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Frank Carlberg/Gabriel Bolaños: Charity and Love
by Dan Bilawsky
While Frank Carlberg certainly rises to great heights in large-group settings, some of the pianist's most absorbing and thought-provoking work has been built around the intimacy of the duo. Whether we're talking about intrigue-laced meetings with fellow Finn (and drumming great) Klaus Suonsaari, a ballad set featuring tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger, some two-piano play with Ran Blake or a delightfully open dalliance with vocalist Christine Correa, the nature of pairings typically proves fruitful for Carlberg. Charity and Love, bringing him ...
Continue ReadingDaniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Night Devoid of Stars
by Jerome Wilson
Daniel Hersog is a Canadian trumpet player and composer, here presenting his first big band album, a set of sweeping and progressive orchestral jazz which reflects the current state of the world with shifting moods of unease and cautious optimism. Hersog has a expansive style of writing that draws as much from classical music as jazz. His compositions here are written to feature two main soloists, tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger and pianist Frank Carlberg, much as Gil Evans ...
Continue ReadingDaniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Night Devoid of Stars
by Jack Bowers
Daniel Hersog is the latest arrival in a long-running parade of world-class jazz composer-arrangers from Canada, albeit not in the image of Rob McConnell, Phil Nimmons or Rick Wilkins but more akin to some of his mentors including (but not limited to) John Hollenbeck, Ken Schaphorst and Dave Holland. Night Devoid of Stars (named for a premise by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), Hersog's debut recording as leader of his Jazz Orchestra, consists of half a dozen of his original ...
Continue ReadingFrank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Monk Dreams, Hallucinations And Nightmares
by Angelo Leonardi
Il “pianeta" Monk è stato talmente esplorato negli ultimi decenni che è difficile attendersi qualcosa d'originalmente significativo. Con quest'album orchestrale --la dimensione meno usata nelle revisitazioni del songbook monkiano -il pianista e compositore Frank Carlberg c'è però riuscito: anche se ogni brano s'ispira a un tema di Thelonious, l'elaborazione è personale e non deve stupire se Calberg se n'è assunto in pieno la paternità. Solo l'arrangiamento finale di “'Round Midnight," si mantiene aderente all'originale e ne conserva quindi il nome. ...
Continue ReadingTutti intorno al piano di Frank Carlberg
by Alberto Bazzurro
Finlandese di nascita e bostoniano d'adozione, il pianista e compositore Frank Carlberg, docente al New England Conservatory e al Berklee College of Music, influenzato da Paul Bley e Ran Blake così come da Jimmy Giuffre, ha collaborato nel tempo con Steve Lacy (ci torneremo), Bob Brookmeyer e Kenny Wheeler, ha scritto musica anche per organici di ampie dimensioni, diretto gruppi propri di proporzioni più ridotte. Nei due album di cui ci occupiamo oggi, usciti in simultanea a fine 2015 malgrado, ...
Continue ReadingFrank Carlberg: Uncivilized Ruminations
by Eyal Hareuveni
Pianist/composer Frank Carlberg continues to perfect his distinctive blend of poetry and left-of-center jazz. Carlberg does it together with a stellar cast of close collaborators; most important of them is vocalist Christine Correra, with whom he has been collaborating for two decades. Both have performed poetry by Wallace Stevens on Variations on a Summer Day (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2000); Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley, and others on In the Land of Art State of the Union (Fresh Sound New Talent, ...
Continue ReadingFrank Carlberg - John Hebert - Gerald Cleaver: Tivoli Trio
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tivoli Trio è un disco sull'infanzia e sulla giovinezza, sui ricordi, sul carnevale, sul circo, su quegli eventi facilmente impressionabili nella memoria di un ragazzino. Il ragazzino cresce e questi ricordi vengono affiancati dal fascino per il cinema e per alcuni registi, Fellini (che di circo se ne intende), Fassbinder, Hitchcock. Il ragazzino, Frank Carlberg da Helsinki, è ora uno straordinario pianista e Tivoli Trio è la visione musicale di queste suggestioni. Ma attenzione, in Tivoli Trio non c'è nulla ...
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