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Kate Gentile, Swell / Tokar / Kugel & Richard Davis
by Maurice Hogue
Drummer Kate Gentile's new Find Letter X is extremely inventive and original--one of the best of the year and featured in this edition. The new em>For The People Of The Open Heart by trombonist Steve Swell, bassist Mark Tokar & drummer Klaus Kugel is another exceptional release. Also new and notable are pianist Satoko Fujii with a new trio called San, Dutch saxophonist Marike Van Dijk, pianist Piotr Rachon from Poland, bassist Jasper Hoiby's Earthness. Closing the show is a ...
read moreKate Gentile's New Opus, Music For Hi-Fi Bugs, David S. Ware
by David Brown
This week, an ambitious electro-acoustic release from drummer/composer Kate Gentile; big band works from Benny Carter, Pete Rugolo, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and Gard Nelssen; Ellingtonia from the '60s new thing, and finally a birthday remembrance of David S. Ware. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz from a historical perspective. Playlist Thelonious Monk Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:50 Kenny Barron Bud Like" ...
read moreMatt Mitchell: Oblong Aplomb
by John Sharpe
On Oblong Aplomb pianist Matt Mitchell pays homage to the drummers in his life. In a way, it can be seen as a follow-up to his debut Fiction (Pi Recordings, 2013). That album, a duet with stickman Ches Smith, originated from Mitchell's practice of warming up for gigs with Tim Berne's Snakeoil by running through a series of etudes he had written to warm up his pianistic muscles. Smith, a colleague in the band, began to play along and the ...
read moreSecret People: Secret People
by John Sharpe
Even though he doesn't appear on the album, the music of Secret People has an affinity with the warped precision of keyboardist Matt Mitchell. Perhaps not surprising as drummer Kate Gentile forms one half of the duo Snark Horse with Mitchell, who also plays on guitarist Dustin Carlson's leadership debut Air Ceremony (OOYH, 2019), as does the third member of this trio, alto saxophonist Nate Morgan. However this wily outfit is a collective, with the six compositions credited to the ...
read moreGabriel Zucker: Leftover Beats from the Edges of Time
by Vic Albani
Gabriel Zucker è un pianista, compositore e polistrumentista di New York il cui lavoro combina composizioni massimaliste con l'improvvisazione progressiva della scena musicale creativa contemporanea di New York. La sua musica ha ricevuto due importanti premi per la composizione e viene sempre più spesso citata con il massimo delle stelle su DownBeat. Il progetto principale di Zucker, l'orchestra indie jazz The Delegation," è nato al Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop. Il suo ultimo lavoro, Leftover Beats from ...
read moreDave Douglas: Engage
by Giuseppe Segala
Nella conduzione della propria etichetta indipendente Greenleaf Music, Dave Douglas ha sempre perseguito criteri di attenzione e rispetto verso lo scambio positivo tra esseri umani, ambiente, forme della convivenza. Composizioni dedicate all'azione positiva": così il trombettista definisce questo lavoro in dodici brani, facendo riferimento ai mesi dell'anno e alle tonalità musicali della tradizione occidentale. Un CD che si pone in diretta continuità con il precedente Uplift, pubblicato nel 2018, applicando gli stessi criteri programmatici, la stessa partizione in dodici brani, ...
read moreKate Gentile: Mannequins
by Hrayr Attarian
With the stimulating Mannequins, the New York based drummer Kate Gentile has created a cohesive and engaging album. On this first release under her own name, Gentile superbly balances emotive passion and intellectual acumen. Her intricate compositions are simultaneously fully realized and vibrantly supple and pliant as to allow for independent spontaneous expressions. The band's angular and crisp refrains build and intensely expectant ambience on the haunting Trapezoidal Nirvana." Pianist Matt Mitchell plays a crisp and resonant cascade ...
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