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Jazzlab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus
by Jack Bowers
The Jazzlab Orchestra, formed in 2004 and based in Montreal, Canada, lies somewhere short of orchestra-size. It's actually an octet—but don't let that deter you; the unison passages are generally robust and pleasing. Jazzlab does play jazz of a sort, music that may best be described as contemporary cerebral. In other words, this is not akin to the Dave Pell or Marty Paich octets; it's more along the lines of Gunther Schuller, Jan Garbarek or William Russo. But even though ...
Continue ReadingGreg Burk: Sound Neighbors
by Mark Corroto
Just as they say in real estate, “location, location, location," the same can be said for the piano trio of Greg Burk, bassist Ron Seguin, and drummer Michel Lambert. Recorded in Rome, where the American Burk now makes his home, Sound Neighbors reunites the pianist with the Canadians Seguin (also a resident of Rome) and Lambert, who were last heard on Burk's Many Worlds (482 Music, 2009) with Henry Cook.The music does travel well, meaning that locating the ...
Continue ReadingMichel Lambert: Alom Mola
by John Eyles
Michel Lambert is probably best known as a jazz and improvising drummer, most familiar from his recordings with fellow Canadian and saxophonist François Carrier, made since the turn of the millennium. However, there are other sides to Lambert that are not immediately obvious from that work. He has released several albums of his own compositions on the Jazz from Rant label that he founded in the early 90's with his wife Jeanette Lambert and her brother Reg Schwager, the label ...
Continue ReadingFrançois Carrier - Michael Lambert - Jean-Jacques Avenel: Within
by AAJ Italy Staff
Delle svariate fisionomie che l'improvvisazione radicale può assumere, quella rappresentata da questo trio francese, registrato al Jazz Festival di Calgary nel giugno 2007, è una delle più toniche e discorsive, rimanendo ancora ben radicata nel free jazz. La musica dei tre lunghi brani, a firma congiunta come la titolarità del CD, si evolve con fluida continuità, con un solido senso narrativo e con una variata concezione della sonorità, tentando di materializzare di volta in volta diverse atmosfere. Un precedente illustre, ...
Continue ReadingFrancois Carrier - Michel Lambert: Kathmandu
by AAJ Italy Staff
Kathmandu è il resoconto di una settimana di incontri, di amicizie, di sorprese, di colori, di profumi, e, naturalmente, di suoni che il sassofonista Francois Carrier e il batterista Michel Lambert hanno avuto modo di registrare nella capitale nepalese durante la quinta edizione del Jazzmandu Festival. Tra i principali esponenti della scena improvvisativa canadese, i due musicisti e amici di lunga data, scelgono la strada di undici improvvisazioni di medio-breve durata, proprio per esprimere il grande ventaglio di emozioni creato ...
Continue ReadingMichel Lambert: Le Passant (The Wanderer)
by Troy Collins
Montreal-based and conservatory-trained percussionist Michel Lambert conceived the suite on Le Passant as a conceptual conflict, pitting a chamber orchestra against a small group of jazz improvisers. In the liner notes Lambert describes the piece as more struggle than collaboration, an argument as opposed to discussion, improvisation versus composition.
The first half of the recording embodies this aesthetic at its most combative, with the improvisers weaving in and out of the massed ensemble. Sometimes they struggle to be ...
Continue ReadingMichel Lambert: Le Passant (The Wanderer)
by John Kelman
The usual meeting place of improvisation and orchestra works around firm structure where the improvisers solo within the rigid confines of the orchestral arrangements, or the orchestra acts as an underlying support, scored in and around pre-existing extemporization. But in rare cases, daring composers have found ways to allow improvisers to remain untethered while at the same time broadening the sonic palette with a larger ensemble. Howard Shore's collaborative soundtrack with Ornette Coleman for David Cronenberg's film Naked Lunch was ...
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