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Dayna Stephens Trio: Liberty
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Saxophonist Dayna Stephens, bassist Ben Street and drummer Eric Harland, together with two handfuls of original compositions, make Liberty a hip and bopping success. Who needs chords, when three voices and tones are able to interact so seamlessly and easily with one another--carefully planting ideas, picking them up and elegantly developing them over the continuing stream of bars and measures? Stephens' round tone and clear melodic language are remarkably well accompanied in a set of tunes made up of catchy ...
Continue ReadingYelena Eckemoff Quartet: Leaving Everything Behind
by Neri Pollastri
Continua a mostrare gusto, classe e capacità di scegliersi i compagni di avventura l'eclettica pianista russo-americana Yelena Eckemoff, la quale dopo album con partner nordeuropei -Glass Songs, in trio, e Everblue, in quartetto -realizza adesso questo lavoro con musicisti statunitensi. Rispetto al precedente CD cambia drasticamente anche il primo strumento solista -là il sassofono di Tore Brunborg -qua il violino di Mark Feldman. Alla ritmica, per non far rimpiangere Arild Andersen e Jon Christensen, troviamo uno storico protagonista ...
Continue ReadingYelena Eckemoff Quartet: Leaving Everything Behind
by Mark Sullivan
Pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff has restlessly explored a new theme with each new album, with a shifting group of musicians. The central event behind the album title Leaving Everything Behind was her departure from the Soviet Union in 1991. She and her husband came to the United States to start a new life, having literally left everything behind--even their children, left indefinitely with Eckemoff's parents until the couple could get established. To explore this theme she returned to older original material, ...
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by Dave Wayne
With all of the worldwide hue and cry concerning immigration, precious little is said about the lives of immigrants themselves, the sacrifices they've made and the risks they've taken in order to start their lives anew; free of whatever hardships and oppression they endured in their native country. In the news, entire lives are boiled down to reports of another capsized boat in the Mediterranean, or another truckload of hopeful souls stopped at the border. Even those who immigrate legally ...
Continue ReadingLage Lund: Idlewild
by Andrew Luhn
Guitarist Lage Lund's previous two albums as a leader for the Criss Cross label utilized the quartet setting with Ben Street on bass, Bill Stewart on drums, and Aaron Parks on piano for 2013's Foolhardy and Edward Simon in the piano chair for 2009's Unlikely Stories. For 2015's release “Idlewild" Lund brings back his familiar rhythm section of Street and Stewart but omits the piano, opting for a guitar trio approach on twelve tunes, a mixture of originals and standards. ...
Continue ReadingSøren Kjærgaard - Ben Street - Andrew Cyrille: Femklang
by AAJ Italy Staff
Suoni che sembrano uscire da un lento contagocce, arpeggi interrotti, cluster e progressioni su singole note che vanno alternativamente dall'alto verso il basso e viceversa. Il danese Kjærgaard torna con un disco in cui la materia sonora è dilatata al massimo ed esilissima. È un lavoro che per la terza volta lo vede in trio con due jazzisti di prima grandezza come Cyrille e Street, i quali sembrano stabilire con lui una lunghezza d'onda perfetta. Il clima è sospeso, interrogativo ...
Continue ReadingDanilo Perez: Providencia
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con Providencia Danilo Perez pubblica un'opera ambiziosa, che incorpora sapientemente gli stilemi del jazz con la tradizione latinoamericana e perfino eurocolta. Lo testimonia l'allargamento del suo affiatatissimo trio ad una formazione variegata, comprendente strumenti della tradizione classica europea nell'intento di proporre una versione nuova e, tutto sommato, audace del canonico latin-jazz. Come era lecito attendersi, aleggia nel disco un vigoroso respiro ritmico latino-americano che aveva segnato la precedente produzione discografica di Perez. È certamente questo il filo conduttore di un ...
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