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Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass

Read "Slipknots Through a Looking Glass" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 28, 2020

Eccola la nuova formazione del contrabbassista Eric Revis, un incontro di storici collaboratori che promette meraviglie. Al quartetto che licenziò nel 2014 In the Memory of Things Yet Seen si aggiunge la pianista Kris Davis già presente nel precedente City of Asylum e nel successivo Sing Me Some Cry (tutti per Clean Feed) e il cerchio si chiude. Il percorso di Revis parte da lontano, l'esperienza iniziale con Betty Carter, la lunga permanenza nel quartetto di Branford Marsalis, ...

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Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass

Read "Slipknots Through a Looking Glass" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
September 1, 2020

Bassist Eric Revis typically has so many ideas in play that it's virtually impossible for him to limit himself to one ensemble at a time. This is one of the reasons why he's used a variety of groups over the years to deliver his music. His trio with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Andrew Cyrille released City of Asylum (Clean Feed) in 2013, and then another iteration of the trio, Crowded Solitudes (Clean Feed) in 2016, with Gerald Cleaver taking ...

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Darius Jones, Mara Rosenbloom, Christian McBride, Tom Harrell & Leon Parker

by Martin Longley
July 15, 2016

The Darius Jones Quintet/The Mara Rosenbloom Trio Ibeam June 13, 2016 This appealing double bill made a Monday night visit to Ibeam a certainty, even if only for a select-sized audience. This musician-orientated room in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn is completely dedicated to the activity of performance, without a bar, or snack hatch, reminiscent of The Stone in Manhattan. The stage, or rather, the far floor-corner, is surrounded with acoustic baffles that add ...

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Darius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)

Read "Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
December 3, 2015

La Brigitte del titolo è Brigitte Fontaine, artista “totale" (cantante, poetessa e altro ancora) francese, oggi settantaseienne, che fra le tante esternazioni del suo talento nel 1970 registrò un album, Comme à la radio, con l'Art Ensemble of Chicago. A lei il trentasettenne altoista Darius Jones, nativo della Virginia, dedica questo suo nuovo lavoro, per il quale, non a caso, convoca un'altra cantattrice francese, Emilie Lesbros, e con lei (fra l'altro coautrice, testi--quasi ovunque in francese--e musiche, di tutto il ...

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Black Host: Life in the Sugar Candle Mines

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 28, 2013

Gerald Cleaver è tra i musicisti più versatili della scena odierna. Molto apprezzato dai colleghi, lo si può incontrare in contesti molto diversi, da quello di carattere libero ed esplorativo al più strutturato e perfino mainstream, e sempre la sua percussione si rivela adeguata, ricettiva, ricca di autorevole personalità. Sono così numerose le occasioni in cui si incontra la sua batteria, che potrebbero rappresentare una eloquente e ampia mappa del jazz contemporaneo, con ben poche lacune. Anche i suoi lavori ...

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Darius Jones Quartet: Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)

Read "Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
April 13, 2012

Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) is the third release from Darius Jones to document his impressive musical growth as a bandleader. Beyond his salient contributions to groups such as Little Women, Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys and Tanakh, Jones' 2009 AUM Fidelity debut, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing), established the young alto saxophonist as a force with which to be reckoned--a singular talent capable of holding his own in the company of acknowledged masters like ...

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Darius Jones Quartet: Book Of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)

Read "Book Of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 9, 2012

Saxophonist Darius Jones has rung the changes on each of his widely acclaimed leadership dates. Book Of Mae'bul subverts expectations again with an all new quartet drawn from NYC's finest, who shift between intricate script and flowing invention in the blink of an eye. Together they navigate eight of Jones' compositions, which tend towards order rather than entropy more than might be expected. For those looking for comparisons, drummer Mike Pride's From Bacteria To Boys' Betweenwhile (Aum Fidelity, 2010) which ...