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Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles

Read "A Thousand Pebbles" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project is a group which incorporates sounds from all over the world. Gospel, Brazilian rhythms, European folk dances, and other kinds of music all mix freely with jazz in this exciting and unpredictable set. The horn players, trumpeter Wayne Tucker and reed players Jasper Dutz and Xavier Del Castillo, all do excellent work in realizing the leader's freewheeling concepts. “Bulgares" has Tucker's trumpet and Dutz's bass clarinet darting out in a whirling Bulgarian rhythm over ...

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Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles

Read "A Thousand Pebbles" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This is music for the open-minded. On A Thousand Pebbles, his fourth album as leader, New York-based pianist & accordionist Ben Rosenblum's seven-member Nebula Project traverses a number of musical landscapes, from Bulgaria to Brazil, Ireland to Israel, and realms beyond, offering a pleasurable smorgasbord of contemporary jazz that is always engaging and never shopworn. Rosenblum the composer wrote all of the album's eleven numbers save one, Antonio Carlos Jobim & Chico Baurque's melodious “Song of the ...

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Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles

Read "A Thousand Pebbles" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il giovane pianista e fisarmonicista (qui più la seconda della prima pelle, diremmo, almeno come incidenza sul sound d'insieme) newyorchese Ben Rosenblum firma con questo A Thousand Pebbles il quarto album a suo nome e il secondo alla testa del Nebula Project, sestetto (qui rinforzato da Xavier Del Castillo) versatile e capace di generare un clima solare e spesso festoso, intriso di umori latini e comunque popolari in senso lato (Rosenblum, che non di rado si sovrappone su entrambi i ...

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Kristin Berardi: The Light & The Dark

Read "The Light & The Dark" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Kristin Berardi è una jazz vocalist australiana con quindici anni d'esperienza professionale e una decina di dischi alle spalle, riconosciuta tra le migliori cantanti del suo Paese. Da qualche tempo s'è trasferita in Svizzera, dove nel 2006, agli inizi di carriera, ha vinto l'International Jazz Vocal Competition al Festival di Montreux. Dopo fantasiose prove come classica jazz singer, reinterpretando soprattutto standard (si ascoltino ad esempio gli ottimi Where or When del 2015 e Just as You Are ...

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Chris Pattishall: Zodiac

Read "Zodiac" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Per il suo debutto discografico Chris Pattishall ha scelto di reinterpretare la fondamentale e misconosciuta Zodiac Suite di Mary Lou Williams. Una prova che il pianista supera brillantemente alla guida del suo quintetto, in collaborazione col produttore Rafiq Bhatia. Nelle storie del jazz Mary Lou Williams viene ricordata soprattutto per le composizioni e orchestrazioni che scriveva per le orchestre di Andy Kirk, Benny Goodman (ricordate il contagioso “Roll ´Em"?) e persino Duke Ellington. Era un'artista geniale e ...

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Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings

Read "Kites and Strings" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Si parte con un episodio che potremmo definire post-bop, “Cedar Place," uno dei sette a firma di Ben Rosenblum, integrati da “Somewhere" di Leonard Bernstein, “Philadelphia" di Neil Young e un tradizionale bulgaro, ma in fondo è una falsa rivelazione, perché a seguire questa che è l'opera prima del giovane pianista e fisarmonicista newyorchese si sdipana su toni decisamente variegati, in cui il grande ceppo jazzistico è certo perfettamente avvertibile, ma i vari episodi sono più compositi, qua e là ...

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Chris Pattishall: Zodiac

Read "Zodiac" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This is pianist Chris Pattishall's take on Mary Lou Williams' “Zodiac Suite," an extended work that has been unjustly overlooked in jazz history. Williams originally recorded this suite in solo and trio format but Pattishall rearranges it for his quintet and adds subtle sound design touches by Rafiq Bhatia that enrich the depth and context of the music without radically changing it. This accounts for things like the rattling percussion in the middle of “Gemini" that breaks up ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

A Thousand Pebbles

Self Produced
2023

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The Light & The Dark

Earshift Music
2022

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Zodiac

Self Produced
2021

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Kites and Strings

One Trick Dog Records
2020

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Sifting Grace

Next Level
2019

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Implicit Attitude

From: A Thousand Pebbles
By Marty Jaffe

Izpoved

From: Kites and Strings
By Marty Jaffe

Kurinji

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

Prickly Pear

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

Climbing Ivy

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

Easy Peasey

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

Begin Again

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

Sifting Grace

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

Blanket Statement

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

Sifting Grace

From: Sifting Grace
By Marty Jaffe

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