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Lafayette Gilchrist: Move With Love
by Vincenzo Roggero
New Volcanoes è una delle creature musicali che rappresentano al meglio la visione musicale di Lafayette Gilchrist, pianista e compositore nato a Washington, D.C. nel 1967, a lungo nelle formazioni di David Murray, nuovo pianista nell'ultima Sun Ra Arkestra, grande conoscitore della cultura hip-hop, apprezzato autore della colonna sonora per l'acclamata serie televisiva The Wire.
Atlantis Quartet: Live at Berlin
by Glenn Astarita
Naming a debut live album after the venue itself is a bold move, proclaiming the music and space as one. With Live at Berlin, recorded during the opening week of Minneapolis' newest jazz haunt in February 2024, Atlantis Quartet--saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, guitarist Zacc Harris, bassist Chris Bates, and drummer Pete Hennig--does not merely make the case; ...
High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland
by Jack Bowers
Long before Bird (Charlie Parker), Diz (Dizzy Gillespie), Prez (Lester Young), the Count (Count Basie) or the Duke (Duke Ellington) raised their voices, jazz was being performed, for audiences large and small, in New Orleans and other cities and towns along the Mississippi River and elsewhere, lending those yet to come the bedrock from ...
Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt | Thirst
by Dan McClenaghan
Listening to Finish guitarist/oudist Jussi Reijonen's Sayr: Salt | Thirst without delving into his rich backstory is a journey into two extended solo guitar pieces that play out as ruminative dream states. Concentrating on just the sound, images of Lightnin' Hopkins might come to mind: the bluesman huddled down in a small, dim hotel room after ...
Zack Lober: So We Could Live
by Marco Iacoboni
Zack Lober torna con un lavoro che alza l'asticella dell'attenzione su uno dei musicisti più interessanti dell'attuale scena jazz contemporanea. Il contrabbassista canadese, da anni residente in Olanda, presenta un quartetto chordless in perfetta continuità con la tradizione ma animato da una spinta moderna, a cavallo tra le sonorità newyorchesi e quelle europee.Il riferimento ...
Tom Ollendorff: Where In The World
by Neil Duggan
Since 2021, guitarist Tom Ollendorff has been evolving his sound over two promising albums. Where In The World marks a flowering of his talent, showing sophisticated playing and refined composing. Some of the impetus for this progression stems from his first collaboration with pianist Aaron Parks, whose style forms a natural synergy with Ollendorff's and proves ...
Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue
by Jack Bowers
Alice Blue is a pleasant, no-frills session neatly performed by Ravita Jazz, a co-op sextet (or quintet plus vocalist) from Maryland whose presumed overseer is bassist Phil Ravita, as his is the only name that coincides with the name of the group as a whole. Ravita also wrote half of the studio date's ten numbers, all ...
James Danderfer: If Not Now
by Pierre Giroux
Clarinetist James Danderfer's If Not Now showcases warmth and craftsmanship. It is the kind of album that affirms jazz's enduring ability to blend tradition with personal expression. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's legendary Englewood Cliffs studio on November 4, 2024, the album features a select group including Steve Davis on trombone, Cory Weeds on tenor saxophone, ...
Gabriele Comeglio: The Journey
by Angelo Leonardi
In un ruolo più appartato rispetto a jazzisti italiani della generazione precedente, divenuti celebri anche al grande pubblico, Gabriele Comeglio ha svolto continuative esperienze anche nella musica leggera, producendo ed orchestrando numerosi dischi di Mina, collaborando con Battiato, Dalla, De Gregori, Daniele, Antoniacci e altri, scrivendo musiche per teatro, cinema e televisione. La sua ...
Rafael Toral: Traveling Light
by Fran Kursztejn
Jazz has a difficult time wrestling with its own history. All genres do, but jazz, specifically in the lethargic modern era, cannot but find itself somewhat directionless. Rock, pop, and electronica all advertise their frontrunners as “the next big thing" or “revolutionary," or otherwise contain a je ne sais quoi found nowhere else but in the ...
