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Courtney Cutchins: Grunge to Grace
by Angelo Leonardi
È un debutto discografico dalla lunga gestazione --almeno un decennio-quest'album di Courtney Cutchins, che rilegge in ottica jazz l'estetica grunge, sottolineandolo nella scelta del titolo. Dei nove brani che costituiscono il percorso musicale, la cantante ne riprende due dal repertorio dei Soundgarden ("Boot Camp" e “The Day I Tried to Live") e uno da Kurt Kobain ("All Apologies"), aggiungendone sei di sua composizione. Nata a Seattle, Courtney ha respirato il clima del grunge rock nell'adolescenza ma ...
Continue ReadingMike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters
by Jack Bowers
This Rock We're On, acclaimed composer and pianist Mike Holober's 2024 recording as leader of the Gotham Jazz Orchestra, is challenging to summarize in mere words, as it consists of a multi-part suite (on two CDs) which blends jazz, classical and art songs in a thematic environment that uses a series of “imaginary letters" from a half dozen writers, artists and activists. Holober's orchestral response to them is the premise for “a meditation on the beauty of nature and the ...
Continue ReadingMike Holober & the Gotham City Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo gli ultimi superlativi album orchestrali (Balancing Act, Palmetto 2015 e Hiding Out, Zoho 2019) la nuova incisione di Mike Holober con la Gotham Jazz Orchestra non dovrebbe stupirci, eppure questo doppio album ci ha nuovamente colpito. L'aggiunta di Chris Potter, John Patitucci, Nir Felder e della cantante brasiliana Jamile Staevie Ayres all'orchestra rende infatti il progetto quanto mai esaltante. Questi nomi completano un organico già nutrito di solisti ragguardevoli come Marvin Stamm e Scott Wendholt alle trombe, ...
Continue ReadingMike Holober: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters
by Dan McClenaghan
We live on a rock. A few billion years of the workings of the complexities of carbon chemistry put us here. The systems and intricacies of every element that has unfolded to maintain us should be respected and preserved. Mike Holober's This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters, featuring Holober and his Gotham Jazz Orchestra, digs into this theme in a sprawling, two-disc big band jazz outing. Like life itself, and the resulting ecosystems, this multi-movement suite--an effort that is the ...
Continue ReadingAlan Ferber: Up High, Down Low
by Angelo Leonardi
Nel nono disco da bandleader, il trombonista Alan Ferber ritorna col suo abituale nonet, con cui ha già inciso quattro album. L'organico ha subìto qualche cambiamento con le presenze del chitarrista Nir Felder, di Chris Cheek al sax baritono e qualche altro (ma restano i fidi sassofonisti Jon Gordon, Charles Pillow e John Ellis, il trombettista Scott Wendholt) confermando l'estetica di fondo: un modern mainstream caratterizzato da groove ritmico, chiarezza melodica e arrangiamenti leggibili che s'ispirano anche al soul ...
Continue ReadingNir Felder, Holger Marjamaa, Peela and Robby Krieger
by Len Davis
New music with Nir Felder, Holger Marjamaa, Daniele Chiantese, Scott Henderson and David Aubile. Argentinian band Streams, and Joseph Patrick Moore. Playlist Nir Felder “Cold Heaven “ from Cold Heaven (La reserve) 00:00 Holger Marjamaa “Rush Hour" from Rush Hour (Self Produced) 05:18 {Daniale Chiantese “Tech" from Kamayan (Camilla) 10:48 Peela “Not Bad" from Not Bad (Eclipse) 16:16 Robby Krieger “Math Problem" from Robby Krieger & The Soul Savages (Mascot) 21:33 Bees “Everything Yes" from Vol 2 (Self ...
Continue ReadingItalian band The Mad Lab, Ken Talve with Chad Wackerman and Antoine Fafard from Proto Mundi
by Len Davis
Brazilian bassist Fernando Molinari, guitarist Ken Talve from Bad Barista, French Band Shob with their latest Voraces, Antoine Fafard and Nir Felder. Playlist Fernando Molinari “Internal Sun" from Reaching Inside (Self Produced) 00:00 The Mad Lab “The Maze in the Mind" from Design of Experiments (Self Produced) 06:48 Ken Talve “Bad Barista" from Bad Barista (Self Produced) 13:33 Shob “La Trace from Voraces (Self Produced) 20:21 Naor Levy “Morning in Yemen" from Momentum (Self Produced) 27:08 Antoine Fafard ...
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