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Mario Mariotti Quartet: Live at Angelica
by Neri Pollastri
Trombettista milanese di formazione classica, Mario Mariotti è costantemente alla ricerca di nuovi modi di coniugare questo ambito della musica, che tuttora frequenta con continuità, con quello jazzistico, che ha amato fin da giovane e che pratica sempre più spesso, come ha avuto modo di dirci nella recente intervista. In questo disco lo troviamo ...
Albert Ayler: Live Greenwich Village to Love Cry Revisited
by Giuseppe Segala
Nel 1996, quando fu pubblicata la prima edizione della sua biografia dedicata ad Albert Ayler, Spirits Rejoice!, il contrabbassista e musicologo tedesco Peter Niklas Wilson scriveva nella prefazione: “La sua musica resta controversa: per alcuni fu un profeta, per altri un ciarlatano. (...) Ayler resta oggi tanto controverso quanto esile è la base per una discussione ...
Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet: Sax QT (Lorraine) 2022
by Alberto Bazzurro
A mezzo secolo esatto dal suo primo esperimento in materia, la “Composition 23A" (rombo-30-EGN-KBM-78, secondo la connotazione grafica tipica delle pagine braxtoniane dell'epoca, che qui non possiamo per ovvi motivi riprodurre nella sua completezza) datata fra il 27 settembre e il 16 ottobre 1974 e riunita poi con altre cinque di diversa natura in New York, ...
Out Of/Into: Motion I
by Mike Jurkovic
Most supergroups happen and barely dent the dust. Despite those odds, one or two happen for a reason. That reason is Motion I by Out Of/Into. Formerly known as The Blue Note Quintet--pianist Gerald Clayton, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, vibraphonist Joel Ross, drummer Kendrick Scott, and bassist Matt Brewer--hijack the lead track “Ofafrii" with a brazen romp of ...
Derek Bailey Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness
by John Sharpe
English guitarist Derek Bailey was a regular visitor to Japan, where he was particularly appreciated. Audiences were such that after his first tour in 1978, he reportedly brought home the money to buy a car. As a consequence, he encountered many of the major figures on the country's free improvisation scene, as releases such as Duo ...
Sue Rynhart: Say Pluto
by Ian Patterson
Traditionalist or avant-garde provocateur? Singer or poet? Dubliner Sue Rynhart is all these things and more, and therein lies her appeal. Her debut, Crossings (Songs For Voice And Double Bass) (Self Produced, 2015), an alluring duo recording with Dan Bodwell, earned Rynhart broad critical acclaim for its hybrid folk, indie pop, spoken word and jazz/improvised spirit. ...
Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn
by Jack Bowers
When gathering material for a new recording, one time-honored rule of thumb is that it is hard to stray too far off course when revisiting the musical handiwork of renowned composer Duke Ellington and/or the Duke's virtuosic alter ego, Billy Strayhorn--even if one chooses to lead with an Ellington theme as relatively unknown as “Agra" from ...
Spencer Zweifel: The Life or Death Situation
by La-Faithia White
Spencer Zweifel is an accomplished jazz pianist who graduated in 2019 with a degree in jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado. He won best pop/rock soloist in the 2018 Downbeat magazine student awards. In 2021, Spencer completed a master's in jazz studies at William Paterson University, where he studied with Bill Charlap, Aaron Diehl ...
Charles Tolliver Music Inc.: Live at the Captain's Cabin
by Pierre Giroux
Charles Tolliver's Live at the Captain's Cabin is a previously unheard two-CD set captured at an intimate venue in Edmonton, Alberta, on June 24, 1973, produced for release on Reel to Real Recordings by tenor saxophonist and jazz entrepreneur Cory Weeds. The synergy and spontaneity heard in this session can only come from a group accustomed ...
Jon Gordon: 7th Ave South
by Jack Bowers
Some of life's moments, even when buried in the past, remain almost as fresh and memorable as today's. Such is alto saxophonist Jon Gordon's memory of his first visit to New York City's then-jazz center, Greenwich Village's 7th Avenue South, which was “the first place [he] ever heard live jazz in New York." That was in ...
