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Clovis Nicolas: Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues
by Angelo Leonardi
Il contrabbassista Clovis Nicolas presenta dodici differenti interpretazioni del blues, interpretando in trio brani personali e temi appartenenti ad epoche e autori diversi: dai tradizionali “Abide with Me" e “Old Stack O'Lee Blues" a Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley e altri. Con lui sono Carl Allen alla batteria e ...
Rino Sivathas: Speak Volumes
by Daniel Mège
Which country has the highest proportion of outstanding drummers relative to its total population? A difficult exam question, but by rough estimate, the number of drummers in Norway (really a lot of them), relative to its population (really a small one), makes it an obvious contender. Those who follow the scene have heard of ...
Mike DiRubbo: Way Out Northwest
by Jack Bowers
Alto saxophonist and composer Mike DiRubbo, an acclaimed artist on the New York City jazz scene for more than three decades, traveled all the way to Vancouver, British Columbia, in October 2025 to record Way Out Northwest with a hand-picked all-Canadian rhythm section: pianist Tilden Webb, bassist Jodi Proznick and drummer Jesse Cahill. The ...
1984: The Forward Process
by John Sharpe
Straight from the first notes, reality blurs and form becomes fluid. On The Forward Process Belgian guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe turns a literary notion of time into a working musical system. He sets his guitar alongside French saxophonist Sakina Abdou and English turntablist Mariam Rezaei on cycles that rarely resolve in the conventional sense. Under the ...
Tony Williams Lifetime: Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency! Reference: With John McLaughlin & Larry Young
by Glenn Astarita
Tony Williams was barely twenty-three when he put the Lifetime trio together in 1969, only five years past his stint as the engine of the Miles Davis Quintet. Emergency!, the group's sprawling doublealbum debut, paired Williams with organist Larry Young and a littleknown British guitarist named John McLaughlin, and the record still stands as one of ...
Stephen Arnold & Sea Change: The Hitting Wall
by Jack Bowers
Although is difficult to pinpoint the precise thread that ties them together, bassist and composer Stephen Arnold envisions the 14 songs of The Hitting Wall as a suite, albeit one whose parts are at times more divergent than complementary, compositionally and in terms of groove. Arnold leads an able sextet whose horn section is ...
Michel Petrucciani / Dave Holland / Eliot Zigmund: Kuumbwa
by Jack Bowers
Michel Petrucciani was not blessed with a long life. What the French-born jazz pianist was blessed with was an enormous talent, one most people could not amass in several lifetimes. Petrucciani was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disease that led to brittle bones, stunted his growth and left him in almost constant pain--the ...
Spell//Hunger: Spell//Hunger
by Neri Pollastri
Da sempre molto interessato alla sperimentazione elettronica, il multistrumentista veneziano Piero Bittolo Bon ha da qualche anno messo a punto un sistema grazie al quale, attraverso l'utilizzo di sensori posti all'interno degli strumenti a fiato e a una serie di controlli, è in grado di manipolare elettronicamente il suono dei suoi sassofoni, trasformandone completamente il modo ...
Tabula Rasa Ensemble: Kum!
by Neri Pollastri
Prima uscita discografica per l'ensemble d'improvvisazione Tabula Rasa, formazione (peraltro mutevole) diretta da Stefano Battaglia, con la quale il pianista sta da alcuni anni coronando, a Siena, quell'opera di sviluppo, diffusione e insegnamento dell'improvvisazione iniziata trent'anni fa con il suo Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca Musicale. Kum! non è il primo dei lavori ...
John Shannon: A Day In Tarifa
by Joshua Weiner
Pittsburgh guitarist John Shannon began playing at age six, was performing around his hometown by his high school years, and has been recording with a variety of acoustic, rock and film music projects since 2008. A Day in Tarifa is his debut jazz album, and it lands firmly in the tradition, with a diverse and beguiling ...
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