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Alchemy Sound Project: Under the Surface

Read "Under the Surface" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
July 9, 2026

Formazione dall'identità mutevole, Alchemy Sound Project era già stata autrice di eccellenti lavori, tra i quali Further Explorations, uscito una decina di anni fa. Questa sua ultima fatica presenta tutta musica della pianista Sumi Tonooka, eseguita da un settetto o, in due brani, dal trio pianistico che ne costituisce il cuore. Ed è il trio ad aprire il lavoro, con il brano non casualmente intitolato “Point of Departure," dove la pianista è affiancata dal contrabbassista Gregg ...

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Alchemy Sound Project: Afrika Love

Read "Afrika Love" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
August 10, 2021

The group Alchemy Sound Project is the result of five accomplished composers and bandleaders pooling their resources. The five are saxophonists Salim Washington and Erica Lindsay, trumpeter Samantha Boshnack, pianist Sumi Tonooka and bassist David Arend. Each one contributes a composition to this, their third release together. The result is a varied set of complex and restless modern jazz, arranged to showcase the playing talents of the group's members. Arend's “The Fountain" is a jangling group collage which ...

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Alchemy Sound Project: Afrika Love

Read "Afrika Love" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 17, 2021

Confirming the many advantages of a regular working ensemble, the Alchemy Sound Project came together in 2014 to provide an additional venue of exploration for several members of the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute in Los Angeles. Although the group possesses an affinity for fusing classical composition techniques with expansive improvisation, what stands out on Afrika Love, the collective's third release, is its undisguised love of the jazz tradition. With a three-horn core of trumpeter Samantha Boshnack and multi-instrumentalists ...

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Alchemy Sound Project: Further Explorations

Read "Further Explorations" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
May 3, 2017

Un settetto di ottimi musicisti provenienti dalle più diverse esperienze, per sviluppare cooperativamente un repertorio che unisca il jazz con la musica da camera: questo è l'Alchemy Sound Project, qui al debutto disccografico. In realtà la formazione originale è un quintetto, singolarmente -ed è una buona notizia -compsoto da tre donne e due uomini, con alle spalle collaborazioni importanti: la tenorista Erica Lindsay figura nella big band di Oliver Lake; la trombettista Samantha Boshnack dirige una variegata band ...

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Alchemy Sound Project: Further Explorations

Read "Further Explorations" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 23, 2016

The collective, Alchemy Sound Project, is a core quintet of composers and musicians whose compositions, on their debut album, Further Explorations cross over a foundation of chamber music with traditional jazz. The central players had united under the banner of the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute prior to this project. With diverse interests in global influences as well as backgrounds in a multitude of musical mediums, their challenge was to create jazz influenced by classical principles, a bit of a reverse ...