from Amazon Alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo has been around the New York scene for a while, doing the straight-ahead hard-bop thing. He studied with Jackie McLean,...
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Albert Ayler
Love Cry/The Last Album (Impulse!) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman [Verve has recently reissued many Impulse! titles as twofers. Among them are discs by Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Elvin Jones,...
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Sam Rivers Playlist
Sam Rivers died December 26 of pneumonia; he was 88. Here’s a Spotify playlist of some of his notable performances. What you’ll hear: “Beatrice” (from Fuschia Swing Song, Blue Note 1965) “My Funny...
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Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia) by Phil Freeman Buy it English guitarist John McLaughlin first emerged into the public eye in 1969 and 1970, a period he spent mostly working with...
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A List Of 50 Jazz Albums
by Phil Freeman Apparently April 30 is International Jazz Day. So as a way of subverting the canon-building exercises that are sure to go on across the jazz internet today, I’ve come up with a list of...
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Jerome Sabbagh
Plugged In (Bee Jazz) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman French saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh has been fascinating me for a couple of years now. In November 2010, I reviewed I Will Follow You, a CD he did...
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Tony Williams Lifetime 1971
Here’s some terrific video, with augmented soundboard audio, of the Tony Williams Lifetime performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1971. This was the final version of the group’s first...
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Spectrum Road
Spectrum Road is a new group featuring guitarist Vernon Reid, keyboardist John Medeski, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana; their brief, basically, is to keep the music of the Tony...
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Dayna Stephens: Taking Chances
Saxophonist Dayna Stephens has been busy the last couple of years. His debut album as a leader, The Timeless Now, was released in 2007, and that—plus the usual slew of sideman appearances—was it for...
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Interview: Freddie Hendrix
Photo: Anastas Tarpanov Freddie Hendrix is a veteran trumpeter who’s making his debut as a leader 20 years after emerging onto the East Coast scene. Strongly influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Woody...
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BA Podcast 27: Zev Feldman
Episode 27 of the Burning Ambulance podcast—the first episode of Year Two of the show—is the first one not to feature an interview with a musician. Instead, I’m talking to Zev Feldman, who’s a...
View ArticleJoe Henderson 1963-1981, Part 1
Back in March, we published a five-day journey through pianist McCoy Tyner‘s 1970s output, most of it on the Milestone label. That series proved interesting and popular enough that we’re following it...
View ArticleJoe Henderson 1963-1981, Part 2
We’re back with the second day of our exploration of saxophonist Joe Henderson‘s catalog. (Click here for Part 1.) In 1967, Henderson left Blue Note after five years and five albums as a leader, and...
View ArticleJeff Cosgrove
Drummer Jeff Cosgrove isn’t that well known yet, but he’s built an impressive catalog of recordings over the last decade. His first album as a leader, 2011’s For the Love of Sarah, was a collection of...
View ArticleBA Podcast 63: Joe Chambers
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 63 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with drummer, pianist, and vibraphonist Joe Chambers....
View ArticleChaos Magick
In 2015, prolific composer John Zorn debuted Simulacrum, a trio featuring organist John Medeski, guitarist Matt Hollenberg, and drummer Kenny Grohowski. He did not play with the group, but he wrote...
View ArticleLotus @ 50
Look, sometimes you gotta just lay down a marker, so that’s what I’m gonna do. For about a half dozen years, from 1969 to 1974, Carlos Santana and his band made some of the most exciting,...
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