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Emanuele Cisi: No Eyes - Looking at Lester Young
by Angelo Leonardi
Questo ricercato omaggio di Emanuele Cisi a Lester Young è talmente ricco di riferimenti storici e rimandi letterari che una recensione rischia di trascurare l'elemento principale e caratterizzante: No Eyes è in primo luogo uno splendido percorso musicale, che affascina per partecipazione emotiva, essenzialità melodica e lirismo. Il progetto ha saputo entrare in ...
Stacey Kent: The Changing Lights
by Dan Bilawsky
Stacey Kent's voice operates at the intersection of knowingness and innocence. She delivers every song with finesse, balancing a sense of wide-eyed wonderment with soft-handed confidence. Perhaps that's why she's been able to build such an enormous fan base since starting her singing career and showing up on listener's radars near the turn of the century. ...
Stacey Kent: The Changing Lights
by Bruce Lindsay
Stacey Kent is a jazz success story--not just in terms of her talent, but also in terms of her international popularity, with her previous three albums clocking up a total of over 500,000 sales. What makes her so successful? The Changing Lights, her tenth album, demonstrates all of the qualities.There's the material, a mix ...
Nathan Haines: The Poet's Embrace
by Bruce Lindsay
The spiritual jazz path is not noted for being an easy option, but over the years it's proved to be one of the most rewarding choices, for both musician and listener. Much of the music on The Poet's Embrace suggests that tenor saxophonist Nathan Haines has traveled at least some way along that path in creating ...
Spirits Up Above: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology - The Atlantic Years 1965-1976
Label: Warner Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: Making Love After Hours; Roots; The Black And Crazy Blues; The Inflated Tear; Lovellevelliloqui; Lady's Blues; Volunteered Slavery; Spirits Up Above; A Tribute To John Coltrane: Lush Life / Afro-Blue / Bessie's Blues; Medley: Going Home / Sentimental Journey / In Monument / Lover; Something For Trane That Trane Could Have Said; Ain't No Sunshine; Blacknuss; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; Carney And Begard Place; Seasons (One Mind Winter / Summer / Ninth Ghost); Pedal Up; Anysha; Three For The Festival; Portrait Of Those Beautiful Ladies; Freaks For The Festival; Serenade To A Cuckoo;
Chris May's Best Releases of 2012
by Chris May
Christian ScottaTunde AdjuahConcord RecordsIn 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker's jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz's most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Spirits Up Above - The Atlantic Years 1965-1976
by Chris May
Rahsaan Roland KirkSpirits Up Above: The Atlantic Years 1965-1976Warner Jazz2012He was as funky as singer James Brown. With three horns in his mouth, he sounded like the entire JB reed section. And onstage, with a truckload of instruments around his neck, he was the hardest working man in ...
Astor Piazzolla and Manos Hadjidakis: L'Ultime Concert
by Chris May
Astor Piazzolla and Manos HadjidakisL'Ultime ConcertWarner Jazz2012Astor Piazzolla's international breakthrough albums, Tango: Zero Hour and The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night (Nonesuch, 1986 and 1991), were made with small groups, with which the bandoneonist and composer is still most commonly associated outside Argentina. But Piazzolla also wrote ...
Various Artists: The Leopard Lounge Box Set
by Chris May
Various ArtistsThe Leopard Lounge Box SetWarner Jazz2012If you enjoy the TV series Mad Men, you are going to love The Leopard Lounge Box Set. Probably.You need to go know what you are getting into. Should you be offended by the thought of guitarist Barney Kessel hanging ...
Nino Rota: Collector Nino Rota
by Chris May
Nino RotaCollector Nino RotaWarner Jazz2012Nino Rota was a composer who stretched the imagination, though he was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a jazz composer. Classically trained, at the Milan conservatoire and Rome's Santa Cecilia academy, Rota composed ten operas, five ballets and a great amount of ...
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