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Deirdre Cartwright: Organik
by Neil Duggan
Multi-award-winning guitarist Deirdre Cartwright returns 15 years after her previous release with Organik. Far from relaxing in the intervening years, she has been collaborating widely, performing with the Alison Rayner Quintet, winning the public vote for Best Guitarist at the 2019 British Jazz Awards and authoring several guitar tuition books. The album points towards ...
John Clayton: The Two-o Duo Project
by Pierre Giroux
The album the two-o duo project, a collaboration between bassist John Clayton, vocalist René Marie and pianist Gerald Clayton, quietly draws the listener into their world through intimacy, trust and a shared musical understanding. Rooted in the art of duo playing, the album expands naturally into trio performances, creating a gathering of old friends discovering music ...
Brian Landrus: Just When You Think You Know
by Angelo Leonardi
Non si può eccellere ogni volta. Dopo il superlativo Plays Ellington & Strayhorn Brian Landrus presenta un album meno palpitante ma sempre d'alto livello. Affermato polistrumentista della timbrica grave, Landrus privilegia in questo disco l'uso di sax tenore, flauto soprano e contralto agli strumenti che l'hanno reso famoso: il sax baritono. il clarinetto basso e il ...
Allison Cameron & Scott Thomson: Platanus
by Glenn Astarita
Toronto composer, performer, and improviser Allison Cameron has carved out a distinctive niche in Canadian new music since the mid-1980s, her work marked by an instrumental kaleidoscope and gentle waywardness that tends to elude quick summary. Born in Edmonton and trained at the University of Victoria and York University, she settled in Toronto in 1989, eventually ...
Ben Patterson: Stretch
by Jack Bowers
It is no Stretch to note that Ben Patterson is a superb jazz trombonist or that his latest recording paints an impressive picture of his talents as a composer and arranger as well as a player and leader of a world-class quintet. Patterson, a former music director of the U.S. Air Force's flagship big ...
Neves e Silva: Ladeiras de Santa Teresa
by Katchie Cartwright
Ladeiras de Santa Teresa opens with a big polymetric beat and powerful brass and percussion up front. You might flash on the Afro-Bahian sound of Letieres Leite's Orkestra Rumpilezz. The groove shifts suddenly, releasing into a jazz feel; Brazilian jazz that is, not swing or bebop, though Charlie Parker's “Star Eyes" with intro serves as a ...
Federica Michisanti: Life on Art
by Neri Pollastri
Non sbaglia un colpo Federica Michisanti, la contrabbassista e compositrice romana che un paio d'anni fa sbancò i referendum nazionali incantando le giurie con Afternoons, il disco del suo quartetto “francese," che la vedeva accanto a musicisti del calibro di Louis Sclavis, Vincent Courtois e Michele Rabbia. Già allora stava lavorando, su commissione del centro d'arte ...
Simone Basile: Perspectives
by Marco Iacoboni
C'è una soglia, nella vita di ogni musicista, oltre la quale la tecnica smette di essere un traguardo e diventa semplicemente il linguaggio con cui si parla. Simone Basile, chitarrista pugliese di trentasei anni, quella soglia l'ha attraversata con Perspectives, e lo ha fatto nella forma più essenziale e spietata che il jazz conosca: il guitar ...
Sebastian Plano: Solo
by Neil Duggan
Unaccompanied non-classical cello albums are relatively rare, primarily because the cello is traditionally a supporting ensemble instrument. Although rooted in contemporary classical language, Sebastian Plano embraces a more exploratory approach, enhancing his compositions with moments of intuition and improvisation, which may be of interest for listeners looking for something away from the jazz mainstream.
GEORGE: Looking for Consonance
by Glenn Astarita
John Hollenbeck has spent much of the past three decades blurring the boundaries between jazz, chamber music and improvisation. A Grammy-nominated composer and bandleader known for his work with the Claudia Quintet and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, he enters a new chapter with an electro-acoustic ensemble named after George Floyd. Its debut recording, Letters to ...
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