Jazz Articles about Alex Sipiagin

About Alex Sipiagin

Album Review

In occasione dell'ottantesimo compleanno di Dave Holland, la Edition Records pubblica Freedom Call, un cofanetto di sei LP, tre CD e in streaming, che riunisce inediti live di tre formazioni fondamentali della sua carriera: il sestetto con Mulgrew Miller, Alex Sipiagin, Antonio Hart, Robin Eubanks ed Eric Harland, la formazione che aveva inciso Pass It On; il quintetto con Chris Potter, Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson e, nella configurazione qui documentata, Nate Smith; e il quartetto Prism, con Craig Taborn, Kevin ...

Radio & Podcasts

Alex Sipiagin, Vladimir Kostadinovic, Lauren Henderson, Ark Ovrutski and more

by Benjamin Boddie
August 14, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Alex Sipiagin, Steve Allee, Vladimir Kostadinovic, Lauren Henderson, Ark Ovrutski, Kevin Brunkhorst, Markus Rutz, Mark Winkler, Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli, Gregory Tardy, Greg Murphy, Jimmy Greene, Juanjo Lopez, Tyreek McDole, Ron Rieder, Ryan Keberle, Art Hirahara, Carrie Jackson, Michael Dease, Saul Dautch, Cory Weeds & Jerry Weldon, Alan Broadbent, Noah Haidu, Allan Harris, Nicole Glover, Etienne Charles, and more. Playlist Alex Sipiagin “Upper Manhattan Medical Group" from Reverberations (Criss Cross) 00:00 ...

Album Review

Art Hirahara: Peace Unknown

Read "Peace Unknown" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
July 18, 2025

Art Hirahara is one of the most in-demand pianists in contemporary jazz, appearing on countless recordings while steadily building an impressive solo career. WithPeace Unknown, he continues his prolific partnership with Posi-Tone Records, with a deeply personal and expansive set that brings new life to earlier compositions while introducing bold new material. Framed within a robust four-horn ensemble, the album stands as both a reflection on the past and a forward-looking artistic statement, elegantly merging lyrical expressiveness with structural daring. ...

Album Review

Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust

Read "In Jazz We Trust" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
March 14, 2025

The Posi-Tone Records label, founded and run by producer Marc Free and engineer Nick O'Toole, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025. Given the many upheavals in the music business since 1995--the rise of file sharing, the introduction of iTunes, iPod, and iPhone, the decline of the compact disc concomitant with the rise of streaming services, the shrinking influence of major labels with the rise of self-released music, and the recent rediscovery of vinyl--the label is justly proud not only to ...

Album Review

Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust

Read "In Jazz We Trust" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 4, 2025

In the mid-'90s, when Posi-Tone released its first album, the recording industry landscape was completely different than it is today. Small independent labels were not the norm, every artist did not have their own imprint and Napster had yet to arrive to kick off the access revolution. It was, quite simply, a different world--one where label co-founder Marc Free was poised and able to transform a dream into reality by shining a light on established players deserving a closer look ...

Album Review

Misha Tsiganov: Painter Of Dreams

Read "Painter Of Dreams" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
August 21, 2024

A mainstay musician in the vibrant and exciting jazz scene of New York City, Russian-born pianist Misha Tsiganov presents his fifth Criss Cross album, Painter of Dreams, which features six original compositions and two familiar reimagined standards, with every piece but one running from between eight to eleven-minutes in length. The pianist expands his musical boundaries, implements new elements, augments the horn section and, with regard to his own playing, states that he was moved to include an “entirely acoustic ...

Album Review

Misha Tsiganov: Painter Of Dreams

Read "Painter Of Dreams" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
July 14, 2024

Like a fine wine, Russian-born and New York-based pianist Misha Tsiganov, seems to improve with age. His music continues to evolve and his creativity hits a high spot with Painter Of Dreams. He has appeared on countless albums over the years and has played with such musicians as Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Michael Brecker. His ability to shift tempos and mix meters in his compositions has always been notable. Recent work with the Romanian Radio Big Band has also ...