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Yelena Eckemoff: Colors live at KITO Bremen
by Tyran Grillo
Colors is less a suite than a life in motion, and in this solo performance at KITO Bremen, Yelena Eckemoff allows that life to unfold with an unguarded clarity that feels both intimate and elemental. What began as a duo project with drummer Manu Katché becomes, through circumstance and choice, a meditation stripped of all counterweights. ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Lonely Man and His Fish
by Tyran Grillo
After a run of emotionally expansive albums, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff once again pivots without losing her center. Reinvention has become part of her artistic language, and here it arrives with a new cast and a story told in patient detail. Kirk Knuffke appears on cornet, Masaru Koga on a flute modified with a shakuhachi ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon
by Tyran Grillo
With Romance of the Moon, Yelena Eckemoff descends further into the symbolic night, carrying Federico García Lorca's poetry as a living grammar in her heart. This suite of 13 compositions does not illustrate the poems so much as converse with them, answering their obsessions with music that listens as intently as it speaks. Lorca's moons, bells, ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Scenes From the Dark Ages
by Tyran Grillo
Yelena Eckemoff has long composed as though mapping weather rather than terrain, tracing pressure systems of mood and atmosphere while leaving strict pulse to others. Her music often moves with purpose yet refuses the easy certainties of groove, circling rhythm instead of kneeling before it. This has never felt like abstinence or austerity. It feels more ...
John Yao: Points In Time
by Angelo Leonardi
Attivo sulla scena di New York da vent'anni, John Yao s'è distinto come docente (al Berklee College e al Queens College), trombonista di sezione in big band (Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra) e solista in altri organici ( Paquito D'Rivera, Eddie Palmieri, Danilo Perez, </a>Chris Potter) oltre che leader di propri gruppi, con cui ha ...
Bévort 3: A Cup of Joe
by Ian Patterson
Tributes to jazz's most celebrated figures often take the form of interpretations of their work. Not so with Danish saxophonist and composer Pernille Bévort, who raises her cup to tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson on eight original tunes. Henderson's So Near So Far: Musings for Miles (Verve Records, 1993) is one of Bévort's touchstone album picks, and ...
Joel Ross: Gospel Music
by Jack Kenny
Religion has long provided a stimulus for jazz. Figures as august as Duke Ellington and John Coltrane drew profound inspiration from their faith, though their reception varied. Ellington's religious compositions were often unfairly dismissed as the eccentric, late career works of an aging genius. Conversely, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) perfectly captured the spiritual ...
Giacomo Ancillotto: Descansate Niño
by Neri Pollastri
È significativo fin dal suo titolo questo primo disco a proprio nome di Giacomo Ancillotto, musicista comunque già molto noto e assai apprezzato: Descansate Niño viene infatti da una strofa di Paolo Conte e si riferisce a un esitante musicista sul punto di dire la sua, cosa che Ancillotto fa in questo album, di fatto un ...
Max Trabucco: Convergence
by Neri Pollastri
L'idea guida di Convergence, ultimo disco del batterista Max Trabucco, è espressa già nel titolo: far convergere le linee dei quattro strumenti monofonici, sovrapponendole e sommandone le possibilità armoniche. E che questa sia l'idea si coglie tangibilmente nella musica, ascoltando quanto siano ridotti, e comunque sempre funzionali al suono d'assieme, gli assoli dei quattro musicisti, come ...
Jerry Weldon: The Summit
by Pierre Giroux
Recorded live before an attentive audience at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center in New Jersey, in November 2024, The Summit features tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon consistently giving his best in honour of the hard-swinging values of mid-century hard bop while keeping the music vibrantly alive in the moment. In addition to Weldon, the front line ...
