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Amber Weekes: To Oscar With Love
by Jacob Sylvester
Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist Amber Weekes has returned with a remarkable new musical project that showcases her immense talent and deep appreciation for classic American jazz storytelling. To Oscar With Love serves as her fifth album release and continues her tradition of artistic excellence on her own Amber Inn Productions record label. Executive produced by Weekes ...
Dave Hanlon: Studio Sessions
by Jack Bowers
Once upon a time, movie trailers would sometimes promote their latest big-screen spectacle by ending with the phrase ..."and a cast of thousands!" Although Syracuse, NY-based drummer Dave Hanlon does not quite match that figure on Studio Sessions, he does use 24 musicians on its nine tracks, none of which encompasses a group that is larger ...
Roberto Magris: Broken Barriers
by Angelo Leonardi
Un'incisione live del 2008 dell'Europlane Quintet di Roberto Magris è inclusa tra i suoi cinque album inediti che la JMood Records ha pubblicato di recente. L'evento nasce per celebrare i vent'anni di sodalizio del pianista e compositore triestino con l'etichetta di Kansas City e comprende pregevoli registrazioni con Herb Geller (Come Lately), con Art ...
David Virelles: Creative Inspirations
by Mike Jurkovic
Though we can likely assume that any music brought to life by pianist David Virelles, with his uncanny ability to make even the most jagged improvisation sound like yesteryear's standard, bassist Reggie Workman, who at eighty-eight still plays like the young turk afire alongside John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard, and drummer Andrew Cyrille who, at ...
Idiotek: IDIOTEK
by Daniel Mège
One of the basic principles of physics holds that materials can respond to force in three ways: elastic (reversible), plastic (irreversible), or viscous (progressive over time). Combining all three, the possibilities are limitless and hard to master. IDIOTEK's material is mastered, and it explores the domain of viscoelasticity. Time stretches and contracts at the whim of ...
Henry Threadgill Zooid: Cut You Where You Was
by Dan McClenaghan
In 2001, Seth Rosner resurrected reed man Henry Threadgill's career by establishing Pi Recordings, initially for the sole purpose of releasing Threadgill recordings. Threadgill wanted to put out two albums simultaneously. Rosner said he would have agreed to four if that was what the artist requested. But two it was: Up Popped Two Lips by Henry ...
The Kris Davis Trio: Lost In Geneva
by Mike Jurkovic
Lost in Geneva begins in that spatial, metro-rush way a lot of pianist/composer/provocateur Kris Davis' excursions into the city do. But it soon skews into its own glacial swath, like many of Davis' excursions into the city. Ergo, “The Subtext," a fierce workout by any means or description and its successor, “Congestion Pricing," a study in ...
Matt Choboter: Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano
by Doug Collette
Conceived and executed as an extended aural narrative performed on a custom-built microtonal prepared piano, Matt Choboter's Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano radiates an orchestral air from its very inception via “Prologue." Intentional or not, the tones recall those of a child's music box, the plucked nature of which complements those bell-like ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Constellations and Hemispheres
by Mike Jurkovic
The listener is easily startled by Wadada Leo Smith. The man has an aura about him that emanates from some other place, some other time, when the rule of law was set in stone. A time not too long ago when collective aspiration held us all enthralled. And the man who carried that stone is none ...
Todd DelGiudice: Mas Alto
by Dan McClenaghan
It seems that every saxophonist at some point in their career decides to pare the music down to its essentials. It is hard to pare down beyond the sax, bass, and drums trio. The history of this musical setup is long. Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Sam Rivers, Lee Konitz and Joe Lovano (and so many more) ...
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