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Nicholas Brust: Frozen In Time
by Dan Bilawsky
Want to hear somebody who means business? Just listen to Nicholas Brust deftly drive through Frozen In Time's opener, Work Ahead." That initial offering on this, the alto saxophonist's full-length debut, explores the travails and triumphs of breaking into the jazz world in New York. Judging by the way Brust burns, flows and blows the doors wide open with his playing, it would seem that he is making significant inroads in that area. An Eastman and New ...
read moreNorthbound, Seamus Blake: Northbound
by Alberto Bazzurro
Due finlandesi e due statunitensi (uno d'adozione) compongono il quartetto protagonista di questo solido album di post-bop, muscolare ma senza eccessi, con infiltrazioni, a macchia di leopardo, di quanto avvenuto in seguito. Subito gli iniziali Counterparts" e Awakening" costituiscono in tal senso un eloquente biglietto da visita, che il successivo Forgotten" provvede ad ampliare in quanto a spettro espressivo, guadagnando spazi di libertà collettiva nei primi due brani raccolta entro strutture espositive maggiormente consolidate. Il breve Rumble" ...
read moreTuomo Uusitalo: Love Song
by Tyran Grillo
Pianist, composer, and educator Tuomo Uusitalo--born in Finland and, since 2012, a resident fixture of the New York City jazz scene--offers up something special in Love Song, his second album as leader. Special, not only because with it Uusitalo has rewritten his name into the ledger of modern jazz in flowing script, but also because he has come more maturely into his own as an improviser. For while we can still count on the virtuosity that distinguished his debut, here ...
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