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Randy Hoexter: Tomorrowsville
by Jack Bowers
Several words spring to mind when listening to the music of Atlanta-based composer, arranger and pianist Randy Hoexter. Colorful is one, wide-ranging is another. Not to mention creative, robust and well-ordered. Each of those traits and more are deftly combined in Hoexter's latest album, Tomorrowsville, on which he leads a high-grade ensemble through its paces on ...
Rodney Whitaker: Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Paul Rauch
In their fourth collaboration on Origin Records, bassist and bandleader Rodney Whitaker and Central Michigan composer Gregg Hill strike gold once again, backed by a formidable gathering of musicians. Hill's music has experienced a surge in interest due to his prolific releases on Origin, which have featured musicians in and around the impressive jazz faculty roster ...
Materical: Materical
by Neri Pollastri
Primo lavoro per Materical, quartetto privo di un leader e che perciò fa dell'interazione paritetica la cifra della propria musica, che si muove su atmosfere jazzistico-contemporanee, lontane dal mainstream e che mischiano libera improvvisazione e scrittura. I tre quarti d'ora di musica sono divisi in ben undici tracce, ma di queste otto sono composizioni ...
Daniel Levin, Fala Mariam, Sei Miguel: Panorama
by Alberto Bazzurro
Registrato a Lisbona fra l'ottobre 2022 (brani 4, 5 e 6, live, rispettivamente tromba sola, sordinata, violoncello solo, archettato, e duo tromba/cello) e l'aprile 2023 (tutto il resto, in trio e in studio), questo notevole album di libera improvvisazione ci rivela un retroterra che sarebbe il caso di dissodare con maggiore attenzione. Ne sono artefici il ...
Carl Allen: Tippin'
by Pierre Giroux
Drummer Carl Allen's release Tippin' is an opportune occasion, as it is Allen's first album as a leader in over twenty years. For this storytelling experience, Allen brought together two luminaries of modern jazz: the internationally renowned bassist Christian McBride and the phenomenal horn player Chris Potter. The trio created a cohesive and compelling narrative, resulting ...
Coleman Mellett: Sing You a Brand New Song
by Fran Kursztejn
If guitarist & singer-songwriter Coleman Mellett was “known" at all, it's for his brief yet exciting contributions to Chuck Mangione's ensemble. He played in Mangione's band between 1999 and the eve of his shocking death in 2009, along with 49 other passengers and crew members on the Colgan Flight 3047. His sensitive, versatile strumming challenged bandmates ...
Jon Irabagon: Server Farm
by Mike Jurkovic
Warning! Warning! Heads up! Spoiler alert! Server Farm has the potential to take your head to some random places. Some alarming (as all artists should be these days), Some cacophonous. Some claustrophobic. Others freeing, fleeting, fervent. Server Farm, saxophonist/composer Jon Irabagon's heatedly precise and prescient head-on clash with the threat of AI blisters the ...
The Sofia Goodman Group: Receptive
by Jack Bowers
Receptive is the third album as leader of the Sofia Goodman Group by Nashville, Tennessee-based drummer and composer Goodman, following 2018's Myriad of Flowers and 2023's Secrets of the Shore, both on Joyous Records. As on those earlier recordings, Goodman shows her compositional skills with a series of mostly meditative and personal themes designed to entice ...
Eddy Marcano: Onda Nueva
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un CD di soli ventisei minuti è una discreta anomalia, ove non si tratti di musica leggera. Già, ma questo nuovo album del violinista venezuelano Eddy Marcano non appartiene forse alla generosa e ampiamente ramificata congrega della musica leggera? Diremmo proprio di sì, e neppure quella che--stando a quanto dice Ivano Fossati in “Una notte in ...
Matt Pavolka: Disciplinary Architecture
by Vincenzo Roggero
Pur essendo da oltre vent'anni una presenza importante della scena newyorchese il bassista, trombonista, compositore Matt Pavolka ha pubblicato solo tre album a proprio nome: l'esordio di Something People Can Use (Toneofapitch, 2008), l'ottimo The Horns Band (FSNT,2014) e, a dieci anni di distanza, questo Disciplinary Architecture per la prestigiosa Sunnyside. Se nell'album ...
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