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Interview: Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell‘s discography, as producer and bassist, label head and general eye-of-the-storm, is vast and can be intimidating. Not all of it’s brilliant. His central concept of collision—taking...
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Flow Trio
Set Theory: Live at the Stone (Ayler) by Phil Freeman Buy from Ayler This is the third release by Flow Trio—they’ve got one previous live disc on Ayler, and a studio album, Rejuvenation, on ESP-Disk,...
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Endangered Blood
Endangered Blood (Skirl) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon This album looks like it should belong to that overhyped and frequently underwhelming sub-sub-genre, “punk jazz.” But it doesn’t…not 100%,...
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Interview: Matana Roberts
By Phil Freeman Matana Roberts is a young (younger than me, anyway) alto saxophonist very much worth your attention. Born in Chicago, she’s been mostly New York-based for several years now, and has...
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Naked City Live 1992
It was 20 years ago the other week… Really, the title says it all. Here’s a complete concert—2 1/2 hours of music in all—by John Zorn‘s group Naked City, with Wayne Horvitz on keyboards, Bill Frisell...
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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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Darius Jones Quartet
Book of Mae’bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) (AUM Fidelity) Buy it from the label by Phil Freeman Alto saxophonist Darius Jones (who I profiled in Burning Ambulance #2) has performed with different...
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John Zorn
Templars in Sacred Blood (Tzadik) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon This is the sixth album by saxophonist and composer John Zorn‘s Moonchild ensemble. The group began its life as a trio—vocalist Mike...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! 20-11
We’re heading into the home stretch with our countdown of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! Here are #s 20-11, followed by a bonus list: Rudresh Mahanthappa picks his 5 favorite saxophonists! 20....
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Nick Millevoi
In White Sky (Flenser Records) Free download from Bandcamp by MacDara Conroy Philadelphia-based guitarist Nick Millevoi is normally one third of punk/metal/jazz hybrid unit Many Arms, whose second CD...
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A Taxonomy Of Extreme Metal Vocals
Since its inception in the 1970s, metal has been a proving ground for vocalists. First there were the operatic screams of genre pioneers like Ronnie James Dio (of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and a lengthy...
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Hush Point
by Phil Freeman Hush Point is a new quartet featuring trumpeter John McNeil, saxophonist Jeremy Udden, bassist Aryeh Kobrinsky and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza. Their self-titled debut album came out last...
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Mike Pride
Photo: Eliseo Cardona Drummer Mike Pride has two new CDs out. This is not a surprise; he’s highly prolific, and has released two other albums this year already—The Exterminating Angel, a set of duos...
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Dead Neanderthals: This Story’s Not Ending Badly Just Yet
It’s been a productive year for Dutch saxophone-drums duo Dead Neanderthals, coming off the March release of their fourth album Polaris on Utech Records, and the recent limited-edition self-released...
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Moonchild At Moers
Happy Halloween! Here’s video of John Zorn‘s Moonchild performing Templars in Sacred Blood in its entirety at this year’s Moers Festival, back in May. (I reviewed the album last June.) The band...
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Burning Ambulance 7: Out Now
Burning Ambulance #7 is available now. The print edition (102 pages, perfect bound, color cover, black and white interior) is $10; the ebook (readable on any e-reader) is $5; the Amazon Kindle version...
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The Metal Side Of Joe Morris
Slobber Pup: L-R Joe Morris, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi, Jamie Saft New England-based guitarist Joe Morris is best known for playing fleet, clean lines that combine bebop speed and precision with free...
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Mimi Jones, Camille Thurman & Shirazette Tinnin: The Women Of Hot Tone Music
L-R: Camille Thurman, Mimi Jones, Shirazette Tinnin Artist-run labels have a long history in jazz. They’re frequently a vehicle for artists to release their own work: Charles Mingus and Max Roach...
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Twilight Of Yr Idols: Thurston Moore Goes Black Metal, Kinda
Over the course of three albums, USBM supergroup Twilight has journeyed from kult purists to explorers of the fringe parameters of the genre. Set to release III: Beneath Tridents Tomb on March 18, the...
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Nick Millevoi
Nick Millevoi‘s been a busy man since his last appearance on the pages of Burning Ambulance, what with his European tour last autumn with Dutch sax/drum noisemongers Dead Neanderthals (another...
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