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Tom Teasley: Wisdom - Tom Teasley Remembers Charles Williams
by Alberto Bazzurro
Testi tradizionali (africani, cherokee, ecc.) e per il resto soprattutto di Langston Hughes (ma ce n'è anche uno, “I Still Believe," di Martin Luther King), cantati o detti, costituiscono la spina dorsale, la fonte primaria, di questo singolare album, che riunisce (incisioni del 2022) Tom Teasley e Charles Williams, il primo anche autoproduttore del cd, che ...
ZurHub: Countryside Motorways
by Edward Blanco
Israeli flautist Mattan Klein and fellow Jerusalem native guitarist Ezequiel Hezi Jait, based in both Tel Aviv and New York, present a stunning musical portrait on Countryside Motorways, blending the rhythms of Brazil with Israeli folk and classical music while drawing influence from legendary composers such as Hermeto Pascoal and the incomparable Chick Corea. The co-leaders ...
Rodrigo Amado / Chris Corsano: The Healing
by Mark Corroto
Imagine the blank canvas that tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and drummer Chris Corsano set out to fill in this live recording from Lisbon, Portugal's ZDB in September 2016. Between them, they have nearly three hundred recordings and three times as many performances--an arsenal of sounds, textures, and ideas ready for deployment. Their orbits often intersect: Amado ...
Irene Schweizer - Rudiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink: Irène's Hot Four
by Glenn Astarita
Irène's Hot Four represents a significant posthumous release from the legendary Swiss jazz pianist Irène Schweizer, who passed away in 2024. This release captures a rare 1981 concert in Zurich featuring Schweizer alongside her companions Rüdiger Carl, Johnny Dyani, and Han Bennink. It is a quartet that existed for only around a year and a half, ...
Matteo Paggi: Giraffe
by Neri Pollastri
Estroso e giovanissimo trombonista emergente, membro dei Fearless di Enrico Rava, Matteo Paggi presenta in questo disco il suo quintetto “in progress," Giraffe, in due diverse versioni: quella più recente, registrata in Italia nell'autunno dello scorso anno e includente due connazionali --Lorenzo Simoni al sax contralto e Andrea Carta alla batteria --e due orientali --la giapponese ...
Russ Johnson: To Walk On Eggshells
by Glenn Astarita
Russ Johnson, a Chicago-bred trumpeter with a knack for adventurous jazz, joins forces with Swiss bassist Christian Weber and drummer Dieter Ulrich, both stalwarts of the Zurich jazz scene. Johnson's resume boasts collaborations with everyone from Lee Konitz to his own genre-bending Russ Johnson Quartet, while Weber and Ulrich have carved out reputations as nimble improvisers, ...
Miguel Zenon: Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard
by Doug Collette
Suffused with shadows as is the cover photo of Vanguardia Subterranea, it is a perfectly appropriate match for the title of the Miguel Zenon Quartet's first live album. Released in celebration of the ensemble's 20th anniversary, both the image and the music favorably hearken to the displays of healthy improvisational jazz behind graphic designs for vintage ...
Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph
by James Taylor
International Anthem is a fitting home for the first Chicago Underground Duo album after an 11-year hiatus. The Chicago-based and buzzworthy label has carried the torch for avant-garde sounds in the city since 2014, and trumpeter and composer Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor are no strangers to the label's catalog, performing together on multiple IARC ...
Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts
by Vic Albani
Riconosciuto ormai da anni quale uno dei migliori musicisti tedeschi in circolazione, Michael Wollny, schivo pianista nato nella primavera del 1978 a Schweinfurt (Baviera, Bassa Franconia) ma residente ormai da anni a Lipsia dove è professore alla Hochschule für Musik und Theater, regala con questo Living Ghostsuna sorta di summit di almeno un decennio di lavoro ...
Alex Harding, Lucian Ban: Blutopia
by Neri Pollastri
Il pianista Lucian Ban e il sassofonista baritono Alex Harding, assidui collaboratori dalla fine degli anni Novanta, riuniscono qui un quintetto di stelle per interpretare una musica assai diversificata di brano in brano e la cui sintesi è forse espressa da una citazione del filosofo Ibn Al-Arabi riportata nel libretto, la quale celebra il movimento quale ...
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