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Album Review

Trio HLK: Anthropometricks

Read "Anthropometricks" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Albums featuring standards are fairly common. Trio HLK start with this approach and then bend and invert it to create their own musical dialect. All seven compositions on Anthropometricks use sections of jazz standards as their base. The trio then put these ingredients through their version of a musical blender to create something unique. As pianist and composer Richard Harrold says “Each piece is new but shards of the original can be glimpsed within." He does mean shards; these are ...

Album Review

Evelyn Glennie, Jon Hemmersam, Szilárd Mezei, M.J. Stevens: The Core-tet Project

Read "The Core-tet Project" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Quattordici improvvisazioni di durata varia (da poco più di un minuto a quasi nove) compongono questo album dagli esiti abbastanza diversificati. La partenza, e tutta la prima parte, regalano in effetti momenti degni di attenzione, costruzioni non banali, anche ricche (a tratti), diremmo ispirate. Col trascorrere dei brani, tuttavia, viene un po' a mancare non tanto l'elemento sorpresa, quanto proprio momenti capaci di tener viva l'attenzione in quanto tale. Non è neanche tanto un fatto di ripetitività di situazioni già ...


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