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Pierrick Pedron: Cheerleaders
by Bruce Lindsay
Pierrick Pédron grew up in 1980s France listening to Neil Young and the super groups of rock, as well as to saxophone greats such as Charlie Parker and Cannonball Adderley. This combination of early influences can be clearly heard on the French alto saxophonist's third solo album, the fascinating and occasionally enigmatic Cheerleaders. ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi
by Mark F. Turner
About halfway through the aptly named “Killer," it becomes apparent that saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's Samdhi is up to something just a little different. Amid the track's impossible changes and blistering tempo, the saxophonist's alto undergoes acoustic-electric alterations that are processed through a laptop. Not that it was ever needed, but this embracing of technology, and other ...
Jan Johansson with Georg Riedel: in Hamburg
by Bruce Lindsay
Scandinavian jazz? It started with the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, didn't it? Well, no. It goes back many years further. As in Hamburg demonstrates emphatically, two early stars of Swedish jazz, pianist Jan Johansson and bassist Georg Riedel, could cut it with the best of the '60s jazz world, as instrumentalists and as composers. This beautiful album, ...
Leszek Mozdzer: Komeda
by Bruce Lindsay
Krzysztof Komeda, the Polish musician and composer who died, age 38, in 1969, was a key figure in the emergence of European jazz, and remains a major source of inspiration for musicians across the continent. On Komeda, his ACT solo album debut, pianist Leszek Możdżer pays his own beautifully crafted tribute to his fellow countryman.
Danilo Rea and Flavio Boltro: Opera
by Bruce Lindsay
Opera is a big art form: elaborate sets; high, occasionally overwrought, drama; large orchestras; and, of course, the singers. So what happens to this art form when almost everything is stripped away and the melodies are recreated by a simple duo of piano and trumpet? On the evidence of Opera, the first duo project from pianist ...
Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando partono le prime note di “My Favorite Things," un mondo di possibilità musicali sembra dischiudersi. La coreana Youn Sun Nah in un arrangiamento spoglio, suona la kalimba. E sguazza con la sua voce d'avorio come una falena triste tra le note dello standard di Rodgers e Hammerstein II. Pura magia. Un ostinato alla chitarra di ...
Tonbruket: Dig It To The End
by Bruce Lindsay
For its eponymous debut (ACT, 2010) , this band was called Dan Berglund's Tonbruket. It was a new outfit, the first new venture by a member of e.s.t. after pianist Esbjörn Svensson's death in 2008, pretty much an unknown quantity. For Dig It To The End, bassist Berglund remains as an emphatic presence, but the band ...
Nguyên Lê: Songs of Freedom
by AAJ Italy Staff
La fisionomia musicale di Nguyên Lê si è andata concretizzando, nel corso della sua carriera, più per accumulo che per sottrazione. Partito dal trio, vettore per un jazz raffinato e modernissimo, il chitarrista franco-vietnamita ha poi progressivamente ampliato l'orizzonte di riferimento, abbracciando - in un crescendo spesso irresistibile - la musica della sua tradizione d'origine, quella ...
Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr: Gravity
by Bruce Lindsay
Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr, trumpeter and keyboard player respectively, started their recording careers early. They recorded their debut, Remembering Chet (ACT, 2006), under the heading of Young German Jazz, when Julian was 17 years old and Roman was barely 21. Even though the brothers are still in their early and mid-20s the “Young" element of that ...
Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez: Chalaba
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo Kalimba e Out of the Desert, è questo il terzo CD del trio Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez edito dalla Act in cinque anni e non è insignificante il fatto che, come quello immediatamente precedente, esso sia stato prodotto dagli stessi musicisti, a dimostrazione di quanto essi credano nel loro sodalizio. Tutto ...
