★★★★★
A very personal project for percussionist Bob Moses, Nishoma is a musical dedication to and remembrance of the drummer's mother, who died in 1997. Listening to it, one might very likely feel as though they've walked in on Moses' grieving. Family photographs fill out the CD booklet; laments and ballad tempos dominate the recording. In the liners, Moses even reprints a poem about his mother by Abbey Lincoln (who also closes the album with vocals on "How Deep Is the Ocean?")...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Track Listing: 1. Wholy Moses (Moses) - 4:122. The Worms Crawl in Blues (Coryell) - 6:583. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Harbach/Kern) - 6:514. Ntumba's Raindance (Moses) - 3:355. Rock Fantasy (Coryell/Moses) - 6:566. Nowhere (Gibbs) - 3:327. Slum Funk (Moses) - 4:348. Dancing Bears (Moses) - 4:06 Personnel: Larry Coryell - bass, guitar, vocals;Keith Jarrett - electric piano;Bob Moses - drums;Jim Pepper - tenor sax;Steve Swallow - electric and acoustic bass...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Drummer Bob Moses has been a ground-breaker in jazz for about thirty-five years. After gigging around New York as a vibraphonist in his teens, he formed the electric free-jazz group Free Spirits with guitarist Larry Coryell and Native American tenorist Jim Pepper...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
An exceedingly odd free jazz classic, Bittersuite in the Ozone was recorded in 1973 and reissued by the Brooklyn-based percussion label Amulet in 1999. It features some of the music's leading lights: bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Billy Hart, saxophonists David Liebman and Daniel Carter, trumpeters Randy Brecker and John D'earth, tuba virtuoso Howard Johnson, vocalist Jeanne Lee, and more...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The songs on Love Animal were recorded in 1967 and 1968 at New York's Apostolic Studios, the same time and place that the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention were creating groundbreaking works...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Bob Moses, formerly known as a tasteful and flexible drummer, really came into his own as a composer/arranger during his period with Gramavision. This ambitious effort has seven of his diverse and colorful originals...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Although best known as a flexible and tasteful drummer, Bob Moses displayed a great deal of talent as a composer and arranger on this exciting project...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28