Jazz Articles about David Mott

About David Mott

Album Review

Michael Vlatkovich 5 Winds: Five of Us

Read "Five of Us" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 24, 2020

Ensemble (nello specifico quintetto) di soli fiati (non solo ance ma anche ottoni), come una volta era praticamente inaudito, dopo di che ci si sono misurati in diversi, e in tempi recenti quasi più nessuno: questa è la formazione a cui si rivolge il vulcanico trombonista losangelino Michael Vlatkovich per questo suo nuovo lavoro, peraltro inciso (a Toronto) nell'abbastanza lontano 2015. Vi trova posto una musica curata, parecchio scritta ma non per questo priva di singoli apporti in grado di ...

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David Mott: Dragonhorn

Read "Dragonhorn" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 22, 2011

Baritone saxophonist David Mott has turned out the finest solo sax recording since Anthony Braxton's Wesleyan 12 Altosolos (Hat Hut Records 1992). That is not to suggest that Mott's Dragonhorn is similar to Braxton's particular style. Mott's ten compositions are not given to episodic jumps, vibrations or anything remotely antiseptic. Rather, they are packed with emotion, atmosphere and with a sound as rich and full as a group formation and achieved without aberrant enhancements. “Continuum" begins the collection ...