Fred Anderson & Dkv Trio

Fred Anderson. Harrison Bankhead. Hamid Drake. For those in the know, that's practically a guarantee of a good performance and Timeless: Live at the Velvet Lounge doesn't disappoint. It captures the 75-year-old saxophone titan with his working trio, live on his home turf at Chicago's (and Anderson's) Velvet Lounge. Fred Anderson is a supremely melodic and patient improviser who is never short on ideas but is never in a rush to get them out. Combine that with an amazingly gifted and responsive rhythm section and you get pieces that are so inherently tuneful you might be surprised they're free improvisations. The whole performance is practically a non-stop series of highlights, although the title track alone might be worth the price of admission. The interplay between these players is simply amazing; improvised music doesn't get much better than this.

The Velvet Lounge was a door that Fred Anderson opened continuously for decades, an access point through which the human soul could enter and explore the organization and chaos of the cosmos. Through this door the spirits outside also came into our little system. When the exchanges happened, it made a sound of joy, like el: those of us who weren't there are lucky that recording devices were. It's a generation removed and still we can feel their presence from the record.

DKV trio's concert in the course of 2012 Autumn Jazz Festival was a night to remember for many reasons. The trio played up to the promise and delivered. The concert itself, a result of a decade - long logistical struggle to bring together the three at one place and time, was also the release date campaign to a 7cds boxset called "Past Present" that would gather a several of the famed DKV performances done near the end / beginning of each year in Chicago and Milwaukee.

As the debut recording of an ensemble rooted in deep and abiding friendships The Daily Biological is a creatively roiling conversation. The unusual trio of drums (Chad Taylor), saxophone (Brian Settles) and piano (Neil Podgurski) creates tough and engaging music that unfurls in kinetic conversational bursts.

The DKV Thing Trio - Collider (2016) {Not Two Records MW930-2}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Improvised Music

Collider solders together The Thing, the drummer’s punk-jazz trio with Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten with its U.S. counterpoint, the DKV trio of reedist Ken Vandermark, bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Hamid Drake. Like a recurring guest star on a sit-com, Vandermark is a frequent Nilssen-Love collaborator. More notably Collider is an opportunity to compare the styles of the Norwegian and Drake, his American doppelganger, who seems to be behind every drum kit that Nilssen-Love isn’t.

Winner of the 2016 Prix Django Reinhardt from the Académie du Jazz and nominated for the Victoires de la Musique Jazz award in 2018, the pianist Fred Nardin, who plays with, among others, the Amazing Keystone Big Band and Cécile McLorin Salvant, is one of the great revelations of French Jazz in recent years. The trio’s new album, released in March 2019 on the label Naïve, with Or Bareket and Leon Parker, is proof that high-quality jazz can reach a wide audience, from simple amateurs to the most expert connoisseurs.

Pianist Fred Hersch paid some dues at the Village Vanguard, sitting in as a sideman there from 1979 on, playing with the bands of saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Art Farmer, alto sax man Lee Konitz, and bassist Ron Carter. But he waited until 1997 to make his debut as a leader. That debut was captured on tape, and surfaces now, years later, with the Fred Hersch Trio '97's @ The Village Vanguard.