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Mark Turner and Jason Palmer: Not Even The Sky Is The Limit
by Pat Youngspiel
The independent non-profit label Giant Step Arts continues to cultivate its narrow but highly selective roster of top-tier players with new live recordings by label-regulars Mark Turner and Jason Palmer. Each has been a part of the other's quartet for several years at this point, endowing their respective projects with the unifying contours of their idiosyncratically written-out horn parts and signature designs in improvisation. Here, Mark Turner is heard as the sole horn player in a newly formed quartet on ...
Continue ReadingJason Palmer: The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn
by Troy Dostert
For a label that just got its start in 2018, it has quickly become evident that Giant Step Arts brings a potent, focused discipline to its documentation of some of the most distinctive jazz talents of our time. Rather than covering the field with as many different musicians as possible, the label's founder, Jimmy Katz, has chosen instead to cultivate close relationships with a relatively modest number--foremost of whom is trumpeter Jason Palmer, who has released three discs on the ...
Continue ReadingBenjamin Lackner: Spindrift
by Jack Kenny
Benjamin Lackner has a vision and his album is a coherent statement of his ideas: a radical statement of lyricism, gentleness, restraint and understatement. It was a long-time dream. For some time, Benjamin Lackner has had a wish to record with ECM. In an interview, he outlined his attempts to produce music that would impress ECM's Manfred Eicher. Benny Lackner became Benjamin. He experimented with different formats, eventually achieving his ambition with Last Decade (2022), his first album ...
Continue ReadingJohn Escreet: The Epicenter Of Your Dreams
by Vincenzo Roggero
Il trio base è quello che nel 2022 licenziò il notevole Seismic Shift, ossia John Escreet al pianoforte, Eric Revis al contrabbasso, Damion Reid alla batteria. Per la realizzazione di Epicenter of Your Dreams la formazione si allarga a quartetto con l'aggiunta del sassofonista Mark Turner. Insomma una formazione di grande prestigio che curiosamente presenta musicisti nati a Los Angeles, cresciuti professionalmente a New York, e ritornati a L.A., con la parziale anomalia del britannico Escreet, che comunque ...
Continue ReadingJohn Escreet: The Epicenter Of Your Dreams
by Mark Corroto
There is that image from one of Sergio Leone's spaghetti Western films where three gunfighters stand in the dusty town center, guns drawn, waiting for someone to flinch. That depiction of the Old West is somewhat appropriate as the UK-born pianist, John Escreet, who was based in New York for nearly a decade, moved to Los Angeles. He traded his NY trio of John Hébert and Tyshawn Sorey for the L.A. gunfighters bassist Eric Revis and drummer Damion Reid. The ...
Continue ReadingLinda May Han Oh: The Glass Hours
by Angelo Leonardi
Cinque anni dopo la registrazione di Aventurine, il suo precedente album da leader, Linda May Han Oh torna con un nuovo progetto e un nuovo organico. Sappiamo ormai che ogni disco della contrabbassista e compositrice costituisce una tappa del suo percorso esistenziale e artistico, rappresenta il risultato di profonde riflessioni e assume le forme di un concept album. Gli accadimenti e le esperienze che stanno alla base di The Glass Hours riguardano soprattutto due “pause di riflessione" ...
Continue ReadingMark Turner: Live At The Village Vanguard
by Angelo Leonardi
A due anni di distanza dalla pubblicazione di Return from the Stars il pianoless quartet di Mark Turner torna con questo corposo doppio album: oltre due ore di musica che documentano il meglio delle serate al Village Vanguard del 18 e 19 giugno 2022. Musicalmente la distanza che lo separa dal disco ECM, registrato nel novembre 2019, è di cinque anni, ma non ci sono grandi cambiamenti: quel repertorio è ripreso interamente con l'aggiunta di composizioni già ...
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