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Stephan Crump: Slow Water

Read "Slow Water" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Ispirato al libro della giornalista scientifica Erica Gies intitolato Water Always Wins e commissionato dalla Shifting Foundation, Slow Water mostra ancora una volta, se mai fosse necessario, come Stephan Crump sia da considerarsi figura di prima grandezza della scena improvvisativa statunitense, non solo come partner di lusso o co-leader, ma come autore di progetti a proprio nome che lasciano il segno. Come il disco in questione, quasi settanta minuti di magie sonore organizzati in forma di suite e interpretati da ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Patricia Brennan, Ola Tunji & Ingerbrigt Haker-Flaten

Read "Patricia Brennan, Ola Tunji & Ingerbrigt Haker-Flaten" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan put together a very strong ensemble to make Breaking Stretch, one of the best releases of 2024. Her original compositions and ever-growing skills on her instrument draw on elements of her native Mexico, and that helps to set apart this terrific new album. The free jazz scene of Mexico City gets additional space in the music of the trio, Tulpas. You may never have heard of saxophonist Ornella Noulet, guitarist Roman Raynaud, pianist LoÏc Lengagne, bassist Anthony ...

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Patricia Brennan: Breaking Stretch

Read "Breaking Stretch" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


On her first two albums, vibraphonist Patricia Brennan worked with a quartet comprised of three percussion instruments, herself on vibes and marimba, joined by percussionist Mauricio Herrera and drummer Marcus Gilmore, with a bassist Kim Cass. Momentum in large part, is the name of the game. For Breaking Stretch she expands her musical universe, adding trumpeter Adam O'Farrill and saxophonists Mark Shim and Jon Irabagon. This proved a good move; her musical universe in this septet setting has an energy ...

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Patricia Brennan: Breaking Stretch

Read "Breaking Stretch" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Wild-willed vibraphonist Patricia Brennan gets straight down to business without any fanciful mission declaration with the Afro-Cuban, effusively powered, clear-the-dancefloor and blow-the-ceiling-off this joint “Los Otros Yo (The Other Selves)," the opening cut of her third album Breaking Stretch. She does so in a captivatingly, wickedly good way. Brennan--who has added much vitality to music by such other big thinkers as Vijay Iyer, Mary Halvorson, Anna Webber, Michael Formanek--began her musical education at 4 years old listening to ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Jaco Pastorius Legacy 5tet, Orrin Evans, Patricia Brennan Septet and more

Read "Jaco Pastorius Legacy 5tet, Orrin Evans, Patricia Brennan Septet and more" reviewed by Tony Poole


A new AAJ music mix series focusing on new jazz releases. Each episode will feature 10 brand new tracks from my favourite new albums, EP's and singles. The selections promise to be funky and soulful, some with a Latin-tinge, and others even a little avante-garde... and always in the groove! Playlist Jaco Pastorius Legacy 5tet “(Used To Be A) Cha Cha" from Jaco Pastorius Legacy 5tet (Tomas Merlo) 00:00 Tamil Rogeon “Ascend it" from Wave Theory (Impressive Collective/BBC ...

Album Review

Miles Okazaki: Miniature America

Read "Miniature America" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Ventidue miniature svarianti da uno a sei minuti, con impegnati sottoinsiemi (o microgruppi, se preferite) estrapolati dal totale dei dieci elementi, sette strumentisti e tre cantanti, coinvolti nell'operazione, è quanto ci offre questo nuovo lavoro discografico (il dodicesimo, ci viene detto) a nome del cinquantenne chitarrista Miles Okazaki, con la partecipazione di svariati musicisti di punta dell'attuale scena newyorchese (e non). Ogni episodio possiede--fisiologicamente, verrebbe da dire--un aplomb cameristico di sicuro fascino, anche se è inevitabile che il ...

Album Review

Jeff Lederer, Mary LaRose: Schoenberg on the Beach

Read "Schoenberg on the Beach" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


La copertina, scarna ed evocativa, con quel virato seppia che le dà tutto il fascino delle cose d'antan, dice già molto circa la tipologia e il tono del lavoro, firmato da Jeff Lederer in combutta con sua moglie, la cantante Mary LaRose, la quale attraversa il disco come una sorta di presenza parallela, districandosi--quando chiamata al centro delle operazioni--attraverso testi di autori anche molto illustri (Goethe, Nietzsche e Rilke bastano a rendere l'idea?) e musiche non solo del dedicatario dell'opera, ...


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