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Sarah Wilson: Incandescence
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo l'eclettico e multiforme Kaleidoscope, la trombettista e compositrice californiana presenta un nuovo progetto privilegiando alcuni elementi di quel lavoro, in particolare la dimensione della brass band. Il nuovo organico--Brass Tonic--vede una front line tutta femminile con l'aggiunta di Kasey Knudsen al sax contralto e Mara Fox al trombone, mentre la sezione ritmica comprende il chitarrista John Schott, la bassista Lisa Mezzacappa e due batteristi che si alternano nei brani: Jon Arkin e Tim Bulkley. Il progetto trae ...
Continue Reading...Ian Carey: Strange Arts
by Jack Bowers
Wood Metal Plastic is a septet that consists of a jazz quartet (trumpet, alto saxophone, bass, drums) and three-member string section presided over by San Francisco Bay area-based trumpeter Ian Carey, who wrote and arranged the material on his seventh album as leader, Strange Arts. It was recorded as a tribute to Carey's father, the innovative visual artist Philip Carey, who died in 2022. Aside from Carey, those in the quartet are alto Kasey Knudsen, bassist Lisa ...
Continue Reading...Ian Carey Quintet + 1: Fire in My Head: The Anxiety Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Ian Carey's Fire In My Head: The Anxiety Suite opens on a somber note, not with the sense of agitation that the album title suggests. The initial moments of the tune, “Signs And Symptoms," Part 1 of the suite, may initially be addressing the fatigue common to the malady, before his Carey's Quintet + 1 gradually turns up of the momentum in the direction of that anxiety, in manifestations from the leader's horn, followed by an on-edge turn by ...
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