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Elsa Martin, Flavio Zanuttini: AER
by Neri Pollastri
Ricercatori del suono, improvvisatori, sperimentatori di atipici incroci tra musica e poesia, Elsa Martin e Flavio Zanuttin presentano la prima documentazione registrata del loro lavoro in duo, che va avanti da oltre tre anni. La cantante porta con sé le sue esperienze in molteplici ambiti dell'interpretazione vocale, in particolare quanto sviluppato assieme a Stefano Battaglia lavorando ...
Anthony Pirog: The Hunger Artist
by Glenn Astarita
Anthony Pirog's The Hunger Artist is a sprawling, bold opus that defies easy categorization. This sonic collision of jazz, rock, and experimental music is a semi-chaotic beauty that rewards the adventurous listener with its sheer unpredictability. Pirog, a guitar alchemist known for his boundary-pushing artistry, delivers a mesmerizing work that is less a collection of songs ...
Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab
by Katchie Cartwright
Collab, the duo album from Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Brazilian choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, is a sparkling collaboration between two contemporary masters of rhythm and improvisation. On the wings of a finely calibrated beat and a pliable form, they present 11 selections, adding new harmonic hues to the familiar, stretching, fracturing and reconstituting ...
Albert Ayler / Don Cherry: Albert Ayler With Don Cherry 1964 Recordings First Visit Completed
by Chris May
It is possible that in his liner notes for this album, Brian Morton has unraveled the riddle that is Albert Ayler. Was he a genius? A hoaxer? An outsider artist before the term was coined? A person in the grip of autism? An avant-gardist who decided to become a (whisper it) populist? A religious evangelist? A ...
Horn Engine: Not Like This
by Nicholas F. Mondello
"Not Like This" from the Horn Engine team is somewhat of a textural departure from their more intense, funk and Jerry Hey Horns-oriented earlier fare. Composed by the late Grammy-winner Jeremy Lubbock for Al Jarreau, the song has been covered by artists as wide-ranging as vocalists Helen Merrill, and Mark Murphy, and brass men Til Bronner ...
Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Jim Black: Axes
by Angelo Leonardi
La spinta avventurosa che ha animato la musica del Blend 3 fin dal 2017 (due anni dopo il primo disco Lubok, seguito dal progetto orchestrale Four Winds e da Songs and Poems con Beatrice Arrigoni) trova nuove e palpitanti forma d'espressione. Nel nuovo disco il trio riformula alcune prospettive di base inglobando il formidabile ...
Vijay Iyer: Compassion
by Mario Calvitti
L'ottavo album da titolare del pianista Vijay Iyer per la ECM è anche il primo a riprendere una formazione già utilizzata, per la precisione nel precedente Uneasy pubblicato nel 2021, non considerando un altro disco in trio ma con differenti interpreti (Break Stuff, del 2015). Negli altri lavori Iyer ha spaziato dalla suite cameristica con un ...
Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music
by Richard J Salvucci
A listener who remembers when saxophone quartets were a novelty--and a controversial one at that--is probably wondering how much the Cost-of-Living Adjustment will be for Social Security in 2025. Yes, the esteemed World Saxophone Quartet kicked up as much a critical fuss in the late 1970s as Ornette Coleman did in the 1950s. Not as “In ...
Leo Genovese: Forward
by Mike Jurkovic
Even after who-knows-how-many-years and who-knows-how-many-piano players, it is still outright amazing how each player approaches his/her instrument. Each has their own history, memory and/or love affair that somehow needs telling. Recorded in 2024 at the New York Forward Festival in Brooklyn, Grammy winning ("Best Improvised Jazz Solo," 2023) pianist Leo Genovese--his passions on his ...
Kevin Miller and Dan Blake: At First Light
by Troy Dostert
A serendipitous pairing that first took shape in the early 2020s, guitarist Kevin Miller began meeting regularly with saxophonist Dan Blake for freely improvised sessions that resulted in the tandem developing a highly simpatico vocabulary. At First Light reflects the workings of the duo's distinctive dialogic approach through five spontaneously crafted musical discourses. Many ...
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