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Viktoria Tolstoy: Pictures Of Me
by Dr. Jeff Monroe
Since Norah Jones' gargantuan hit CD some years ago, the field of pop/jazz, folk/jazz, and R&B/jazz singers is getting crowded. Some may bemoan this jazz adulteration, but if it brings new listeners to the music it's all good. Charlie Parker was, after all, lambasted for ruining jazz with bebop. From Sweden comes 32 year-old Viktoria Tolstoy, ...
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen: The Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live
by Chris May
Like the British pianist Stan Tracey, the Danish bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen served a lengthy apprenticeship accompanying US stars playing the European club circuit. In the 1960s in London, Tracey was the pianist in the Ronnie Scott Jazz Club's house band, while Pedersen held down a similar gig at Copenhagen's Montmartre Jazzhus. Tracey and Pedersen benefited ...
Joachim Kuhn and Majid Bekkas with Ramon Lopez: Kalimba
by John Kelman
While it's easy to categorize the assimilation of diverse musical cultures as world music, the term has become over-utilized and often misrepresented. German-born pianist Joachim Kühn, Moroccan guimbri/oud player Majid Bekkas and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez intersect on Kalimba, an album that should dispense with oversimplified categorization. Instead, assessed on its own merits as an album ...
Nguyen Le: Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix
by John Kelman
Originally released in 2002 but only seeing release in the United States five years later, Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix--alongside welcome 2007 reissues of Miracles (Universal, 1990) and Zanzibar (Universal, 1992) and the more recently recorded Homescape (ACT, 2006)--provides an increasingly balanced picture of guitarist Nguyên Lê. He may be considered by most to be a fusion ...
Radio.string.quartet: Celebrating The Mahavishnu Orchestra
by John Kelman
A string quartet paying tribute to the high energy, high velocity Mahavishnu Orchestra of the early 1970s? An oxymoronic concept perhaps, but Veinnese radio.string.quartet's Celebrating The Mahavishnu Orchestra not only honors the spirit of the group, but proves that Mahavishnu Orchestra founder/guitar icon John McLaughlin's writing can provide plenty of grist for unexpected and challenging interpretations. ...
Radio String Quartet: Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lo stesso John McLaughlin, nelle note di copertina, rivela il proprio genuino stupore per l’esito di questo progetto dei quattro giovani musicisti mitteleuropei che compongono il Radio String Quartet. Sulla carta l’idea di un quartetto d’archi di estrazione classica alle prese con la musica della Mahavishnu Orchestra pare piuttosto improbabile. Eppure i risultati sono davvero interessanti. ...
Lars Danielsson & Leszek Mozdzer: Pasodoble
by John Kelman
In direct contrast to the ambitious musical scope of his Nu Jazz-ish Melange Bleu (ACT, 2006), Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson teams up with Polish rising-star pianist Leszek Możdżer for Pasodoble, an intimate series of duets that reflects both musicians' penchant for haunting lyricism and deceptive simplicity. While improvisation is a fundamental part of ...
Joachim Kuhn & Majid Bekkas with Ramon Lopez: Kalimba
by Chris May
Like the spectacular bouffant hairstyle he's sported since the 1970s, pianist Joachim Kuhn's music is at home in two, generally discrete traditions: intellectually rigorous, harmonically complex, longhair conservatoire music and a less cerebral strand of world jazz driven by vamps and grooves. Sometimes Kuhn keeps the two traditions apart--as on his classically oriented solo albums--at other ...
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.): Tuesday Wonderland
by John Kelman
For its first release to be distributed by a major label since Strange Place for Snow (Columbia, 2002), the Esöjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.) continues to mine and expand the road traveled on Seven Days of Falling (215 Records, 2004) and Viaticum (215 Records, 2005). Tuesday Wonderland doesn't exactly break new ground for e.s.t., but equally it's ...
Kevin Hays: Piano Works III: Open Range
by Andrew Rowan
Pianist Kevin Hays came to prominence in New York in the '80s, eventually working with such luminaries as Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and John Scofield, among others. In the '90s, he recorded a well-received series of sessions for Blue Note, including '94's Seventh Sense (one of the New York Times' ...
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