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Julie Sassoon, Lothar Ohlmeier, Mia Ohlmeier: Inside Colours Duo/Trio Live
by Alberto Bazzurro
La pianista inglese Julie Sassoon è la principale artefice di questo doppio album, che riunisce i riflessi di due diverse esibizioni live rispettivamente al Bayerischer Rundfunk e alla Berliner Philharmonie datate maggio 2022 e aprile 2023 (col recupero di materiale del luglio 2016: i tre brani finali del primo CD): sue tutte le composizioni in scaletta, in effetti in possesso di un'estrema unitarietà strutturale e climatica, messe in campo nel primo caso in duo con le ance del marito Lothar ...
Continue ReadingJulie Sassoon: Inside Colours Live
by Mike Jurkovic
Shedding warm illuminations on all our fragile, secretive, sensuous moments, is the underlying axiom behind British pianist/composer Julie Sassoon 's vulnerable and telling music. A classicist at heart who, whether she is aware of it or not, comes at her music in much the manner as Marilyn Crispell--visceral, personal, labyrinthine, yet ultimately accessible--Sassoon's sense of the improbable and the possible doesn't so much dominate the live performances that comprise Inside Colours Live as they green-light both to occur simultaneously.
Continue ReadingJulie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages
by Mike Jurkovic
As on a high speed, downhill slalom chase, listeners are suddenly, nakedly and without poles hurled into “Missed Calls"; the opening burst of sublime energy and groupthink cracks Voyages wide open, sets the mad, determined pace and tone for a craftily organic, six-song, free-jazz adventure which never lets up. It is breakneck rhythm churning, keening, into whiplash waves, a wake up call of massive proportions. “Missed Calls" busts Berlin-based, British pianist Julie Sassoon and her henchmen from isolation and double ...
Continue ReadingJulie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages
by Dan McClenaghan
Not all voyages involve smooth sailing. Indeed, pianist Julie Sassoon's Voyages opens on a blustery note. It is a quartet outing--as opposed to Sassoon's 2021 solo set, When You Can't go Outside...Go Inside (Jazzwerkstatt), with the pianist joined by reedman Lothar Ohlmeier, bassist Meirad Kneer and drummer Rudi Fischerlehner. The opener, “Missed Calls," sounds like a prelude to battening down the hatches in its blustery beginning section, before Sassoon take an introverted solo during a lull in the squall.
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