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Gerry Hemingway with Izumi Kimura, Frank Gratkowski and Christian Weber: Live at Bau 4
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer and composer Gerry Hemingway has spent five decades proving that percussion can be as harmonically literate as any horn or keyboard. That reputation was forged during his decade with the Anthony Braxton Quartet and expanded through an expansive discography on labels including Auricle, Tzadik, Clean Feed, and Intakt. Now based in Switzerland, Hemingway continues to ...
The Scornful Four: Hopeful Music for Hopeless People
by Jack Kenny
This is an exciting and important album, though some of the language surrounding its release obscures more than it reveals. The term “scornful," for instance, hardly captures the evident musical concord here. What we hear instead is a group in genuine sympathy: cooperative, attentive, and fully committed to the shared purpose of the music.
Gerry Hemingway: Live at Bau 4
by Mark Corroto
Touch. It is the word that most often comes to mind when listening to the music of composer and drummer Gerry Hemingway. While rhythm and structure are central to his work, it is touch, the physical act of striking, rubbing, bowing, pressing and releasing that gives his music its distinctive character. Hemingway's performances do more than ...
Denny Zeitlin: Odyssey
by Pierre Giroux
Listening to Denny Zeitlin has often felt like accepting an invitation to the unknown. Zeitlin has never been content to simply play a tune. He probes it, turns it inside out, and often uncovers possibilities most musicians overlook. Odyssey reinforces that reputation. Although much of the material spans different periods of his career, the album never ...
Things of This Nature: Things of This Nature
by Alberto Bazzurro
Quartetto pianoless, come si dice, quello che firma questo album, che rivela immediatamente il pregio--la caratteristica, se vogliamo--di rifarsi a un jazz ampiamente storicizzato, però sapendo attualizzarlo attraverso tutta una serie di elementi. Il sound, in effetti, è quello di molti gruppi degli ultimi anni (forse decenni), un sound che predilige la progressione corale, entro un'architettura ...
Thelonious Monk: Monk Live In Paris 1967 Volume One
by Jack Kenny
This Paris concert formed part of a European tour organized by the impresario George Wein, who had previously presented numerous Thelonious Monk Quartet engagements. Seeking something different, Wein proposed an expanded ensemble. Monk was initially reluctant to depart from the quartet format and only agreed after considerable persuasion. Crucially, he retained artistic control: he selected the ...
GA20 with Charlie Musselwhite: Blues Now
by Doug Collette
The contemporary blues community is densely populated with posers long on affectation and short on authenticity. Not so GA20 or Charlie Musselwhite, for whom the blues speak truths that resonate in such a deep and abiding way, their respective musical expressions become truly personal statements. Boston-based trio GA20--fittingly named after a vintage Gibson amplifier--have ...
Chick Corea: Sometime Ago
by Mike Jurkovic
Everyone listening to Sometime Ago, a previously unheard deep dive into solo Chick Corea, is hereby pardoned and excused if at first Sometime Ago is mistaken for a previously unreleased (or unremembered) Keith Jarrett concert. Jarrett had just recently ventured into solo territory at the Stadthalle in Heidelberg, Germany in June of 1972. So the vibe ...
حمد [Ahmed]: Play Monk
by John Sharpe
Few contemporary bands dismantle Thelonious Monk's charts with either the conviction or the discipline displayed by حمد [Ahmed] on Play Monk. This double CD veers between primal throb and cerebral cool. Pianist Pat Thomas, alto saxophonist Seymour Wright, bassist Joel Grip and drummer Antonin Gerbal united around a shared affection for the work of pioneering bassist ...
Clark Sommers: WaBaSH
by Troy Dostert
An integral component of the Chicago-based jazz community, bassist Clark Sommers has honed his craft as a sideman with everyone from Kurt Elling to Jon Irabagon, with a multifaceted fluency that extends from mainstream jazz to more adventurous projects. And from time to time he also gets to flex as a leader, starting with his debut ...
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