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Columbia Icefield: A Silence Opens
by Troy Dostert
While grief is universal to the human experience, its specific manifestations can vary widely within each person who mourns. One of the challenges of the grieving process involves the difficulty of sharing exactly what one is feeling, and it can thus be an isolating experience--ironically, and painfully, at a time when human connection is most needed. ...
Poppy Ackroyd: Liminal
by Neil Duggan
Poppy Ackroyd's album Liminal comes five years after her previous release, Pause (One Little Independent Records, 2021). The intervening years and the personal upheavals they brought have left their mark on the multi-instrumentalist's work. The result is a release that should appeal to listeners who enjoy the space where jazz, minimalist, electronic and classical music converge. ...
Mike Caudill: Caught at Dusk
by Don Ball
Mike Caudill acquits himself well on his first trio recording as a leader, Caught at Dusk. The saxophone/bass/drums trio has been all but a rite of passage for young saxophonists ever since Sonny Rollins released his trio recordings, Way Out West (Contemporary Records,1957) and A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note Records,1958). It is a ...
Colin Steele: Stramash II
by Mark McKergow
Scottish trumpeter and composer Colin Steele returns with his jazz-meets-folk ensemble for another round of boundary-spanning music where technique meets heart and soul. Steele has been a mainstay of Scotland's jazz scene for more than two decades, with recent albums exploring music outside the jazz canon. His interpretations of tunes by Scots emo pop ...
Norma Winstone: A Timeless Place
by Neil Duggan
This 1990 recording unites the outstanding vocal talents of Norma Winstone MBE with the NDR Radio Orchestra. Now known as NDR RADIOPHILHARMONIE, the distinguished German radio symphony orchestra, invited Winstone to participate in a broadcast session. In turn, she enlisted pianist and arranger Steve Gray, with whom she had previously collaborated on BBC projects.
Seamus Blake: The Electrifying Seamus Blake Plays The Music Of Eddie Harris EH!
by Pierre Giroux
Some musicians seem incapable of standing still, their curiosity drawing them towards unexplored corners of the music world. Seamus Blake may well be one of them. A formidable tenor saxophonist rooted in the post-bop tradition, Blake has spent much of his career quietly erasing stylistic borders. On The Electrifying Seamus Blake Plays The Music Of Eddie ...
Michael Dease Big Band: Return Trajectory
by Jack Bowers
While it is not true that a photo of Michael Dease appears in Webster's dictionary next to the word “versatile," the metaphor does not seem too far-fetched once one considers the many tasks Dease carries out on his latest recording, Return Trajectory. Not only does Dease lead his big band, he wrote three of the album's ...
Xangorchestra: Quando le tigri fumavano
by Alberto Bazzurro
"Xangorchestra è stata fondata a Bologna nel 2022 come laboratorio collettivo di sperimentazione musicale tra un gruppo di amici, in risposta a un ambiente musicale istituzionale percepito come arido e inospitale. Il progetto si è sviluppato attraverso sessioni regolari incentrate sulle pratiche contemporanee di improvvisazione e composizione, tra cui conduzione, Cobra, improvvisazione radicale, partiture grafiche e ...
Zoe Rahman: Hull Suite Live
by Neil Duggan
Hull Suite Live was written by Zoe Rahman for World Piano Day 2024 and commissioned by the Hull Jazz Festival. Two statues inspired the suite in the coastal city of Hull, “Voyage" and “Migrants Statue." The two works, which stand on the waterfront, were erected to commemorate the city's history of global migration. The suite explores ...
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Live at Falkoner Theatre Copnhagen 1966
by Jack Kenny
The night before Ella Fitzgerald's historic concert with Duke Ellington in Stockholm, she played two concerts in Copenhagen. For Ella Fitzgerald, this was like playing at home because she had an apartment in the city. It was one place where she felt relaxed and it shows in the music. It is Fitzgerald at her most at ...
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