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Pablo Held Trio: Recondita Armonia
by Phillip Woolever
This solid release furthers the evidence that Held's trio (with bassist Robert Landfermann and percussionist Jonas Burgwinkel) continues to set lofty goals, and proves again the group is quite capable of splendid results. After achieving success with a project like their collaboration with John Scofield, some performers might have taken a pause simply to collect the accolades or follow up with a similar, market-proven formula. Demonstrating once again they are indeed unique, the musicians took more ...
read moreJim Wellman: Dawn to Dusk
by Paul Naser
Jim Wellman, multi-instrumentalist and co-founding member of acid jazz outfit the Brand New Heavies, was all but done working in music when the idea for his latest release, Dawn to Dusk, gripped him and wouldn't let him go. According to him, after witnessing certain world events, in particular events in Ukraine, he “felt he had to do something to express his dissent." What he ended up with is a very accessible, genre crossing album that, in his words, “is social ...
read moreFree Jazz Group Wiesbaden: Frictions / Frictions Now
by John Sharpe
History is written by the victors. That holds as true for art as for war. When looking for pioneers from the formative days of free jazz in Germany, the names of reedmen Peter Brötzmann and Gunter Hampel, trumpeter Manfred Schoof and pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach are likely to spring to mind. But now the Lithuanian No Business imprint, acclaimed for excavations in the music's more obscure American strata, turns its attention to some of the forgotten facets of the European ...
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