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Noah Preminger: Haymaker
by Hrayr Attarian
Tenor saxophone phenomenon Noah Preminger's third release as a leader Haymaker is a uniformly engaging album with a strong poetic sense. The ten uncluttered compositions serve primarily as vehicles for Preminger's intelligent expressions of creative spontaneity as well as those of his highly sympathetic band-mates.On the title track Preminger's melodic and angular monologue evolves like free verse with intriguing flexibility of cadence while maintaining a mellifluous lilt. Together with guitarist Ben Monder's sparse and chiming notes and drummer ...
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by Mark Corroto
Although saxophonist Noah Preminger titled his disc Haymaker, a term denoting a wildly unorthodox punch thrown by a boxer, his third release as a leader (second for Palmetto) is anything but undisciplined. Following Before The Rain (Palmetto, 2011), he reorganizes his quartet and reunites with guitarist Ben Monder from debut sextet session Dry Bridge Road (Nowt Records, 2008). The pair share an affinity for disciplined music making and the gifts of musical sprezzatura and a pure tone.Their music ...
Continue ReadingRob Garcia 4: The Drop and the Ocean
by AAJ Italy Staff
Rob Garcia è batterista dalle frequentazioni eccellenti (Joe Lovano, Myra Melford, Reggie Workman, etc), dal solido percorso di leader (il quartetto in questione con qualche cambio di formazione è alla sua quarta incisione), dalle idee chiare sulla promozione musicale e culturale (sua l'idea del Connection Works, organizzazione no- profit di musicisti di Brooklyn e dintorni) e, non da ultimo, autore di musica di ottima livello. Come testimonia questo Drop and the Ocean, denso affresco sonoro con tre brevissimi interludi solistici ...
Continue ReadingNoah Preminger Quartet, Boston, February 23
by Gordon Marshall
Noah PremingerScullers Jazz ClubBoston, Mass.February 23, 2011 To judge by his sophomore effort, Before the Rain (Palmetto, 2011), tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger's singular forte is the reinvention of the ballad. He does it so well, and so nearly exclusively, that it came as a pleasant surprise, during his performance at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Mass., that there is so much more to him than that (not least his power to surprise), and that he ...
Continue ReadingNoah Preminger: Before The Rain
by Jerry D'Souza
Sensitivity and an ear for aural sophistication are the hallmarks of tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger. His eloquent ruminations magnify the context of a tune and he is instinctive enough to keep the emotional context within focus. He showed this in abundance on his debut, Dry Bridge Road (Nowt Records, 2008), and he retains all the traits of that outstanding recording on this project as well. Preminger has pared his group to a quartet, a move that strengthens the ...
Continue ReadingNoah Preminger: Before The Rain
by Mark Corroto
How do you follow up one of the finest debut jazz albums of the new millennium? For saxophonist Noah Preminger, you pair down the sextet heard on Dry Bridge Road (Nowt Records, 2008) and display more of your own sound.The twenty-something saxophonist returns with bassist John Hébert and pianist Frank Kimbrough on his Palmetto Records debut, Before The Rain (maybe a play on John Coltrane's “After The Rain"), along with everyone's favorite drummer, Matt Wilson. The quartet gambles ...
Continue ReadingRob Garcia 4: Perennial
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se le etichette avessero ancora senso compiuto nel linguaggio in continua evoluzione di chi parla intorno alla musica improvvisata potremmo dire che Perennial è post-bop con venature free a ottimi livelli di modernità e di creatività. Rob Garcia, batterista dalle nobili frequentazioni (Chris Cheek, Joe Lovano, Myra Melford, Dave Binney, Ben Monder, Diana Krall, Reggie Workman, Bob Berg, per citarne alcuni), psicologo, profondo conoscitore di tecniche di meditazione, promotore di Connection Works, organizzazione di musicisti no-profit radicata in Brooklyn, si ...
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