We’ve seen no shortage of smart attempts to bring jazz and poetry into dialogue, but Good Day For Cloud Fishing, the fine new album by clarinetist Ben Goldberg, ups the ante.
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – WBGO – Nate Chinen
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Good Day For Cloud Fishing – The New York Times – Giovanni Russonello
August 23, 2019To make “Good Day for Cloud Fishing,” his latest album, the clarinetist Ben Goldberg gathered up the guitarist Nels Cline and the trumpeter Ron Miles — two players with curious minds and patient hands, like his own — and showed …
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – The Wall Street Journal – Martin Johnson
August 19, 2019Many jazz musicians have integrated poetry into their music, but very few have taken their interest to the levels of clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg on his new recording, “Good Day for Cloud Fishing” (Pyroclastic), out Friday. Mr. Goldberg creates …
SuperBigmouth – Downbeat
August 15, 2019Chris Lightcap’s compositional and performative dexterity stretches back to the ’90s, when he began working with some of New York’s best-known avant-gardists. A few folks who were gigging and recording with the bassist back then again congregate for SuperBigmough, a …
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – Downbeat – Jon Ross
August 1, 2019The concept behind Ben Goldberg’s erudite Good Day For Cloud Fishing, an album of original tunes inspired by Dean Young’s poems, is best summed up by guitarist Nels Cline. The album, he writes in the liners, comprises “music inspired by …
Circulate Susanna – All About Jazz – Karl Ackerman
November 13, 2018Cory Smythe tells stories. About stories. Specifically, a father’s tales in the rural heartland of America; ingredients that a listener might assume had shaped Smythe’s imagination in ways that go far beyond music.
Circulate Susanna – The Free Jazz Collective – Stuart Broomer
November 9, 2018Pianist Cory Smythe is emerging as a significant pianist in free improvisation and new music circles. He has appeared on recordings such as Planktonic Finales with Stephan Crump and Ingrid Laubrock, as a member of Tyshawn Sorey’s trio and with …
Cory Smythe - Circulate Susanna – Pop Matters – Will Layman
October 15, 2018Cory Smythe’s Circulate Susanna is a mysterious meditation on rural America (and minstrel songs) as heard through the ears of a pianist with history in both new music and improvised music, featuring extended vocal technique and detuned guitar.
Cory Smythe - Circulate Susanna – Peter Margasak
October 8, 2018Although most contemporary music institutions continue to toe the line with improvisation practice–shutting it out for one reason or another, whether because it doesn’t fit established models or because the clueless can’t see the rigor and commitment it requires, often …
Cory Smythe - Circulate Susanna – Jazz Trail – Filipe Freitas
September 26, 2018Pianist Cory Smythe, an experimental visionary artist who has collaborated with Tyshawn Sorey, Ingrid Laubrock, and Peter Evans, releases his first album as a bandleader. For that purpose, he convenes the quirky guitarist Daniel Lippel, a bandmate in the International …