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Helen Sung Big Band: Oracles
by Katchie Cartwright
"The jazz bandstand is where true democracy lives," the great saxophonist and composer Jimmy Heath told a young Helen Sung. “Everyone must understand their role and come prepared by doing the hard work of study and practice," he said. “Each person will get to say their piece, but it is in the act of integrating as ...
Alexander Hawkins: No Nation but Imagination
by Kevin Poindexter
Pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins has spent years at the forefront of the European jazz avant- garde scene, leading various mutations of the standard group format, from solo piano to large ensembles and everything in between. Experimenting with different dynamics, instruments, and musicians, and adapting them to fulfill the needs of the music has been his ...
Babies On Airplanes: Music For A Noisy Environment
by Daniel Mège
Babies On Airplanes is Anna Ueland's trio project. The cover's suggestion of a run-of-the-mill piano/synthesiser-bass-drums trio formula is deceptive. The album deploys a bric-à-brac in the service of a jazz that navigates between synth-pop, pure improvisation (whatever that means), rock, and pretty much anything else one might want to put in it. Ueland, a physicist who turned ...
Paul Silbergleit Trio: The Stillness of July
by Troy Dostert
With four previous releases under his belt, guitarist Paul Silbergleit has been a steady presence in the Milwaukee jazz scene since his debut record, Silberglicity, appeared in 1996. But The Stillness of July is his first outing complemented by bassist Clay Schaub and drummer Devin Drobka. This fine trio provides a lithe treatment of several Silbergleit ...
Emie R. Roussel: TERR
by Konstantin N. Rega
Even after 15 years of creative synergy, the Montréal-based Emie R Roussel Trio continues to flex its creative muscles with sensitivity and sophistication. TERR seems to center around the common themes of togetherness and community, of what humanity shares and the spaces we co-inhabit. Emie R. Roussel on piano and keyboards with Nicolas Bédard on electric bass ...
Jaana Narsipur: The Re-Collection
by Pierre Giroux
There are few things more revealing than the songs we hold close from our formative years. Jaana Narsipur on The Re- Collection opens her musical scrapbook of Brit-pop and adult contemporary staples, reimagining them as living, breathing jazz narratives. The result is an album that feels deeply personal without tipping into self-indulgence. Pianist and music director ...
Janel Leppin: Slowly Melting
by Kevin Poindexter
Haunting, thrilling, gorgeous, these are all words that one could use to describe Slowly Melting, an album of both grace and power by Janel Leppin. Not power in the sense that the album will blow your hair back, but power in the sense that it can shape and change the way you listen, evoking a complex ...
Mike Westbrook: The Piano in the Room and the Blues
by Vincenzo Roggero
Pubblicato in occasione del novantesimo compleanno e circa un mese prima della sua scomparsa, The Piano in the Room and the Blues testimonia un concerto per piano solo, evento piuttosto raro nella sconfinata discografia di Mike Westbrook, leggendario musicista britannico noto per aver composto musica per ogni tipo di formazione, dal duo a varie combinazioni orchestrali, avventurandosi ...
Oiseau Murmure: Oiseau Murmure
by Andrew Hunter
Oiseau Murmure, the name of the band and the record, means, literally, whispering birds. It also describes birds in murmuration--the beautiful, elastic clouds in which birds whisper at dusk. How fitting for such a beautiful work as this. Ouisea Murmure is a trio consisting of three very accomplished, very experienced musicians, taking some time ...
Olivia Murphy: Fateful Birds & Fledgling Stories
by Jerome Wilson
Olivia Murphy is a young composer and bandleader who has been establishing herself as a distinctive voice on the British jazz scene, leading a large ensemble that mostly performs her own compositions. She makes her orchestral recording debut on this album, which applies her musical ideas to themes of transformation and community derived from mythical portraits ...
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