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Christy Doran: In The Corner Of The Eye

Read "In The Corner Of The Eye" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 10, 2016

Celebrated Irish guitarist Christy Doran's penchant to keep reinventing his musical self is quite evident due to the disparate bands and solo projects he's undertaken for several decades. Whether imparting a jazz fusion spin on Jimi Hendrix with the band Call Me Helium Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Double Moon, 2005) or experimental jazz and improvisational efforts with keyboardist John Wolf Brennan and other notables, Doran's hefty discography yields a kaleidoscopic perspective. The program on In The ...

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Funk Off: Things Change

Read "Things Change" reviewed by Alex Franquelli

by Alex Franquelli
October 15, 2015

The whole point, when it comes to marching bands, is that they have to well, stroll around while playing their instruments. I guess, you guess, that the whole point is lost on CD, where the mono-dimensional (time) facet of the spectrum monopolises the dynamics of the whole. Things Change makes obviously no exception, but does it matter? Not at all. The range of influences at play here is-- by itself--praiseworthy and laudable; the magnitude of their individual skillsets reveals a ...

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Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble: A Trumpet in the Morning

Read "A Trumpet in the Morning" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
February 24, 2014

Ricercatore instancabile, Marty Ehrlich torna dopo 13 anni con un progetto per big band, firmando uno dei dischi più belli del 2013. Rara avis, il lavoro di arrangiamento si distingue per una idea di jazz magnificamente svincolato da regole e formulette. Prevale una pratica musicale estremamente volatile, che anche all'interno di un solo episodio cambia continuamente forma e soluzioni, giocando mimeticamente con più stili. Le composizioni si impongono per l'obliquità ruvida del tessuto sonoro, con masse sonore graffianti, in continuo ...

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Marty Ehrlich: A Trumpet In The Morning

by Dan Bilawsky
December 18, 2013

A Trumpet In The Morning is a first for multi-reedist Marty Ehrlich; it's the first album completely dedicated to his large group works and the first album under his name that's basically directed by his hand rather than his horn(s). The intrepid Ehrlich, who fell under the sway of St. Louis' Black Artists Group (BAG) in his formative years and fell in with the AACM crowd when he arrived in New York in the late '70s, has been putting out ...

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Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet: Frog Leg Logic

Read "Frog Leg Logic" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2012

Un inizio dolce e soave, leggermente bucolico e cameristico, fa presagire paesaggi sonori celestiali e meditativi. Inaspettatamente al minuto uno e quarantadue irrompe il violoncello pizzicato di Hank Roberts che dà il via ad un blues torrido, cadenzato e sensuale. Sembra di sentirlo addosso il caldo umido del Delta, i profumi e gli odori intensi della natura, lo scorrere lento e indolente del grande fiume, il contralto di Marty Ehrlich voce di un lamento che si fa invocazione e poi ...

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Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet: Frog Leg Logic

Read "Frog Leg Logic" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
January 12, 2012

The premier of Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet, Things Have Got To Change (Clean Feed, 2009), featured the venerable multi-instrumentalist's engaging originals bolstered by a handful of previously unrecorded pieces by his mentor, the late Julius Hemphill (1938-1995). Drawing on Hemphill's seminal work in the St Louis-based Black Artists' Group (BAG), and his innovative writing for the World Saxophone Quartet, Ehrlich has proven to be one of the legendary saxophonist's most ardent devotees, leading Hemphill's self-titled saxophone sextet after his passing.

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Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet: Things Have Got To Change

Read "Things Have Got To Change" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 16, 2009

Things Have Got to Change del quartetto del sassofonista Marty Ehrlich è il secondo disco nel giro di pochi mesi, dopo il fantastico Historicity di Vijay Iyer, a contemplare nella propria scaletta un capolavoro negletto del jazz contemporaneo come “Dogon A.D." di Julius Hemphill. In questo caso la circostanza non dovrebbe sorprendere più di tanto, dal momento che del compianto musicista di Forth Worth, Ehrlich è stato allievo e collaboratore, nonché - dopo la prematura scomparsa di Hemphill nel 1995 ...