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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 ...
Ben Ferrell: Sextet
by Jack Bowers
On Sextet, bassist Ben Ferrell's six-member group strives with mixed results to maintain magnetism and diversity in five of his generally low-key compositions, some of which might benefit from an occasional shot of adrenalin. Ferrell apparently knows where he is going, and shares what can be described as a cool journey. There are three ...
Willy Rodriguez: In The Unknown (I Will Find You)
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il batterista portoricano Willy Rodriguez, ormai newyorchese d'adozione, dirige in questo che è il secondo album a sua firma un trio anomalo, ma neanche troppo, con una tastiera in luogo del più canonico contrabbasso (bassless, come si dice), generando una musica scura (però anche qui solo fino a un certo punto) in cui appare decisivo l'apporto ...
Steve Swallow: Winter Songs
by Jack Kenny
To create his first new music since the death of his partner, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow gathered a circle of close friends and longtime collaborators: saxophonist Chris Cheek, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, drummer Adam Nussbaum, guitarist Steve Cardenas, and pianist Gil Goldstein. The result, Winter Songs-- Swallow's first outing as a leader in over a decade was ...
Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell: End of Something
by Katchie Cartwright
Recorded in 2023, Sara Serpa and Matt Mitchell's End of Something launched in 2025, splashing down late in the year, landing softly on select best-of-year lists. It had been a slow process, Serpa reported. There was a feeling “that it was OK to wait and take time, to come back to it a few months later ...
Gjerstad Schlippenbach Narvesen: Seven Tracks
by John Sharpe
No messages. No allusions. Just pure music. Seven Tracks arrives stripped of extraneous signposts, its cuts identified only by duration and its content left to speak entirely for itself. Happily the utilitarian approach does not extend to the volatile freeform exchanges between veterans Norwegian reedman Frode Gjerstad and German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, and Gjerstad's younger ...
Harriet Tubman: Electrical Field of Love
by Stefano Merighi
La musica come colore acceso, come desiderio esplorativo per lasciarsi alle spalle impedimenti, regole fisse, clichè. Harriet Tubman, fin dal nome, è una sfida allo status quo, il ricordo di una militante abolizionista del XIX secolo passata alla storia come una tra le figure più influenti della cultura politica afroamericana. Harriet Tubman è un ...
Peggy Lee: Too Marvelous for Words
by C. Michael Bailey
“Every musician in town wanted that gig... She got whoever she wanted, because she was so good." --pianist Lou Levy, as quoted by James Gavin in Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (Atria Books, 2014) Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920, Peggy Lee ...
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