Articles by Glen Hall

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  Dan Trueman

  Machine Language

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  If you’re looking at the title of this CD thinking, "Is this a Lou Reed Machine Metal Music clone?” forget it. Machine Language is a collec...

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  NOJO/Sam Rivers

  City of Neighbourhoods

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Jazz is an aural art, passed down by one’s predecessors through heard performances and recordings. Musicians seek out their sonic forebears...

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  Trio Derome Guibeault Tanguay

  10 Compositions de Jean Derome

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  The long-standing trio of saxophonist Jean Derome, bassist Normand Guibeault and drummer Pierre Tanguay is one of Canada’s national treasur...

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  Warne Marsh

  All Music

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Saxophonist Warne Marsh is known as an improviser’s improviser. His ability to be entirely in the moment, his fearless pursuit of where a m...

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  John Stetch

  Exponentially Monk

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  It has become de rigueur for jazz musicians to pay tribute to pianist/composer Thelonius Monk. The results have ranged from equivocal to qu...

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  Cooper-Moore/Tom Abbs/Chad Taylor

  Triptych Myth

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Cooper-Moore, a creative force on the NYC free jazz scene, having played with many of the scene’s major voices including heavies like David...

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  Guido Del Fabbro

  Carré de Sable

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Youthful Montreal composer/improviser Guido Del Fabbro wilfully and playfully — the CD’s title means "sandbox” — flouts the music industry’...

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  Noma

  Diversion

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Canada’s pre-eminent free jazz group NOMA hits a home run with Diversion. Tom Walsh has absorbed Ornette Coleman’s Harmolodic concept, synt...