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Kristjan Randalu
Kristjan is a dazzling piano player" says Herbie Hancock after the 2006 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. The Estonian pianist and composer Kristjan Randalu started his music education at the age of 6 in Tallinn - both his parents being classical pianists. After the move to Germany Kristjan studied classical piano with Sontraud Speidel and Patrick O'Byrne in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart and jazz piano with Paul Schwarz in Stuttgart, additionally having lessons with John Taylor in Cologne. In 2001 he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Geoff Keezer (piano), Iain Ballamy, and Django Bates (composition)
Tora Collective
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tora; Enteka; Disoriented; Xehorismata; South by Southeast; Menexedes kai Zouboulia;
Hariklaki; Sibethera; Osmadakas; Milo Mou kai Mantarini.
Petros Klampanis: Tora Collective
by John Chacona
Some ideas work better on paper than on record. Take the attempts to fuse jazz and Greek popular music. There is, to be sure, a certain logic to the notion. Both traditions share an emphasis on virtuosic improvisation and a foundation in dance rhythms. Rebetika, the mournful songs of heartache, alienation and ...
Dave Sewelson, Simon Lucaciu Trio & Marc Ducret
by Maurice Hogue
Aside from a few more tracks from my 2022 favourites list, there are some very interesting new releases sampled this time out: baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson's The Gate, guitarist Marc Ducret tackling the compositions of Tim Berne, drummer Peter Bruun, free jazz trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and an adventurous young trio from Germany led by pianist Simon ...
Acadia: Way Of The Cairns
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Way of the Cairns;
Star Party;
Blueberry Mountain;
Seawall Sunrise;
Darkest Night;
Valse Hésitante;
Personal Beehives;
On the Precipice;
Ten Years Later.
SONG2
By Bodek Janke
Label: Dreyer Gaido
Released: 2020
Track listing: take on me (a-ha), minority (Shishani Vranckx), what is love (Haddaway), lost (Shishani Vranckx), make me out (Bodek
Janke), i fall in love too easily (Jule Styne), rhythm is a dancer (Snap), leidenschaft (Bodek Janke), lay in the sun
(Shishani Vranckx), dancing in the dark (Bruce Springsteen)
Patrick Cornelius: Acadia: Way Of The Cairns
by Chris May
No, this is not an ECM album, though, looking at the sleeve art, you would be excused from thinking it was trying to pass itself off as one. Half of the Acadia quartet is indeed European: Estonian-born, German-based pianist Kristjan Randalu and Luxembourg-born, US-based drummer Paul Wiltgen. The other half is American: alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius ...
Patrick Cornelius: From ECM to Acadia National Park
by Friedrich Kunzmann
With a persistently active live and equally dynamic release schedule in his back pocket, alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius continues to push the boundaries of the straight-ahead approach to jazz into a more modern context. Since his first recording as a leader--2006's self-released Lucid Dream featuring a cast of fellow Berklee College of Music Students from the ...
Jazzkaar 2020
by Martin Longley
Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia October 9-13, 2020 In this year of cancellations and postponements, the Jazzkaar festival opted to jump from April to October, successfully presenting a shorter version that nevertheless managed to include between four and six sets on most of its days. Giant-size American artists were unavoidably absent, but ...
Petros Klampanis: Irrationalities
by Angelo Leonardi
Giunto al quarto album, il bassista greco attivo tra Atene e New York, cambia organico confermando la personale cifra espressiva nel nuovo contesto. Fattosi apprezzare per le composizioni melodicamente suggestive, in sofisticate orchestrazioni con archi, Petros Klampanis presenta un trio tutto europeo, con il batterista polacco Bodek Janke e il pianista estone Kristjan Randalu. ...