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Kresten Osgood Quintet: Live At H15 Studio
by Mark Corroto
For a reader of contemporary fiction, sometimes you wade through some fine literature with skillful writing by authors who have honed their craft but have failed to give you a plot. Then, some books tell stories that seize your imagination. You can't put them down. There is a parallel occurrence in modern jazz. There are virtuous ...
Café: Café
by Richard J Salvucci
Reviewing an archival album is always a challenge. To do something justice is a matter of both gaining and losing perspective: to hear it as an audience first did, and then, presumably, to find its influence, if consequential. Verifying a band's authenticity is usually not difficult but Café presents just such a problem. Its single release ...
Daniel Sommer / Arve Henriksen / Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences
by Nenad Georgievski
Danish drummer Daniel Sommer's Sounds & Sequences is the second part of his Nordic Trilogy, a captivating project that aims to explore the breadth and depth of Nordic improvisation across three distinct ensembles. This follow-up to As Time Passes continues Sommer's commitment to presenting different facets of Nordic music, while avoiding any repetition of sound or ...
B.B. King: In France: Live At The 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival
by Ian Patterson
By the time B.B. King arrived in France in the autumn of 1977 he could already reflect upon a good year. After a string of misfiring crossover albums, the Indianola blues musician had returned to studio form with the mostly straight-ahead blues of King Size (ABC, 1977). An invitation to Yale saw King become only the ...
Tiziano Tononi, Emanuele Parrini: Other Interactions... On July 5th
by Neri Pollastri
Non sbagliano un colpo Emanuele Parrini e Tiziano Tononi: forti di mille collaborazioni, dopo The Many Moods of Interaction, il loro lavoro in duo di un paio di anni orsono, adesso allargano le interazioni e la formazione, accogliendo il contrabbasso di Andrea Grossi, il sax soprano di Roberto Ottaviano e il trombone di Steve Swell, regalandoci ...
Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 1
by Alberto Bazzurro
Aperto e chiuso da brani a firma di due dei compagni di viaggio di Gato Barbieri in questo inedito (in studio, il che ha del sorprendente) della primavera 1968, rispettivamente Giovanni Tommaso e Franco D'Andrea, il disco in oggetto è innegabilmente pervaso dall'ombra lunga di Miles Davis (i due temi-cardine di Kind of Blue, più “Nardis" ...
Bill Laurance and Michael League: Keeping Company
by Neil Duggan
Bill Laurance is one of the UK's most inventive pianists. His compositions and arrangements have involved multiple formats, including trios, duos, orchestras and solo piano, but he is best known as a member of the 19-piece jazz-funk-fusion ensemble Snarky Puppy. He joined the band at the invitation of their founder, U.S. multi-instrumentalist Michael League. They have ...
Wayne Alpern: Gotham
by Jack Bowers
There are a number of bright and interesting moments on New York-based arranger Wayne Alpern's album, Gotham, wherein he makes good use of a well-polished tentet on several generally handsome and engaging charts. Alpern's choice of music is eclectic, ranging from Tchaikovsky to Jobim, Rodgers and Hart to Stephen Sondheim, Hoagy Carmichael to Horace Silver, Alex ...
Kirsten Carey and Aaron Edgcomb: Mature Defense Mechanism
by Hrayr Attarian
Guitarist Kirsten Carey and drummer Aaron Edgcomb are both genre defiers with unique and highly personal styles. Both thrive in improvised settings, as their work is seeped in spontaneity. Conceived during the COVID 19 pandemic, Mature Defense Mechanism consists of 11 tracks, each carrying a wallop. The album was recorded while the artists were in different ...
The Necks: Bleed
by Rob Garratt
There is a diverting theory that modernist developments in the visual arts were mirrored in the evolving language of jazz: the rigid melodies of classic swing analogous with the formal representation of realism; the harmonic blurring of modalism an impressionistic step towards ambiguity; and the breakdown of order that came with free jazz the divisive audio ...
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