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Dave Douglas: Alloy

Read "Alloy" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


La lega di metalli a cui si riferisce Dave Douglas nel suo ultimo lavoro è quella delle trombe nella front-line. Tre personalità differenti, che si fondono in un tenace amalgama musicale, il cui prodotto ha caratteristiche di versatilità, elasticità, brillantezza, empatia. Ma è senz'altro possibile estendere tali caratteristiche all'intera formazione messa in scena dal trombettista, scaturita da una commissione del Festival of New Trumpet Music. Un gruppo inedito e singolare nel suo organico strumentale, con una coppia di ritmi accanto ...

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Patricia Brennan Trio at Bar Bayeux

Read "Patricia Brennan Trio at Bar Bayeux" reviewed by Paul Reynolds


Patricia Brennan Trio Bar Bayeux New York, NY September 24, 2025 If you've heard of Patricia Brennan, it's likely the awareness is recent. The Mexican vibraphonist isn't new to the scene, having been quietly honing her reputation through high-caliber collaborations in New York and elsewhere since at least the early 2020s. Yet she's traveled a little under the radar, even within the avant circles in which she belongs stylistically. Now, all of a ...

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Dave Douglas: Alloy

Read "Alloy" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Dave Douglas continues his alchemical pursuits with Alloy, forging a trumpet-centric ensemble that elevates group dialogue to new heights--proving that in jazz, three is not a crowd, it is a conspiracy of cool. Commissioned for the 23rd season of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, the project pairs the leader with British trumpeter Alexandra Ridout and New Hampshire's Dave Adewumi, creating a brass coalition where collaboration outshines competition, like diplomats dodging discord. The title nods to the art of melding ...

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Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections

Read "Unclassified Affections" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Quartetto di grande pregio quello assemblato dal batterista e compositore Dan Weiss, con alcuni dei musicisti più in vista della scena newyorchese quali il trombettista Peter Evans, la vibrafonista Patricia Brennan e il chitarrista Miles Okazaki, già frequentati per anni in diversi contesti. Le otto composizioni, tutte a firma del leader, sono state scritte con questa formazione in mente e il risultato dimostra ampiamente la bontà della scelta, quasi sessanta minuti di musica di grande fascino, semplice e complessa nello ...

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Jazz em Agosto 2025

Read "Jazz em Agosto 2025" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also the jazz month in the Portuguese capital--a time for exploratory, avant-garde sounds, leaning heavily toward electronics at the newly renovated Gulbenkian Foundation--with architecture by ...

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Jazz em Agosto 2025

Read "Jazz em Agosto 2025" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Jazz em Agosto Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona, Portogallo 1-10 agosto 2025 Malgrado la “onda de calor" portoghese stia sfiorando la capitale, Lisbona è al solito pacifica nel suo tran tran saturnino, anche se il turismo invadente della Baixa ha già trasformato certo non in meglio la sua fisionomia. Ma agosto è anche il mese del jazz (di ricerca e d'avanguardia, ormai elettronica) e lo spazio rinnovato della Fondazione Gulbenkian -con le architetture di ...

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Album Review

Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts

Read "About Ghosts" reviewed by Doug Collette


Since Mary Halvorson began her prolific affiliation with Nonesuch Records, she has refused to repeat herself except with a purpose. The simultaneous release of Amaryllis & Belladonna (Nonesuch Records, 2022) was the precursor to the expansive Cloudward (Nonesuch Records, 2024), while About Ghosts represents a retrenchment, albeit a productive one. On five of these eight cuts, the identical Amaryllis Sextet that appeared on the latter LP interacts smoothly with guest saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles. Such synchrony ...


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