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Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura
by Alberto Bazzurro
Parecchi archi, un sostanziale buon gusto che evita per lo più le bucce di banana insite nel contesto specifico e magari un tantino di epidermicità di troppo caratterizzano questo nuovo lavoro del polistrumentista (qui anche in sovraincisioni multiple, specificatamente nel breve “Perception") e compositore paulista-newyorchese Felipe Salles. Gli fa contorno un doppio quartetto, jazzistico ...
Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Boreal
by Dan Bilawsky
Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos and Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat are no strangers. The two first collaborated on a concert back in 2007. Then they joined forces in 2021 to explore Ornette Coleman's work. Now, continuing to develop their relationship, they bring Iberian ideals and modernity to the fore on Boreal. Sambeat is ...
Greg Murphy: Snap Happy
by Jack Bowers
A powerful and perceptive reading of Bronislau Kaper's “On Green Dolphin Street" sets the compass on Snap Happy, a splendid recording by pianist Greg Murphy's trio (and sometimes quartet) which is the New York-based artist's eighth album as leader of his own groups. To begin where the rubber meets the road, Murphy is ...
Paloma Dineli Chesky: Memory
by Richard J Salvucci
Sometimes a listener fixes on a particular version of a tune, especially on first hearing. The result can be good or simply limiting. Someone may never quite escape first exposure; it influences all subsequent experience. Some perhaps learned “Corcovado" when Miles Davis did it on Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1963). It may have been an odd choice ...
Keith Jarrett: New Vienna
by Mario Calvitti
Puntuale, con una cadenza all'incirca annuale, la ECM pubblica un nuovo inedito di Keith Jarrett, estraendo dai propri archivi la registrazione di un concerto tenuto dal pianista a Vienna nel corso del suo ultimo tour europeo del 2016. Con questo sono 4 i concerti da quel tour pubblicati ufficialmente, dei 5 complessivi (manca all'appello il solo ...
Andrea Ciceri Esatomic: Fisse
by Angelo Leonardi
Un debutto ricco e coinvolgente come questo sorprenderà chi non conosce ancora il suo leader ed i componenti del sestetto Esatomic. Il sassofonista Andrea Ciceri e i colleghi sono parte dell'area milanese più creativa: quella che va dai Nexus di Tononi e Cavallanti, all'orchestra di Dino Betti Van Der Noot, alla Artchipel Orchestra di Ferdinando Faraò, ...
Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short
by Doug Collette
After extended tenures on Warner Brothers and Nonesuch Records, saxophonist/composer/bandleader Joshua Redman debuted on the Blue Note jazz label in 2023 with Where We Are. And while its successor, Words Fall Short, is right in line with that record by featuring vocals, it initiates a new phase in the leader's career by showcasing his new quartet ...
Judy Whitmore: Let's Fall in Love
by Jack Bowers
Polymath Judy Whitmore has taken time away from her busy and productive career(s) to record her fifth album, Let's Fall in Love, and like the first four, it is a smooth and delightful tour of memorable themes from the Great American Songbook, sung with radiance and heart by one of the leading exponents of popular song ...
Nick Biello: New America
by Paul Rauch
Upon listening to alto saxophone virtuoso Nick Biello, a quote attributed to Charles Mingus may come to mind: “If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats." “Slow down," you might say, “Biello is not Bird, not even close--nobody is." But the quote relates to Biello in that he is far ...
Reddish Fetish: Llegue
by Jack Bowers
Once the opening number is discounted as an anomaly, Llegue (pronounced yeh-geh) is a generally pleasing debut recording by the New Jersey-based Reddish Fetish octet, led by drummer Jason Reddish and featuring the Jersey City All-Stars. Reddish Fetish is the fresh incarnation of a group established in the late 1960s by the leader's father, saxophonist Bill ...
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