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Trish Clowes: Try Me
by Ian Patterson
With Try Me saxophonist-composer Trish Clowes joins a starry cast of artists inspired by London--its history, architecture, landscape and multi-cultural streets. From William Blake to Benjamin Zephaniah, from Charles Dickens to Hanif Kureishi, from Ralph Vaughan Williams to The Kinks, and from Claude Monet to the late David Hockney, England's capital has fed the creative spirit ...
Sanifu Hall & Cosmos Dwellerz Arkestra: These Are The Times
by Andy Crowther
Without paying attention to sleeve notes, you could be a fan of the Black Jazz record label and their run of funky yet deep releases of the 1970s, and miss the fact that trombonist Sanifu Al Hall Jr. both played and wrote on albums from Doug Carn, Henry Franklin, and Chester Thompson. If you like golden ...
Slow Tiger: Slow Tiger
by Max Kutner
Listening to the music of Slow Tiger is akin to an encounter with an enormous, saturated rainbow. Their self-titled debut recording offers a kaleidoscopic palette of sonic color and otherworldly energy that remains endlessly fresh and nuanced. It is handily one of the best releases this year and yet another gem to come from the burgeoning Endectomorph label ...
Antonio Adolfo: Balaios
by Katchie Cartwright
Antonio Adolfo draws a parallel between balaios, the baskets that African Brazilian women have carried on their heads for centuries, and musical albums. “Each piece is placed carefully inside, shaped by the moment in which it was born, yet carried into the present with renewed meaning," he says. He speaks of Balaios as a gathering of ...
Anton Roolaart: The Ballad of General Jupiter
by Glenn Astarita
Dutch American multi-instrumentalist Anton Roolaart has inhabited the progressive rock world long enough to have earned his credentials, having spent more than a decade championing artists from Van der Graaf Generator to Camel through his streaming station, ProgRockRadio. His album The Plight of Lady Oona (Self-Produced, 2014) featured collaborations with Renaissance vocalist Annie Haslam and confirmed ...
Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble: Non-Places
by Neil Duggan
Non-Places is a large ensemble project from the Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble, led by Italian composers Anna Bignami and Laura Veltri. Their nonet, consisting of six horns and a piano trio, brings together some of the leading musicians from the Danish jazz scene. Blending composition, improvisation and slight electronic elements, the group takes influences ranging from ...
Stephen Guerra: Um Violão na Cidade Maravilhosa
by Katchie Cartwright
Buffalo-based guitarist-songwriter and professor Stephen Guerra's notation has developed a slight Brazilian accent. You notice it in small things like a major chord symbol with a capital “M." Who is reading these charts? Musicians in several choro communities around the globe, as it turns out. Take “Um Negocinho pro Tito," (track 9). Guerra first ...
Tomos Williams: Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy
by Ian Patterson
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. So it has proven for Welsh trumpeter-composer Tomos Williams, whose intended one-off album Cwmwl Tystion / Witness (Tŷ Cerdd, 2019) unwittingly became the first installment of a trilogy charting Welsh identity, history and internationalism. Realizing there were still important stories to tell, Cwmwl Tystion II: Riot! (Tŷ Cerdd, 2021) picked ...
Jeff Lederer: There's a Yearnin'
by Jerome Wilson
Jazz and classical music have been intersecting for decades. One of the most prominent examples of this was the Third Stream movement of the sixties, where composers and musicians like Gunther Schuller and John Lewis encouraged the efforts of jazz musicians who wanted to experiment in the world of classical music. The music created through the movement ...
Joey Alexander: Celestial Keeper
by Doug Collette
Joey Alexander may no longer qualify as a prodigy, but his skills as a pianist and composer remain prodigious. The bell-like clarity of the notes ringing out at the outset of “Bemused (solo improv 1)" augurs as much for Celestial Keeper as it does for the now 22-year-old, who follows suit throughout the album.
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