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by Pierre Giroux
Frank Kimbrough, who died in December 2020, was a pianist of passionate originality, whose playing can be defined by an ease of technique coupled with a flow of ideas and meticulous execution. This current release, Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006, features newly mixed and remastered versions of the pianist's 2003 album Lullabluebye and the 2006 follow-up release Play. These albums were thought to be representative of a particularly productive period in his career. On Lullabluebye, Kimbrough is accompanied ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Frank Kimbrough (1956 -2020) was involved in a good deal of collaboration throughout his career, with the Herbie Nichols Project and, most notably, his twenty-four year, seven CD stint in the piano chair of the Maria Schneider Orchestra, where he elevated an already high altitude music to an even loftier level. Such was Kimbrough's willingness to give his all in sideman contexts with like-minded artists that it could be argued that his own work as a leader may not ...
read moreFrank Kimbrough, Kirk Knuffke, Masa Kamaguchi: Ancestors
by Angelo Leonardi
Come hanno sottolineato i molti partner di Frank Kimbrough nel recente omaggio della Newvelle Records, c'è sempre stata una chiara vena lirica nell'arte musicale del pianista, espressa in equilibrio tra dimensione tradizionale e ricerca astratta. Nei suoi dischi da leader amava esibirsi in duo o in trio e quest'album postumo—registrato nel 2017—mostra già dall'organico la propensione a esplorare sentieri meno battuti. Assieme a Kirk Knuffke alla cornetta e Masa Kamaguchi al contrabbasso, Kimbrough presenta sette composizioni originali, tre ...
read moreJohn O’Gallagher Trio: Dirty Hands
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dirty Hands costituisce il disco (il sesto da leader) giusto per assaporare la valenza musicale dell'alto-sassofonista John O'Gallagher, noto al grande pubblico per le collaborazioni con Joe Henderson, Kenny Wheeler, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder o la Maria Schneider Orchestra. In questa sessione portoghese del 2007 lo ritroviamo alla testa di un trio affiatatissimo con contrabbasso e batteria, in una formula a lui congeniale per l'esplorazione di dinamiche aspre e forti, in bilico tra composizione ed improvvisazione. Si tatta di un ...
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