Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Fred Anderson

  Timeless: Live at the Velvet Lounge

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Fred Anderson has been a Chicago fixture since the ’60s, being in on the ground floor of seminal American music collective the AACM, perfor...

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  Coate Cooke Trio

  Up Down Down Up

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  The interesting thing about jazz is that some of its finer moments come as music that is almost impossible to reproduce as a result of the...

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  William Hooker and Lee Ranaldo

  The Celestial Answer

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  You know, when I check out a CD of improvised music and see that the tracks average in the 15-minute range, well, I get nervous. Even some...

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  Danielle Palardy Roger

  Bruiducoeur

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Choral music rarely gets let out of the box these days. One gets the odd recording of vocal work that has some interesting directions, but...

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  Zentralquartett

  11 Songs — Aus Teutschen Landen

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  We all know that the origins of American jazz came largely out of the root of blues. We also know that many cultures have contributed to th...

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  Hellhorn

  Very Beautiful

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  Hellhorn yet again answer the question of "what is jazz?” with "who gives a fuck?” Proudly recorded on an "ancient camcorder,” cloth drums...

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  Romano, Sclavis, Texier, Le Querrec

  African Flashback

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  This CD has a story woven into it that details the love and respect three musicians and a master photographer have for music, art and Mothe...

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  Marilyn Lerner

  Luminance

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Back in the ’60s and into the ’70s, there was a style of painting that came into popularity, called hyperrealism. True to its name, it port...