Articles by Nate Dorward
Shot x Shot
Let Nature Square
PUBLISHED May 20, 2008
Phillys Shot x Shot quartet delivered a striking debut a couple years back with their self-titled disc for High Two. Recorded in a hugely...
The Convergence Quartet
Live in Oxford
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2008
Live in Oxford is the work of four young players: cornettist Taylor Ho Bynum, pianist Alex Hawkins, bassist Dom Lash and Torontos own Harr...
Bo's Art Trio
Jazz Is Free and So Are We!
PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2008
The droll pseudo-classical band name (a cheeky homage to the venerable Beaux Arts Trio) conceals a fiery swing-to-free jazz group from Holl...
Elliott Sharp and Charlotte Hug
pi:k
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008
Free improvisation began as an attempt to discard pre-existing genres and ended up as a genre itself. One of its fascinations though is the...
Trio M (Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Matt Wilson)
Big Picture
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008
The jazz piano trio is generally a discreet form, where a fluently beautiful surface is maintained even as the musics interior shines with...
William Parker / Raining on the Moon
Corn Meal Dance
PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007
Corn Meal Dance is the second album by Raining on the Moon, a project helmed by free jazz bassist William Parker that centres on the work o...
Graham Collier
Hoarded Dreams
PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007
Most albums with dream band line-ups turn out to be unsatisfactory affairs but Hoarded Dreams is an impressive exception. This previously u...
Barry Guy
Portrait
PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007
Avant-garde music can be hard work, even for the committed (or converted) listener, but there are certain artists with the knack for making...
