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Noah Kaplan Quartet: Out of the Hole

Read "Out of the Hole" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 4, 2020

This is the third installment of saxophonist, composer Noah Kaplan's quartet for the hatology (now ezz-thetics) label amid an eight-year delay between the time the sessions were completed and the issuance of the album. For example, this live outing recorded at Firehouse 12 in Connecticut was consummated in 2012 and released in 2020. But in the liners, Kaplan states that a “quartet reunion gig in 2017 reminded him of the previously unreleased material's growth and substance" warranting a release of ...

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Noah Kaplan: Cluster Swerve

Read "Cluster Swerve" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
January 29, 2018

Nel 2011 il sassofonista e compositore Noah Kaplan aveva pubblicato l'album Descendants, con lo stesso quartetto che comprende Joe Morris alla chitarra, Giacomo Merega al basso elettrico e Jason Nazary alla batteria. La matrice della sua musica con questo organico si mostrava ben focalizzata sui parametri free derivanti dallo studio degli intervalli microtonali al New England Conservatory di Boston, sotto la guida di un'autorità in materia come Joe Maneri. Con lui aveva approfondito pure lo studio di armonia, contrappunto e ...

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Noah Kaplan

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 25, 2018

1. Joseph Haydn, Symphony 44, 25, 49 Iona Brown & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (haenssler CLASSIC, 2000). Ci ho messo del tempo a rendermi conto di che tipo tosto fosse Haydn. Un sacco di Bach e presagi di Beethoven in questo disco. 2. Charles Mingus, Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic, 1956). Violento e sexy. L'essenza del jazz. 3. Wyschnegradsky, Wyschnegradsky / Ives: Quarter-Tone Pieces (HatHut, 2007). Ho recentemente pubblicato una ...

Album Review

Noah Kaplan Quartet: Cluster Swerve

Read "Cluster Swerve" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 6, 2017

Saxophonist Noah Kaplan's second album for the Switzerland-based hatOLOGY label equates to a six-year gap, following his debut, Descendants (2011). But the artist has been productive by pushing the envelope via his multi-purposed activities with various ensembles amid his status as a PhD candidate in Music Composition at prestigious Princeton University. He skirts the free-zone here, along with revered improvising guitarist Joe Morris. During Kaplan's studies at the New England Conservatory he learned some broad concepts under Joe ...

Album Review

Dollshot: Dollshot

Read "Dollshot" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 30, 2012

Arnold Schoenberg, Francis Poulenc, Charles Ives tutti insieme appassionatamente nell'abbraccio loro riservato da Dollshot, interessante quartetto riunito attorno ai due fratelli Kaplan (Rosalie alla voce e Noah al sassofono) e completato dal pianista Wes Matthews e dal bassista Giacomo Merega. La ricetta utilizzata da questi protagonisti della scena avant newyorchese è chiara sin dalle prime battute. Rispetto assoluto delle linee tematiche dei brani e altrettanto risoluta elaborazione attraverso una serie di micro- variazioni che vanno ad alterarne gli equilibri e ...

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Noah Kaplan: Descendants

Read "Descendants" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 26, 2012

Chi sono i 'discendenti' a cui fa riferimento nel titolo il giovane saxofonista Noah Kaplan? Certamente non sono i pronipoti hawaiani del bel film con George Clooney, che porta lo stesso titolo (in Italia non si sa perché è stato ribattezzato Paradiso Amaro). Forse guardando le cose a rovescio, i 'discendenti' sono proprio i quattro musicisti del suo gruppo e i padri da cui discendono sono Joe Maneri e Ornette Coleman. E tanti altri musicisti che negli ultimi 50 anni ...

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Noah Kaplan: Descendants

Read "Descendants" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 24, 2012

Who knew that tenor saxophonist Noah Kaplan would turn out to be an old soul? Probably no one, especially those who have heard his extraordinary propensity for wailing in a sea of microtones and xenharmonics. But the truth is that Kaplan has made his lineage clear. He goes further back, from reeds-master Joe Maneri to the Greeks--even the ancient Indians--with his soft drones and whispering, sliding glissandi to thank the lute players. He goes back to the veena and sitar ...