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Piero Bittolo Bon: Spell//Hunger
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Piero Bittolo Bon is a versatile improviser, excelling across all styles of creative music. His band mate of over a decade, the equally masterful drummer Andrea Grillini, is, like Bon, a restless experimenter. Together, they formed the genre-defying duo, Spell//Hunger. Their eponymous album consists of 11 spontaneous pieces that are more akin to abstract soundscapes than melodies with ...
Pierluigi Balducci, Badrya Razem: Kosmos & Chaos
by Neri Pollastri
Due quintetti diversi, caratterizzati però entrambi dalla voce di Badrya Razem e dal basso elettrico di Pierluigi Balducci, a interpretare la musica di quest'ultimo (oltre a un paio di selezionatissimi omaggi) con grande diversità timbrica: questo il progetto di Kosmos & Cahos, registrato tra il novembre e il dicembre del 2024 e uscito quest'anno ...
Gangbé Brass Band: From Ouidah To Another World
by Ian Patterson
Gangbé Brass Band, more than many groups, embodies the hybrid nature of jazz. From Ouidah to Another World, the Beninese ensemble's sixth album since forming in the late '90s, is a swashbuckling fusion of New Orleans-style brass bands and Beninese rhythms. And with jazz, it was ever thus. The jazz creation story may mythologize New Orleans ...
Bruce Williams: Solid Perspective
by Jack Bowers
Alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, who doubles as composer, triples as arranger and quadruples as vocalist on one number, brings enviable creds to Solid Perspective, his fifth recording as leader of his quartet. Williams has worked steadily since leaving his native Washington, DC, for New York City, where he has remained for more than two decades, performing ...
Seamus O'Muineachain: Island of Flowers
by Geno Thackara
A Seamus O'Muineachain recording is part tone poem and part daydream. It mostly consists of notes and melodies, but those ingredients are no more or less important than shimmering drones or stray nature sounds. This is an emotionscape drawn from life. The music is not in the notes but the whole experience, crafted with a slow ...
The Joshua Breakstone Quartet: Wonderful!
by Neil Duggan
This is a reissue of Joshua Breakstone's debut as leader. The recording, which has been out of print for nearly 40 years, dates back to 1984, when the guitarist was 27 years old. It also marks the first time the recording has been available on CD. While many guitarists of a similar vintage built ...
Simon Rose, et al.: One Voice
by Mark Corroto
What is more American than jazz? Historians generally agree that the music was born in New Orleans, forged from African musical traditions, European harmony and Caribbean rhythms. Alongside jazz, baseball and basketball are among America's great cultural inventions. Yet today, none of these belongs solely to the United States. Japan captured the imagination of baseball fans ...
Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen: Windflower
by Frank Housh
Ayumi Tanaka's Windflower uses Nordic jazz's musical vocabulary against an ancient Japanese landscape, creating depth and beauty by the space left empty. Tanaka is a Japanese pianist and composer for whom Norwegian jazz feels “very personal," explaining how it “made the air feel alive." She was determined to figure out how. She moved to Norway ...
Aubrey Johnson: The Lively Air
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo il notevole debutto di Unraveled (Outside in Music, 2020), penalizzato nella diffusione dalla tempesta pandemica, Aubrey Johnson ritorna alla testa di un proprio ensemble, in cui va oltre il ruolo di cantante accompagnata ma è parte integrante delle dinamiche strumentali, nonché autrice di metà del repertorio. Dal passato organico ritroviamo solo il violinista ...
Giacomo Ganzerli: The Art of Leaving Blankness
by Neri Pollastri
Pregevole album d'esordio per il batterista Giacomo Ganzerli, alla testa di un trio completato da due interessantissimi musicisti quali sono il chitarrista Michele Bonifati, che negli ultimi anni abbiamo trovato in numerosi lavori di pregio, e il tenorsassofonista Daniele Nasi, recentemente apprezzato in un altro album pubblicato, come questo, da Nusica.org, Coglians del trio PduRN.
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