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Emil Brandqvist Trio: Poems For Travellers
by Neil Duggan
With over 50 million streams across global digital platforms, the Emil Brandqvist Trio has established itself as one of the most compelling trios in Europe. The Scandinavian band's previous release, Layers of Life (Skip Records, 2023), demonstrated the trio's rising international appeal, securing the No. 2 position on the German jazz charts and setting the stage for their follow-up, Poems for Travellers. This is the trio's seventh album, and throughout their journey, the line-up has remained unchanged, occasionally ...
Continue ReadingWolfgang Schlüter Quartet & NDR Bigband: Visionen
by Dan Bilawsky
Visionen may be the best big band recording that went largely unheard in 2012. The music itself was hiding in plain sight, available for purchase from the usual on-line mega-stores (i.e. Amazon.com) and download sights (i.e. iTunes), but the record received scant attention in jazz circles, and the majority of the attention it did receive came from sources fairly close to home for this Hamburg-based project. Wolfgang Schlüter--Germany's elder statesman of the vibraphone--and his highly interactive band, ...
Continue ReadingKarin Hammr, Chris Jennings, Ingrid Jensen, Patrick Goraguer: Land
by Ian Patterson
Given the vast, wide-ranging collective experience of the four musicians, which runs the gamut from bop to big band, from South African jazz-fusion to pop, and from Brazilian music to more experimental fields, a more obviously eclectic recording wouldn't have been a surprise. Instead, the music on Land has a distinct, unified identity. Songwriting credits are shared between trombonist Karin Hammar and double bassist Chris Jennings, though there's a strong quartet sound, with trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and drummer/percussionist Patrick Goraguer ...
Continue ReadingDon Friedman: Live at JazzBaltica
by Andrey Henkin
This group featured on this album, yet another in the happy slew of recordings coming out from Don Friedman in the last few years, is billed as the Salzau Trio. What this means is that on the occasion of Friedman's invitation to the 14th Annual JazzBaltica Festival in Salzau, Germany, he convened a trio with regular bassist Martin Wind and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington for a first-time appearance. The result, a set from July 3, 2004, was recorded and released ...
Continue ReadingAlbert Mangelsdorff/Arild Andersen/Pierre Favre: Triplicity
by Andrey Henkin
A musical innovator's sound is unmistakable. For example, listen to any thick slap by Mingus and you know it's him. From the opening moments of Triplicity, there is no question that the trombone is Albert Mangelsdorff's. Mangelsdorff, Germany's most famous musician, participated in many performances under the auspices of the NordDeutscher Rundfunk (German Radio) either as part of its big band or at its many workshops, opportunities for European musicians and Americans either traveling or living abroad to ...
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