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Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum
by Fred Bouchard
This magical debonair international trio reminds us once again of the porosity of walls between nations and fluidity of musical styles, as it flits through an enticing shadow world that recaptures Paris in the 1950s. Swedish Jan Lundgren's pointillist piano blends dreamily with Richard Galliano's poignant squeezebox and Sardinian Paolo Fresu's acerbic, haunted trumpet to raise ...
Alboran Trio: Near Gale
by John Kelman
Groups like e.s.t. and The Bad Plus have undeniably given the decades old piano trio format a much needed kick-in-the-ass but, as innovative as they've been and continue to be, some of their founding premises run the risk of inherent self-limitation. Still, despite e.s.t.'s ever-increasing pop sensibility and integration of electronics and sound manipulation, the extended ...
Alboran Trio: Near Gale
by Chris May
Since 1995, when they began recording for the ACT Music label, Sweden's Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.) has played a key role in rejuvenating the acoustic piano trio tradition, along with its audience. Svensson and his crew have liberated both from--or at least offered an alternative to--an overly familiar, standards-based repertoire and a precisely codified approach to ...
Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le: Fragile Beauty
by Mark F. Turner
Fragile Beauty is a continuing collaboration between Vietnamese-born singer Huong Thanh and guitarist Nguyen Le. This is their fourth album together, following works under Thanh's name with Le as the producer, co-composer and lead musician. Both are based in Paris--Thanh a well-known singer in popular, traditional and theatrical circles, and Le, a tremendous player who has ...
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by John Kelman
Despite the belief, in some corners, that jazz as an American form has to contain certain traditional and specifically cultural components in order to make it jazz, globalization has resulted in artists examining sources farther abroad to place in an improvisational context. The four year-old [em] brings an impressionistic European classicism to [em] 3, but in ...
Jan Zehrfeld's Panzerballett: Starke Stucke
by John Kelman
Those who bemoaned the breakup of the short-lived quintet version of mid-1990s group Lost Tribe which, along with saxophonist David Binney, bassist Fima Ephron and drummer Ben Perowsky, featured the twin guitar salvo of David Gilmore and Adam Rogers, will welcome the ACT debut of guitarist Jan Zeherfeld's Panzerballett. With a similar lineup, Panzerballett is as ...
Esbjörn Svensson Trio: e.s.t. Live in Hamburg
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trio di Esbjörn Svensson, dopo aver ricevuto un buon consenso di critica e pubblico nel paese d'origine, ha ottenuto la consacrazione internazionale nel 2001 quando, a Umbria Jazz, ha destato interesse e critiche al tempo stesso. Era l'epoca di Good Morning Susie Soho, cui avrebbero poi fatto seguito album altrettanto belli e mai ripetitivi. Oggi, ...
Paolo Fresu - Richard Galliano - Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il progetto si annuncia interessante e l'idea di mettere assieme un musicista nordico che solo ora si affaccia sulla scena internazionale come Lundgren (pianista svedese su cui la Act sta investendo parecchio e che quasi in contemporanea ha pubblicato Magnum Mysterium) a due mediterranei del calibro di Fresu e Galliano, è senz'altro avvincente. La mancanza di ...
Paolo Fresu: Mare Nostrum
by Chris Mosey
Italy's Paolo Fresu (trumpet), Frenchman Richard Galliano (accordion) and Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren get together to form what may well be the first Eurojazz supergroup. All have established their credentials playing with big names: Fresu with Carla Bley, Gerry Mulligan, David Liebman, Dave Holland, John Abercrombie, Jim Hall and Toots Thielemans; Galliano with George Mraz, Al ...
Heinz Sauer: The Journey
by AAJ Italy Staff
Album celebrativo, se così si può dire, degli oltre quarant'anni di attività di Heinz Sauer, splendido sassofonista, nonché uno di punti di riferimento del jazz tedesco. Scorrere cronologicamente il suo percorso musicale significa per molti versi analizzare anche le evoluzioni ed involuzioni del jazz teutonico degli ultimi decenni. Anche perché (e non potrebbe essere altrimenti), in ...
