The Black - No Use in a Centre - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Possessed - (The CD) 2. Hunter Canyon Dawn 3. Pritchard Culvert Morning 4. Day Canyon Afternoon 5. Dragonfly Culvert Evening 6. Hunter Canyon Night 7. Possessed - (The DVD) 8. Possessed The Movie 9. The Making of Possessed 10.

Back in the 90s, producer Stefan Winter got to know and appreciate drummer Jim Black as a JMT sideman of Tim Berne and Uri Caine. 20 years ago, the young drummer fulfills his dream of releasing his first leader album on the tag that is also home to the recordings of Tim Berne, Uri Caine and Paul Motion. For the anniversary of WINTER & WINTER, Jim Black compiles his personal selection of the recordings of his group AlasNoAxis Music for open ears, for explorers of the unusual and unconventional. The musicians of AlasNoAxis combine jazz elements, new wave and grunge to create their very own sound. Stefan Hentz writes Inch... atmospheric songs in which the saxophone sings while bass, drums and Hilmar Jensson's peculiarly motionless guitar shred the familiar and pile up new energies with the fragility of dissolved harmonies, the power of their power chords or even with true feedback orgies.Inch Album Tracks 1. Z 2. Cahme 3. Maybe 4. Naluch 5. Let It Down 6. You Know Just Because 7. Super K's 8. Optical 9. Dogs of Great Indifference 10. Awkwarder

The Chicago Reader describes the Jim Black Trio with Thomas Morgan and Elias Stemeseder Inchone of the best bands in Jim Black's busy careerInch. In the HardStudios Winterthur the trio recorded this new album over two days. It is their fourth album as a trio and their second on Intakt Records. Drummer Jim Black has one of the most immediately recognizable styles in Jazz - his wonderful unhinged playing bears the mark of the rock backbeat, but he adds a clanking disruptive quality that forces his collaborators to sharpen their reflexes. InchThey find their own spaceInch, writes Kevin Whitehead in the liner notes. InchStemeseder is an original. It's not that he never backstops a right-hand melody with left-hand chords - he just does it less than most jazz pianists. He can feather the pedals or get stabby percussive, but never over-plays. The space he leaves around the piano's sound is an invitation he creates room. Like Stemeseder, Thomas Morgan has the confidence to do nothing where another accompanist might fill all the holes. His bass tone is ringing and clear, his attack has propulsive bite, and his lines sing. He provides a through-line when the other guys fracture.Inch Album Tracks 1. Astrono Said So 2. Tripped Overhue 3. Tighter Whined 4. Spooty and Snofer 5. Very Query 6. Focus on Tomorrow 7. Next Razor World 8. Neural Holiday 9. Dancy Clear Ends 10. What You Are Made from 11. This One and This Too