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Ester Andujar: Inner Songs
by Anastasia Bogomolets
Ester Andújar Rico's album Inner Songs is a mesmerizing journey through language, culture, and emotion. Andújar effortlessly transitions between Spanish, Valencian, Portuguese, and English, making each track feel like an intimate conversation across borders. Even if you are not fluent in all of the languages, the album provokes introspection on how language modifies the listener's perception of music. Andújar's vocals carry a subtle but powerful influence from Spanish vocal traditions, particularly in the way she infuses her phrasing ...
Continue ReadingJoe Sturges: Awareness
by Ian Patterson
Awareness is the debut EP of Joe Sturges, a Madrid-born, Anglo-Hispanic drummer and composer. Four tracks and seventeen minutes of music offer a brief but tantalizing glimpse into Sturges' compositional mind, one as influenced by classical romanticism and minimalism as it is by jazz. A quintet of players deployed in changing quartet and duo settings suggest a composer with the confidence to vary the tools at his disposable, resulting in tunes of individually distinctive character. Washing cymbals and ...
Continue ReadingJavier Vercher: Wish You Were Here
by Geannine Reid
Pushing the limits of jazz is where saxophonist Javier Vercher resides, creating in a world full of experimentalism and melodicism, but creativity and heartfelt music is the unifying thread. On Wish You Were Here (MUSIKOZ), customary jazz is given an overhaul, flirting with dissonant or uneasy textures. In other words, it actually tosses jazz back into the groundbreaking sonic landscapes that once enabled it to light the world on fire. Wish You Were Here is visionary work, one that stands ...
Continue ReadingJavier Vercher - Ferenc Nemeth: Imaginary Realm
by Geannine Reid
Imagination is the ability to form a picture in your mind of something that you have not seen, heard or experienced; the ability to think of new things. Saxophonist Javier Vercher and Drummer Ferenc Nemeth´s project Imaginary Realm can be summed up by this dictum, creating a realm between the two of them that is creative and full of new things. Saxophonist Javier Vercher was born in Madrid, but was raised in Valencia where he graduated from the ...
Continue ReadingJavier Vercher - Ferenc Nemeth: Imaginary Realm
by Vincenzo Roggero
L'immagine di copertina--un grattacielo senza identità con inquietanti ciminiere per sfondo--e quella interna--una figura accovacciata sulla sabbia che osserva un cane divertirsi sulla battigia--pur essendo accomunate dalla stessa tonalità di grigio esprimono un evidente contrasto prospettico e qualitativo. Qualità che si ritrova sicuramente in questa incisione, grazie alla sensibilità messa in mostra dal sassofonista Javier Vercher e dal percussionista Ferenc Nemeth, accompagnati in quattro brani dal pianista David Kikoski--ma che non sempre viene sorretta da una adeguata tensione narrativa.
Continue ReadingJavier Vercher: Wish You Were Here
by Enrique Turpin
Poco importa que Javier Vercher sea madrileño de nacimiento y valenciano de adopción. Defender un origen geográfico sólo tiene sentido si se está dispuesto a morir por él, y no creo que sea el caso del saxofonista, que bien pronto entendió que las fronteras que cabe preservar con la firmeza de las pasiones tienen que ver con las que se encuentran en el territorio de las ideas. Una de ellas le llevó a ampliar su formación en los dominios vernáculos ...
Continue ReadingJavier Vercher: Introducing The Javier Vercher Trio
by AAJ Staff
Javier Vercher is a young, prodigiously gifted Spanish saxophonist who first made an impact as a member of the Oscar Penas Quintet on the 2004 CD Astronautus. Now, on Introducing The Javier Vercher Trio (also on Fresh Sound New Talent), Vercher justifies the promise he showed earlier. With an audacious mixture of swinging post bop and powerful free playing, Vercher has created a debut of considerable impact.
On the opening track, Ornette Coleman's hip tune “Bird Food," Vercher ...
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