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Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble: Parabólico: Reflections on Gilberto Gil, Volume 1
by Angelo Leonardi
La bandleader e arrangiatrice brasiliana Gaia Wilmer dedica la sua attenzione alle musiche di Gilberto Gil tornando a incidere con una grande orchestra. Nella sua decennale attività discografica hanno infatti prevalso i medi organici e solo per le musiche di Egberto Gismonti ha guidato un'ampia formazione (Folia 2023). Con venti musicisti a sua disposizione, compresa la cantante Mônica Salmaso, Gaia ha modo d'evidenziare le personali doti di scrittura in dinamiche orchestrali raffinate e ricche di colore. Le riletture del repertorio ...
Continue Reading...The Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra: Chronography
by Jack Bowers
On Chronography, Boston-based trumpeter and composer Greg Hopkins and his 16-member Jazz Orchestra revitalize ten of the leader's never-before-recorded compositions and arrangements, most of them well-known standards from the Great American Songbook, that span more than half a century of astute and perceptive songwriting. The earliest, Willard Robison's “Old Folks," was arranged for the Buddy Rich band in 1972; the most recent, Duke Ellington's “In a Sentimental Mood," for his own orchestra in 2018. Between those dates rest ...
Continue Reading...Lefteris Kordis: Mediterrana
by Franz A. Matzner
Jazz's ability to absorb new musical traditions and take advantage of novel instrumentation is one of its most notable features. Fans of this form of experimentation will appreciate pianist Lefteris Kordis' forays into merging jazz with traditional Greek and other Mediterranean lineages. Delivered as a series of piano trio plus guest artist compositions, Mediterrana's strength is the subtle blending of timbers Kordis deftly guides from behind the piano, and a consistently restrained approach which results in a refined ...
Continue Reading...Flutist Contemplatively Melds Latin American Folk Sensibilities With Modern Jazz Aesthetics On 'Strange Times'
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Outside in Music
The past four years have seen dramatic crests and troughs within society, from the dark lows at the heart of the global pandemic to the renewed sense of vigor and joy that has blossomed following the extinguishing of that crisis. Throughout these four years, musicians in particular have adapted and expressed themselves in newfound and creative ways, oftentimes speaking for broader groups by means of their personal experiences. Flutist Yulia Musayelyan is one such musician who, in the midst of ...
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Flutist 'Unsaid' Tastefully Combines Global Folk Traditions With Her Own Ingenuity To Leave An Irrevocable Mark On Modern Jazz
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Outside in Music
Flutist and composer Yulia Musayelyan is truly a global citizen, and her music reflects this multiculturalism with a brilliance flowing from her respectful and masterful synthesis of international folk styles as she carries them forward into the fold of modern jazz. Unsaid documents a decade of learning, creating, and refining as Yulia and her music have grown to become a powerful voice that is far greater than the sum of their constituent parts. Ten years passed since Yulia previously stepped ...
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From: Strange TimesBy Yulia Musayelyan
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From: UnsaidBy Yulia Musayelyan
