M – N – O – P

All artists filed by last name under M, N, O and P :

Pepe Medri & Timbuctu Orkestra | Fernando | El Gallo Rojo Records

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A good artistic fellowship needs lucky encounters and a balance of personalities that is often hard to reach. I can tell that Pepe Medri’s Timbuctù Orkestra has these features. The credit is to give to Pepe’s music, which comes from tango and folk music and trusts to the collective arrangement of an ensemble made from musicians coming from jazz and contemporary classical music. The balance produced, between folk roots and free-improvised areas, strictness and naïvety, is real magic. — Dimitri Sillato Continue reading →

Michael Marcus | Lenwood Turner | John Austria | Rashaan Carter | Clifford Barbaro | Darrell Green | Emannuel Harrold | Jay Rosen | Russell Carter | For Yes! | Not Two Records

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Michael Marcus – Bb clarinet | Lenwood Turner – trumpet | John Austria – Rhodes piano (#1,2,5,6,8,9) | Rashaan Carter – bass | Clifford Barbaro – drums (#8) | Darrell Green – drums (#5) | Emanuel Harrold – drums (#3) | Jay Rosen – drums (#2,4,6,7) | Russell Carter – drums (#1,9). All compositions by Michael Marcus – Marmisun Publ. – ASCAP. Recorded and edited in New York City in May-June-July 2010 at Soulsounds Studios. Mastered by Christian Ravaglioli at Molino Ballardini Studio, Italy. Produced by Michael Marcus and Rashaan Carter. Executive producer: Marek Winiarski for Not Two Records. Art design: Marmisun Productions. Special thanks to all the artists who participated in this unique and special musical communion…To Marek Winiarski of Not Two Records for continuing to believe in my visions…A special, special thanks to my friend Rashaan Carter for collaborating with me to make this art piece a reality. — Michael Marcus, July 2010 Continue reading →

Frank Gratkowski | Sebastian Gramss | Tatsuya Nakatani | oirTrio | Kanata | Not Two Records

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The OIRTRIO started furiously. Tatsuya Nakatami diligently moved along with the band steeping into scratching, beating and violonizing his instruments…where Gratkowksi is brash and experimental at every turn, the bassist, Gramss, is almost chameleon-like in his ability to mimic and build upon the lines Gratkowski is playing. He’s the ultimate support player here, as integral to the sound as any of the others, but sometimes almost disappearing until you listen carefully and realize that the horn line is being doubled, or tripled, by the bowing of the bass… Compelling, experimental, but also quite beautiful and even… poetic — MIB Bremen Continue reading →

Joe McPhee | Ingebrigt Haker Flaten | Blue Chicago Blues | Not Two Records

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In Blue Chicago Blues, recorded in 2007 the duo of tenor player Joe McPhee and bassist Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten balances out very well, in ethnicity, instrumentation, musical personality, and tonal character. McPhee is relaxed with the openness of his horn and Håker-Flaten, attentively diligent at emphasizing the tautness of his bass strings. “Requiem for An Empty Heart” sounds the blues-iest of all of the six tracks. But McPhee’s poetry on the back cover of the record jacket settles any question of how blues are anyway: “For this here ain’t nothin’ but the blues, nasty, low down, trifflin’ and sweet…” Dedicated to the late Chicago tenorman, Fred Anderson, the recording refers to blues-makers Oliver Nelson and Ornette Coleman and simple imaginations of the downtrodden or the mercurial female kind. — Lyn Horton, Jazz Times Continue reading →

Szilard Mezei Ensemble | BOT | Not Two Records

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If, as they say, the stick or rod is a part of the world-tree then this must be as true for the bow of the viola as it is for the flute, oboe, clarinet, tuba, or drumstick. Expert users of this bow are motivated by a quest for the path leading to the world-tree. As I imagine things, the person who draws his bow across his instrument knows that since they belong to the world-tree, sound and silence are not two separate things, but spring from the same stem. Because the root of these two things is one, silence cannot be the absence of sound, and sound is able to become music by virtue of the fact that it does not merely fill a space, but also creates that space. Accordingly, the person who having heard the silence stands centre-stage and calls forth sound with his bow creates and opens up a whole world. — Tibor Várszegi | Translated from the Hungarian by Chris Sullivan Continue reading →

Joe McPhee | Dominic Duval | Jay Rosen | Mikolaj Trzaska | Magic | Not Two Records

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As the 1990s drew to a close McPhee discovered two like-minded improvisers in bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jay Rosen. The trio premiered at the Vision Jazz Festival, but the concert went unnoticed by the press; McPhee, Duval and Rosen therefore decided that an apt title for the group would be Trio X. A number of Trio X recordings, have since been released on the CIMP and CADENCE JAZZ RECORDS labels, and the band has received favorable critical notice for these, as well as for its live concert and festival appearances. This is the first Trio X album on NotTwo, and it features a special guest – one of the leading European improv music masters — Mikolaj Trzaska. Continue reading →