Articles by Glen Hall
Traum
Tanto Impresos Com Sistemas
PUBLISHED May 12, 2009
Maybe it's the ions in the Chinook winds that blow over Calgary from time to time. Maybe it's something in the Bow River water. Whatever it...
Davis / Ulrich / Baumann / Lutek / Richards / Jefferson
Urs Blöchlinger Tribute
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009
The jazz world is awash with tribute concerts/recordings, and that's why it's extraordinary that this one stands out. First, unlike the hor...
See Through Trio
Lines and Spaces
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009
The musical dimensions first opened up by the Jimmy Guiffre 3 in the early '60s have more or less languished until now. The See Through Tri...
Eric St-Laurent
Dimensions d'Instanbul
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009
This recording is not what it might seem at first glance, which is a reverential homage to Turkish music. Instead, by girding the devilishl...
Okkyung Lee / Peter Evans / Steve Beresford
Check for Monsters
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2009
Cellist Okkyung Lee, trumpeter Peter Evans and British pianist Steve Beresford give amusing answers to a questionnaire that provides the li...
Muwei
4 Tracks Vol.1
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2009
Brazilian quintet Muwei have created a fascinating mash-up of free improv, sample-based recombinative appropriation (these guys appropriate...
Norbert Stein
Direct Speech
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2009
It's amazing to hear how a creative musician can re-imagine another musician's music and make it their own. Such seems to be the case with...
Leo Alves Vieira
Chamber Works
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2009
Brazilian composer/video artist Leo Alves Vieira has the kind of imagination that invests everyday materials with a magical hyper-reality....