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Radio & Podcasts

Aruan Ortiz, Satoko Fujii, and George Cables Plus New Music from Ludovica Burtone

by Hobart Taylor
March 23, 2025

Music from Pianists Aruan Ortiz, Satoko Fujii, and George Cables as well as new music from Branford Marsalis and Jeong Lim Yang.Playlist Aruan Ortiz “Like a Changui (Montuno)" from Serranius Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt) 0:00 Satoko Fujii “Aruku" from Dream a Dream (Libra) 6:00 George Cables" Journey to Agartha" from I Hear Echoes (HighNote) 16:37 Janel Leppin “Oh Johnny Dear" from Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March is to Love (Cuneiform) 23:50 Fred Hersch Rondi Charleston “ Fever ...

Album Review

Ivo Perelman / Aruán Ortiz / Ramón López: Ephemeral Shapes

Read "Ephemeral Shapes" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 3, 2024

For over three decades innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been a stalwart of the creative music scene. Each addition to his impressive, and uniformly superb, discography is a unique expression of spontaneity that bears his indelible stylistic mark. One of the reasons for Perelman's success is his uncanny ability to find like-minded collaborators. The introspective Ephemeral Shapes is no exception in all of the above. An eight-part improvised suite finds Perelman in the company of two equally ingenious musicians: the ...

Live Review

Spaceways 2024

by Giuseppe Segala
May 20, 2024

Spaceways 2024 Mart, Auditorium Melotti Rovereto 17-18.5.2024 La rassegna Spaceways, giunta quest'anno alla seconda edizione, viaggia su una proposta allargata, tra jazz, elettronica, pop sofisticato, sound art, danza, performance e dj set. Il jazz ha ricevuto ampio spazio in uno dei due fine settimana della programmazione, con scelte significative che attingono a tutto campo nella vasta ramificazione della scena contemporanea. Punto culminante in questo frangente è stato a nostro avviso il solo di ...

Album Review

Aruán Ortiz: Pastor's Paradox

Read "Pastor's Paradox" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 23, 2024

Eccellenti i brani solo strumentali, a tratti un po' verbosi, zavorrati (come accade spesso, del resto) quelli con l'aggiunta di Mtume Gant alla “dizione": si potrebbe sintetizzare così questo album del pianista cubano (ma da oltre vent'anni di stanza negli USA) Aruán Ortiz, ma sarebbe ovviamente eccessivamente semplicistico. Allora diciamo che anche gli episodi con voce aggiunta (tra i quali deve rientrare pure il conclusivo “No Justice, No Peace, Legacy!," dove lo slogan del titolo viene proferito ...

Album Review

Aruán Ortiz: Pastor's Paradox

Read "Pastor's Paradox" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
October 25, 2023

When clarinetist and saxophonist Don Byron and pianist Aruán Ortiz teamed up for the recording of Random Dances And (A)Tonalities (Intakt Records, 2018) they brought an unprecedented wealth of stylistic experiences to the studio. The result was an unconventional duo sound that blurred the distinctions between their collective comfort zones. Byron and Ortiz return on the gorgeous Pastor's Paradox, sounding joined at the hip and untethered, simultaneously. In this (mostly) quartet setting, Byron and Ortiz are joined by ...

Album Review

Ivo Perelman / Arun Ortiz / Lester St. Louis: Prophecy

Read "Prophecy" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 12, 2023

Movies run through our heads all the time and Prophecy, the latest excursion into the unruly unknown by tenor saxophonist and tireless creator Ivo Perelman and his two latest partners-in-crime, pianist Aruan Ortiz and cellist Lester St. Louis is just the soundtrack for them. Boisterous, disconcerting, consoling. Musically obtuse yet oddly accessible for the love scenes and elegies. Music restless for the reveal. Hypnotic themes for the terse encounters between lead characters or the silent parsing of the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Aruán Ortiz, Ferg Quill, Simon Lucaciu, Papanosh & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 28, 2023

Organ grooves, a take on the Jackson Five opened by the merciless beat of an Ornette Coleman alumnus, a few compelling debut albums, the ongoing collaboration between Aruán Ortiz and James Brandon Lewis, the return of Joshua Abrams' meditations for large ensemble and more make this week's playlist worth your attention... Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" Mondo Jazz Theme 0:00 Ari Joshua, Skerik feat. Delvon Lamarr, Grant Schroff ...