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Gerald Cleaver & Vioilet Hour: Live at Firehouse 12

Read "Live at Firehouse 12" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Gerald Cleaver incarna brillantemente la versione versatile del jazzista contemporaneo. Batterista e compositore, origini a Detroit, Cleaver giostra con fierezza e senso funambolico all'interno di tutti gli stili dominanti nella scena odierna. Può contribuire alla raffinatezza di gruppi accasati alla ECM, navigare a vista in organici del tutto sperimentali ("Farmers by Nature," “Black Host"), mantenere legami di lunga data con autori affini o inaugurarne di inediti come quello con Larry Ochs (il duo “Songs in the Wild Cave" ...

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Album Review

Matt Wilson Quartet: Hug!

Read "Hug!" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Drummer Matt Wilson's quartet opens Hug! with Gene Ammons' “The One Before This." Saxophonist Ammons often used the tune as a showcase for tenor battles with fellow sax man Sonny Stitt. Wilson and company--featuring cornetist Kirk Knuffke, sax man Jeff Lederer and bassist Chris Lightcap--lay the sound down like a party. And this quartet parties hard. It feels like a rough-and-tumble affair, going down around midnight, when the alcohol has settled in, and the half hammered dancers are stumbling around ...

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Album Review

Chris Lightcap: Superette

Read "Superette" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi

by Claudio Bonomi

Chris Lightcap, contrabassista e bassista di lungo corso con collaborazioni che spaziano da Marc Ribot a Cecil Taylor, passando per Anthony Braxton, Regina Carter e molti altri (ha all'attivo oltre una settantina di incisioni) si rigetta nella mischia con i neonati Superette, band che allinea due chitarristi elettrici, Jonathan Goldberger e Curtis Hasselbring, il batterista Dan Rieser e due super ospiti: il “magnifico" John Medeski all'Hammond B3 e all'organo Wuriltzer e {Nels Cline}}, già chitarrista dei Wilco. ...

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Multiple Reviews

Nouveau Fusion: Superette And Visitors

Read "Nouveau Fusion: Superette And Visitors" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Bereft of forced funk and over-complicated compositions, jazz-rock fusion can be as liberating as the best rock and roll. That is, if the technical expertise brought to bear is restrained and sublimated to the unity of the ensemble and the musicians involved play with the unity of a true band. Then the emotional expression usually contained in song lyrics permeates the musicianship. Witness the work of Chris Lightcap and company as well as Jonathan Goldberger, JP Schlegelmilch, Jim Black: maintaining ...

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Live Review

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth a Padova

Read "Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth a Padova" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Cinema Torresino Padova 26.03.2017 Nella pregevole programmazione del Centro d'Arte studentesco di Padova, l'appuntamento con il quintetto Bigmouth di Chris Lightcap rappresentava l'occasione ghiotta di ascoltare un concerto in esclusiva per l'Italia, in cui alla notevole caratura dei singoli componenti si univa la bella compattezza di un gruppo tra i più significativi della scena contemporanea. Il pubblico che stipava la sala ha saggiamente colto tale occasione e i due bis hanno dato la misura ...

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Album Review

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter

Read "Epicenter" reviewed by Luca Canini

by Luca Canini

Ha ancora senso parlare di mainstream? Esiste un jazz che guarda al futuro riuscendo allo stesso tempo ad essere immediatamente riconoscibile e masticabile anche da chi di jazz poco, o niente, ne capisce? Domande oziose soltanto all'apparenza. Che nel loro studiato candore squarciano il velo di una dicotomia che a uno sguardo distratto può apparire insanabile: il consumo reazionario da una parte, con le sue formule fossilizzate e l'insopportabile tendenza a escludere, i musicisti di ricerca dall'altra, destinati a vagare ...

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Album Review

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter

Read "Epicenter" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

Conceived as a continuous seven-part extended work for his band, Bigmouth, the first seven tracks on Chris Lightcap's Epicenter are as remarkable for their diversity as they are for the ways in which they're tied together. The unifying theme here is “New York: Lost and Found," and the music could indeed work as a sort of conceptual portrait of the city's colorful population and little-known, out-of-the-way nooks and crannies. Lightcap's band, now well into its second decade ...

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