Jazz Articles about Santiago Leibson

About Santiago Leibson

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Elsa Nilsson è una flautista e compositrice svedese residente a New York, qui al quindicesimo album da leader e al quarto con la formazione denominata Band of Pulse. Liminal è in qualche modo testimonianza della fine di una lunga relazione sentimentale e traduce in musica il complesso terreno emotivo che non si esaurisce nell'intimità della vicenda ma si estende ai meccanismi e ai processi che determinano la vita sociale. Risulta quindi consequenziale che la musica distribuita su otto brani ...

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Elsa Nilsson: Liminal

Read "Liminal" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 5, 2026

If, for just 52 minutes, one needs to step away from the breach, do not hesitate to push play on Liminal. A Brooklyn conceptualist by way of Sweden and Seattle, “Andetag" (Swedish for “breath") opens flautist/composer Elsa Nilsson's Liminal. But, all things considered, it could have been sequenced anywhere in the playlist given Nilsson's nod to late-night dance floors. Elusive, bluesy and a very danceable dance of equals, Band of Pulses--Nilsson, fellow piano arsonist Santiago Leibson, wiry bassist Marty Kenney ...

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Michael Sarian: Live at Cliff Bell's - Vol. II

Read "Live at Cliff Bell's - Vol. II" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
December 19, 2025

There was no reason whatsoever for listeners who enjoyed trumpeter Michael Sarian's terrific 2024 release, Live at Cliff Bell's (Shifting Paradigm Records), to feel short--changed. Capturing all the energy and excitement of a first-rate performance at the renowned Detroit jazz club from the previous year, the album traversed a wide spectrum of emotional registers and displayed the instrumental excellence which confirmed Sarian's standing as one of the premier talents of his generation. But what was left unmentioned at the time ...

Radio & Podcasts

Santiago Leibson, Nicholas Payton, Ronny Graupe, Polar Bear & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 16, 2025

Enjoy another batch of wonderful recent releases which reshuffle long-time collaborators into fresh configurations, as well as the reissues of two seminal albums by Polar Bear. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (featuring Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nicholas Payton featuring Esperanza Spalding, Karriem Riggins) “Gold Dust Black Magic TRIUNE (Smoke Sessions) 0:16 Host talks 7:09 Guano Padano, Enrico Rava “Katcharpari" La Giostra--Guano Padano Plays with Enrico Rava (Hora) 8:23 Host talks 14:50 ...

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Michael Attias: Quartet Music Vol I: LuMiSong & Vol II: Kardamon Fall

Read "Quartet Music Vol I: LuMiSong & Vol II: Kardamon Fall" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 8, 2025

Saxophonist Michaël Attias has impressed on the NYC scene for over three decades. He has recorded with Paul Motian, Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum, while artists like Eric Revis, Anthony Coleman and Kris Davis have covered his compositions. But despite such recognition, Attias's discography undeservedly languishes in single figures. His decision to issue two volumes of quartet music, Lumisong and Kardamon Fall, available separately or together in a single package, represents the next step in his evolution ...

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Matt Pavolka: Disciplinary Architecture

Read "Disciplinary Architecture" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 19, 2025

Pur essendo da oltre vent'anni una presenza importante della scena newyorchese il bassista, trombonista, compositore Matt Pavolka ha pubblicato solo tre album a proprio nome: l'esordio di Something People Can Use (Toneofapitch, 2008), l'ottimo The Horns Band (FSNT,2014) e, a dieci anni di distanza, questo Disciplinary Architecture per la prestigiosa Sunnyside. Se nell'album precedente a farla da padrone erano naturalmente i fiati, e che fiati (Kirk Knuffke alla cornetta, Loren Stillman al sax alto, Jacob Garchik al ...

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Elsa Nilsson: Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina

Read "Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 3, 2024

Imagine someone coming up to you selflessly offering the gift of time--time to step away from the struggle; to hold a baby high--and that someone is flautist/composer Elsa Nilssonand she is playing her most translucent aria, “The Wind From The North Comes From The West" Some human endeavors are simply more beautiful than others. Nilsson, an active member of the downtown creatives and recipient of the 2022 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant stands alongside ...