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Album Review

Harriet Tubman: Electrical Field of Love

Read "Electrical Field of Love" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi
July 1, 2026

La musica come colore acceso, come desiderio esplorativo per lasciarsi alle spalle impedimenti, regole fisse, clichè. Harriet Tubman, fin dal nome, è una sfida allo status quo, il ricordo di una militante abolizionista del XIX secolo passata alla storia come una tra le figure più influenti della cultura politica afroamericana. Harriet Tubman è un trio attivo dal 1998, che riunisce le personalità poliedriche di Brandon Ross--chitarre--, Melvin Gibbs--basso elettrico--e J.T. Lewis, batteria e percussioni. Nomi che ci riportano ...

Album Review

Alicia Hall Moran: Coldblooded

Read "Coldblooded" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
March 16, 2026

Take a heart and cast it into water. Lower the temperature. Watch the surface tighten until motion turns into sculpture. What remains are rings expanding outward, movements frozen into memories. These are the contours listeners encounter on Coldblooded, the third meta-statement from singer and composer Alicia Hall Moran. Sound travels across its surface as a skate blade tests structural integrity. History breathes beneath that ice, even as traumas wait behind winter's glaze. And so, the music begins its slow migration ...

Album Review

Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship

Read "Listen Ship" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
October 27, 2025

As in other recent works, on Listen Ship Henry Threadgill appears solely as composer and conductor. No surprise there: his works vividly showcase a quest for a personal compositional dimension, one that reflects his drive for authenticity while engaging in dialogue, proposing a possible intersection between Black American musical traditions and other musical realms. This is eloquently detailed in his 2023 autobiography, Easily Slip into Another World. A Life in Music, a gem in the realm of autobiographies, where he ...

Album Review

Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship

by Giuseppe Segala
October 13, 2025

Come in altri suoi lavori recenti, anche su Listen Ship Henry Threadgill compare unicamente in qualità di compositore e conduttore. Nessuna meraviglia: sappiamo che il musicista di Chicago è tra i grandi compositori della contemporaneità. È evidente e ricchissima, nelle sue opere, la ricerca di una dimensione compositiva personale, che ne rispecchi l'impulso di autenticità e nel contempo si metta in dialogo, proponga un incrocio possibile tra musiche di matrice neroamericana e altre aree musicali. Come è dettagliatamente narrato nella ...

Album Review

Brandon Ross Phantom Station: Off the End

Read "Off the End" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
November 4, 2024

"Navigando tra luce e oscurità, con Off the End, Brandon Ross Phantom Station offre una cerimonia che è allo stesso tempo aperta e strettamente focalizzata, rivelando uno spirito impavido slegato da vincoli stilistici." Le poche parole tratte dalla recensione pubblicata da “Jazz Trail" inquadrano perfettamente e in poche parole il sunto stilistico del nuovo lavoro discografico della straordinaria creatività del signor Ross, in Italia sicuramente e purtroppo poco conosciuto a parte forse l'avventura con il collettivo avant-rock Harriet Tubman accanto ...

Radio & Podcasts

Brandon Ross, Vinnie Sperrazza & Gordon Grdina

by Maurice Hogue
March 11, 2024

It's deep, it's different, it's unique and definitely original--the music of guitarist Brandon Ross & Phantom Station. Off The End is the feature album in this episode. Also new, drummer Vinnie Sperrazza & Apocryphal, the very creative guitar/oud player Gordon Grdina with two different albums, and a bunch of interesting music from Europe: saxophonist Signe Emmeluth Friends & Neighbors and the Scheen Jazzorkester with Cortex from Norway, Italian groups Looty Trio & Circles 44, Bulliphan} from Belgium, and Portugal's Old ...

Liner Notes

Butch Morris: Current Trends in Racism in Modern America

by Howard Mandel
June 29, 2023

When a full house of ardent downtown music followers flocked to the old Kitchen, a performance loft on Broome Street in Manhattan's artsy Soho district on the cold night of February 1, 1985 to hear Current Trends in Racism in Modern America by Lawrence Douglas “Butch" Morris--I don't recall if it was advertised as “Conduction No. 1"--no one knew what to expect. At that time, as now, Butch was an inspired and productive presence on a diversified music ...