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Don Ellis: How Time Passes to Essence Revisited
by Angelo Leonardi
Nelle storie del jazz Don Ellis è ricordato principalmente per l'innovativa big band che guidò per un decennio, dalla metà degli anni sessanta. Questa preziosa riedizione ci rammenta i suoi inizi di carriera, quando esplorava nuove soluzioni a partire dalla tromba: accoppia il suo debutto in quartetto (...How Time Passes...) dell'ottobre 1960 con alcuni brani di ...
Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)
by Vincenzo Roggero
Musicista non ancora quarantenne, da noi poco conosciuto,Caleb Wheeler Curtis sassofonista, trombettista, compositore newyorchese, licenzia il suo album più ambizioso, un doppio CD che già dal titolo fa presagire qualcosa di assai lontano da un rassicurante mainstream. The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery, questo il titolo (ogni riferimento a Frank Zappa ...
Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days
by Dan McClenaghan
Making a living as jazz artist is a challenge. For every jazz megastar who can support his or herself with their music, dozens rely on day jobs and remain relative unknowns, even while making great music. Players like saxophonist Buck Hill, who did a forty-year stint working for the Post Office while releasing eleven excellent recordings--including ...
Eric Jacobson: Heading Home
by Jack Bowers
There is a sensible piece of advice known to every baseball batter that has been taken to heart by Milwaukee-based trumpeter Eric Jacobson's concerning his hard-hitting quintet: come out swinging. Which is precisely what happens on Heading Home, Jacobson's second (or perhaps third) recording as leader of his own ensemble, whose opening number, “Survival," proves beyond ...
Perceptions Trio: The Wicked Crew
by Doug Collette
It is a dark and spooky experience indeed to hear Perception Trio's The Wicked Crew for the first time. But the ethereal sensations grow rather than dissipate with repeated listenings, making for an all-encompassing, lasting impression. What may be most miraculous about the passage of this fifty-three minutes is the light touch each of ...
Billy Hart: Just
by Jack Kenny
"Just" is an elegant album calculated to please. More than any earlier releases on ECM, it is Billy Hart's album, The quartet has been working together for over twenty years and has rightly morphed from a collective to the one steered by Hart. The drummer has supplied his sinewy rhythmic mastery to albums across the years ...
Jacob Chung: The Sage
by Jack Bowers
On The Sage, his second album as leader, Canadian-bred saxophonist Jacob Chung lends credence to a speculative yet widely held belief that contempory jazz continues to grow and prosper north of the American border. Chung is no mere hobbyist, nor are his veteran helpmates --one of whom, alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, has been a force on ...
Lucas Apostoleris: It's Been Good
by Edward Blanco
Producing his third album as leader, Miami-based drummer Lucas Apostoleris delivers an engaging musical statement with the modern and contemporary jazz music of It's Been Good. On an album of all original compositions from the leader, Apostoleris demonstrates his abundant talents as a writer, providing creative and exciting musical moments throughout the session. This musician just ...
Sophie Lüssi - Sandra Weiss - Fridolin Blumer - Andreas Wettstein: Atlantic Puffin
by Glenn Astarita
AllAboutBirds.org describes the Atlantic Puffin as “a sharply dressed black-and-white seabird with a huge, multicolored bill, the Atlantic Puffin is often called the clown of the sea." This album finds the foursome gleefully tossing classical precision, folk whispers and improvisational bravado into a blender, hitting pulse until it is a cohesive, if occasionally slippery, ...
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life
by Doug Collette
As passionate as each man is intelligent, both pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith also manifest healthy egos. Accordingly, collaborations like Defiant Life require each man to contour his skills to complement the other sufficiently. Their shared humility is intrinsic to solidifying the inspiring bond that arises from the two not only playing, but ...
