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PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone
by Glenn Astarita
Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak delivers a soulful homecoming via a love letter to Chicago with its debut, Someone to Someone. Ditching the tech-heavy sprawl of his earlier work like Server Farm (Irabbagast, 2025), the leader returns to Chicago's gritty roots with a lean acoustic quartet that is all heart and sly wit. Irabagon, a Chicago-born ...
Eleonora Strino Quartet: Matilde
by Alberto Bazzurro
Se cercate un disco “bello senz'anima" (fin dalla copertina, funzionale nonché sufficientemente ammiccante), con questo Matilde l'avete trovato. Vi agisce un quartetto con dentro almeno due elementi di vaglia (Corini e De Rossi) capitanato dalla chitarrista napoletana Eleonora Strino, attraverso otto brani tutti della leader (in un caso in comproprietà col pianista Vignali) a loro volta ...
Emma Hedrick: Newcomer
by Kyle Simpler
As long as there are songs, there will be singers to sing them, but there is a slight difference between a singer and a vocalist. Singers, no matter how talented, tend to remain in the foreground with the band in support. A vocalist, however, uses the voice as an instrument, becoming an integral part of the ...
Neil Charles Quartet: Dark Days
by Mark Corroto
In 2025, amid global unrest and political fracture, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom can feel like a distant dream, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech like a myth from a gentler past. Has social media, with all its noise and manipulations, induced a kind of societal amnesia? ...
Flavio Zanuttini, Zlatko Kaučič: Peace in Space
by Neri Pollastri
"Lo spazio sembra essere l'unico luogo dove le nazioni restano in pace qualsiasi cosa succeda sulla terra." Partendo da questa affermazione, posta a sottotitolo del disco, il trombettista friulano Flavio Zanuttini e il percussionista sloveno Zlatko Kaučič si avventurano in una passeggiata musicale nello spazio, sostando di volta in volta su satelliti--"San Marco1," “Granat," “Astron" --telescopi ...
Zlatko Kaućić: Zlatko Kaučič@70 - Inklings
by Neri Pollastri
Per celebrare il settantesimo compleanno di Zlatko Kaučič (di cui si parla nella recente intervista), avvenuto nel 2023, l'etichetta con cui il batterista sloveno ha pubblicato diversi suoi lavori negli ultimi anni, Fundacja Słuchaj, ha presentato questo cofanetto di quattro CD che documentano altrettanti concerti, tre dei quali registrati in occasione di diverse edizioni del Brda ...
Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections
by Vincenzo Roggero
Quartetto di grande pregio quello assemblato dal batterista e compositore Dan Weiss, con alcuni dei musicisti più in vista della scena newyorchese quali il trombettista Peter Evans, la vibrafonista Patricia Brennan e il chitarrista Miles Okazaki, già frequentati per anni in diversi contesti. Le otto composizioni, tutte a firma del leader, sono state scritte con questa ...
Juanjo López: Above, Beyond, Within
by Troy Dostert
In our troubling national moment of intensified nativism and ethnic fearmongering, it can be edifying to encounter the stories of people whose lives are directly affected by the current climate. One of them is Juanjo López, a guitarist now well-established in the Chicago scene but who came years ago to the United States with his family ...
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: Live Spirit I
by Scott Lichtman
The album Live Spirit I is a compelling listen from the Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet. The music combines the very best of free improvisation with sparse, piercing compositions and ethereal ambience. While the bassist/leader and most of his group live in Poland, this is truly a world-class performance. Wojtek Mazolewski's influence is already significant. His ...
The Brian Martin Big Band: Old Home/New Home
by Jack Bowers
Brian Martin, who as a working musician wears many hats--trombonist, composer, arranger, educator and band leader among them--has taken those hats from his native Iowa and given them a new mailing address in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. Which is a big deal. Big enough, at least, for Martin to have devoted much of Old Home/New Home, ...
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