Jazz Articles about Alex Sipiagin

About Alex Sipiagin

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Gabriel Vicéns recorded his first album Point in Time in 2012, when the guitarist was only 23 and which featured jazz bass legend Eddie Gomez. Days, his second album was recorded in his home town of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He currently teaches guitar at a collegiate level in the Music Department of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. Thanks to its tight ensemble,"El Teatro" sounds like a big band arrangement with initial solos from Alex Sipiagin on ...

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Gabriel Vicéns: Days

by Edward Blanco
October 6, 2015

Young Puerto Rican-born guitarist Gabriel Vicens unveils his second album as leader with the audacious Days documenting a nine-piece program of infectious modern jazz with a touch of the Latin flavor to make it interesting and quite appealing. A graduate from the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico, the twenty-seven-year old musician is currently professor at the Universidad Interamericana in San Juan and is widely recognized as one of the Island's up and coming rising jazz stars. Featured here are ...

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Gabriel Vicéns: Days

by Mark F. Turner
September 14, 2015

A rising jazz guitarist who graduated from Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico and currently serves as a Professor at Universidad Interamericana in San Juan, Gabriel Vicens's sophomore release Days exuberantly articulates the soundtrack of his life. This follow up to his 2012 self-produced Point in Time shows personal growth and expression with its contagious hooks and spacious compositions brought by a gifted ensemble that includes talented Puerto Rican musicians and notables saxophonist David Sanchez, trumpeter/co-producer Alex Sipiagin, and Carlos ...

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Alex Sipiagin: Balance 38-58

Read "Balance 38-58" reviewed by Andrew Luhn

by Andrew Luhn
March 9, 2015

Jazz fans who have followed trumpeter Alex Sipiagin's career thus far will have noticed that he likes to approach his original (and highly unique) music differently on each new album he presents. His 2013 release on the distinguished Criss Cross label, Overlooking Moments, presented his music in a stripped-down, chord-less quartet setting and focused on the dynamic interplay between Sipiagin, tenor-giant Chris Potter, and the formidable rhythm section of Scott Colley and Eric Harland. In contrast, his excellent 2011 sextet ...

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Alex Sipiagin: From Reality And Back

Read "From Reality And Back" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 10, 2013

From Reality And Back comes off as notable before a note of music ever reaches the ears. In fact, this album presents itself as a bit of a jazz PR dream: bassist Dave Holland makes a rare sideman appearance here, guitarist Pat Metheny contributed an original written strictly for this project ("Son, Uvedeny Posle"), and the rest of the band is rounded out by A-listers like pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, whose label--5passion--serves as the record's home. After hearing all of that, ...

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Jürgen Hagenlocher: Leap in the Dark

Read "Leap in the Dark" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 30, 2012

Il contenitore “mainstream" continua ad ampliarsi esponenzialmente grazie a produzioni e collaborazioni in ogni angolo del mondo, consentendo un confronto artistico attraverso uno stile che - pur se in parte codificato - lascia ampio spazio a creativitità, complessità e virtuosismo. In Leap in the Dark abbiamo modo di ascoltare il sassofonista tedesco Jürgen Hagenlocher insieme ad uno dei musicisti più interessanti degli ultimi anni, il trombettista russo, naturalizzato statunitense, Alex Sipiagin (autore di numerose incisioni, da leader per la casa ...

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Opus 5: Introducing Opus 5

Read "Introducing Opus 5" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 10, 2012

Collectively delivered jazz albums almost always fall into one of three categories: some are outings from neophytes looking to pool their resources, while trying to build a fan base from the ground floor up; others marry the musical skills of seasoned musicians who've crossed paths in various situations and/or share a commonality in approach; and the most commercially successful, yet artistically regretfully, are usually hastily conceived or rendered performances that simply attach several big names to a project in order ...