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Ludovica Burtone: Migration Tales
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo il debutto del 2020 con Sparks, la violinista friulana attiva a New York presenta un album ampiamente rinnovato nell'organico strumentale e nei suoi componenti. Non c'è più il quartetto d'archi ma un sestetto d'impronta jazzistica e prevalenza femminile, in cui resta solo la pianista Marta Sánchez. I nuovi partner sono Milena Casado al flicorno, Julieta Eugenio al sax tenore, Tyrone Allen II al contrabbasso e Jongkuk Kim alla batteria. Ludovica Burtone spesso interviene come vocalist in unisono al violino. ...
Continue ReadingGrand/Nebbia/Sánchez/Mendenhall/Fernández: Altered Visions
by Mark Corroto
In July 1967, The Beatles released the single “All You Need Is Love," with “Baby, You're a Rich Man" on the flip side. It's not that the quintet performing “Wild Marks," the 33-minute track comprising the entirety of Altered Visions, is covering that Lennon-McCartney anthem. But the music presented here embodies the spirit of the idea that love is all you need. Altered Visions is the inaugural release from Lilailia Records, a label founded by three artists: saxophonists ...
Continue ReadingMarta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void
by Stefano Merighi
Marta Sanchez è una pianista madrilena di stanza a New York, già attiva da un decennio come leader, attualmente anche nel quartetto di David Murray. La sua formazione accademica si respira già nell'incipit di questo bel disco, “I Don't Wanna Live the Wrong Life and Then Die" dove il tocco, la singolare divisione metrica e la saturazione armonica suggeriscono uno stile che dai barocchi si sposta ai contemporanei, senza passare per i classico romantici. Il jazz per Marta ...
Continue ReadingMarta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void
by John Sharpe
For her first leadership date on the Swiss Intakt label, NYC-based Spanish pianist Marta Sanchez returns to the trio format which she last aired way back on her debut Lunas, Soles Y Elefantes (Errabal, 2008). While some may regret the absence of the two-saxophone front line which she has used in the meantime, the overwhelming positive is the greater opportunity she affords herself to step into the spotlight. She does that most assuredly on Perpetual Void, having enlisted a fabulously ...
Continue ReadingMarta Sánchez, Benoit Delbecq, Fergus McCreadie, Rob Clearfield & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
As if 88 keys were not enough, here are 440 keys, played by five exciting pianists featured on today's show, Fergus McCreadie, Marta Sánchez, Noam Duboille, Benoit Delbecq and Rob Clearfield [in order of appearance]. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Fergus McCreadie “Driftwood" Stream (Edition) 0:16 Host talks 5:51 Marta Sánchez “This Is the Last One About You" Perpetual Void (Intakt) 7:28 Host talks 12:15 David ...
Continue ReadingDavid Murray Quartet with Marta Sanchez, Luke Stewart and Russell Carter: Francesca
by Mike Jurkovic
A jazz classicist since his heady and historic days founding The World Saxophone Quartet, David Murray takes to a studio just outside Zurich with a rhythm section of the next generation and emerges triumphant with the standout Francesca. With an average age of, give or take, thirty-six years between them, Murray, the veteran nearing seventy, brings the music and the fire to the young ones and “Francesca" waltzes into life with a bluesy cool all its own. Pianist ...
Continue ReadingMarta Sanchez Trio with Chris Tordini and Savannah Harris: Perpetual Void
by Mark Corroto
Marta Sanchez and her trio of bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Savannah Harris want their listeners to endeavor to keep up. Judging by the opening two tracks on Perpertual Void, keeping the pace might be a tall task. The Madrid-born New York-based pianist spins a dizzying web with “I Don't Wanna Live The Life And Then Die" and “3:30 AM," referencing her yearlong (2020) bout with insomnia. Her compositions are taut high-wire balancing acts that most certainly could not be ...
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