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Leo Genovese, Josephine Davies, Antonio Faraò, Brian Landrus & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 10, 2024

The prolific Argentinean pianist Leo Genovese, and various tributes to Shetland, but also to masters including McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington and Bud Powell) are at the heart of this playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Josephine Davies “Up Helly Aa" Satori: Weatherwards (Whirlwind) 0:16 Host talks 2:44 Antonio Faraò feat. John Patitucci, Jeff Ballard “Mt" Tributes (Criss Cross Jazz) 4:14 Host talks 8:40 Geoffrey Keezer Trio ...

Album Review

Julieta Eugenio: Stay

by Angelo Leonardi
October 4, 2024

Dopo la cilena Melissa Aldana, s'impone a New York un'altra giovane sassofonista sudamericana, l'argentina Julieta Eugenio, di un anno e qualche mese più giovane. Come già fece Melissa nel 2010 con l'album Free Fall anche Julieta ha debuttato con un pianoless trio (Jump, Greenleaf 2022), organico che ora ripropone con gli stessi partner, il contrabbassista Matt Dwonszyk e il batterista Jonathan Barber. In due brani dell'album, Leo Genovese si aggiunge al Fender Rhodes. Gli ...

Album Review

Leo Genovese: Forward

Read "Forward" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
August 25, 2024

Even after who-knows-how-many-years and who-knows-how-many-piano players, it is still outright amazing how each player approaches his/her instrument. Each has their own history, memory and/or love affair that somehow needs telling. Recorded in 2024 at the New York Forward Festival in Brooklyn, Grammy winning ("Best Improvised Jazz Solo," 2023) pianist Leo Genovese--his passions on his sleeve--takes his bench. He begins as many do: on a dreamy hunt and peck. A note here, a note there, looking for the elusive ...

Album Review

Milton Nascimento / Esperanza Spalding: Milton + esperanza

Read "Milton + esperanza" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
July 31, 2024

Sometimes the semiology around an album can tell you more about it than any amount of words attempting to describe the music itself. And the semiology around Milton + esperanza is eloquent. It begins with the overlap with another summer 2024 release, Wayne Shorter's magical double-album Celebration Volume 1 (Blue Note), a previously unreleased recording of Shorter's Quartet in concert in 2014, with liner notes written by Shorter's wife Carolina. Now consider the overlap. Wayne Shorter recorded with ...

Album Review

Guillermo Klein Quinteto: Telmo's Tune

Read "Telmo's Tune" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
May 6, 2024

Sono passati tre decenni da quando l'argentino Guillermo Klein debuttò a New York col magistrale El Minotauro (Candid) evidenziando quelle doti di fantasioso orchestratore e bandleader che abbiamo apprezzato nei vari dischi incisi col suo ensemble Los Guachos e con la Swiss Jazz Orchestra. Negli anni l'abbiamo visto esibirsi anche con organici ridotti, dal quintetto presentato al Village Vanguard nel 2014 al minimale concept album con Rebecca Martin, Larry Grenadier e Jeff Ballard (The Upstate Project, Sunnyside, 2017). ...

Album Review

Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious

Read "Elegy for Thelonious" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 15, 2024

Dopo aver circumnavigato la musica di Monk in diversi contesti, prevalentemente come pianista in piccoli organici, Frank Carlberg, finlandese di nascita ma newyorchese a tutti gli effetti, affronta in questo suo ultimo, ambizioso lavoro l'ineffabile Thelonious da una prospettiva diversa: dedicandogli una serie di composizioni proprie ispirate a lui e alla sua arte così fuori da ogni ovvietà (non senza scampoli tematici acchiappati al volo e titolazioni spesso molto gustose ed emblematiche, da “Scallop's Scallop" a “Wrinkle on Trinkle," in ...

Album Review

Julieta Eugenio: Stay

by Dan McClenaghan
March 31, 2024

Argentina-born saxophonist Julieta Eugenio takes four breaths ("Breaths" I through IV), that she calls “short, intimate moments," in her ongoing endeavors in this (mostly) trio-format album. The saxophone, bass and drums setup is one of the most intimate. Think Sonny Rollins in Way Out West (Contemporary, 1957) and A Night At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1958), a pair of uncluttered, groundbreaking, chordless outings that stand up as classics of the format. Eugenio has proven herself marvelously ...