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Owen Chen: Eternal Wind
by Jack Bowers
Every song on guitarist Owen Chen's album Eternal Wind was written or co-written as part of a film score by Joe Hishaishi of Japan's animation company, Studio Ghibli. “The music, stories and emotions we encounter as children stay with us," Chen writes. “Eternal Wind aims to bring forth melodies that live in our past, with our ...
Matteo Alfonso, Giovanni Maier: Mingus Revisited
by Neri Pollastri
Pensato in occasione del quarantennale della morte e sviluppato negli anni, questo omaggio a Charles Mingus si basa sulla “scrematura armonica" delle sue composizioni --come già l'autore stesso aveva fatto con “Pithecantropus Erectus" --e sulla loro rilettura attraverso improvvisazioni libere e personali. Una modalità che i due protagonisti, Matteo Alfonso al pianoforte e Giovanni Maier al ...
Gary Versace Trio: Three Track Mind
by Angelo Leonardi
La figura di Gary Versace sembra appartenere alla categoria dei “musician's musician," artisti molto stimati dai colleghi ma poco conosciuti dal vasto pubblico. Le sue collaborazioni sono molte e prestigiose e in quelle dove ha maggior visibilità (pensiamo all'orchestra di Maria Schneider) non suona il pianoforte ma la fisarmonica o l'organo. I suoi dischi da leader in ...
Freysteinn Gíslason: Thoughts
by Glenn Astarita
Freysteinn Gíslason is an Icelandic double bassist and composer whose musical path started at home before taking him to the Royal Conservatorium in Den Haag. That background clearly shapes his playing, yet what truly sets him apart is his restraint. He has little interest in turning every track into a showcase of virtuosity. Instead, he hunts ...
Carlos Henrique Pereira: Northern Readings
by Pierre Giroux
Brazilian composer, pianist, and guitarist Carlos Henrique Pereira's release Northern Readings is a quietly remarkable recording that unfolds less like a collection of tracks than a carefully stitched memoir in sound. Grounded in the heritage of Brazil's Minas Gerais State, the album brings together a complementary blend of traditions, with the patience and honesty Pereira shows ...
Eric Person: Extra Pressure
by Mike Jurkovic
Curating the elders while clearing his own path, there is an urgent, blue ease to alto and soprano sax man Eric Person's resonance. As a matter of fact, there is a blue urgency to all of Person's compositions: His wiry lines have stories to tell and tell them he does, with a soulful urban sovereignty. Witness “Fallout," ...
Mathias Ruppnig: FOAM (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel)
by Blue Summers
There is a long tradition of excellent European jazz composers, and a more recent addition to that list is Austrian drummer and composer Mathias Ruppnig. Ruppnig has a strong academic background in drumming and composing, and this is evident in the sophistication of the compositions and arrangements. But the presence of American guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel adds a bit of ...
Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra: Glorious Assembly
by Mark McKergow
The Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra is the creation of Emmy Award-winning film composer David Mitcham . After a career writing music for the screen, often with jazz undertones, Mitcham has chosen to expand his ambitions by directing a full-on extended big band playing new compositions on Glorious Assembly. The 20- piece group features some of the UK's ...
Terry Waldo & The Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 3
by Jack Bowers
When it comes to ragtime jazz, pianist, historian, author, and cultural preservationist Terry Waldo literally wrote the book. Said book is This Is Ragtime (Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc., 1976), widely regarded as the most thorough and authoritative guide to one of modern jazz's early precursors. Treasury, Volume 3 is the last in a trilogy of ...
Carlos Henriquez: Monk Con Clave
by Pierre Giroux
Carlos Henriquez has long understood that rhythm tells stories long before words arrive. On Monk Con Clave, he takes Thelonious Monk's angular brilliance and brings it back to the streets, dance halls, and other crowded spaces across New York's Afro-Caribbean neighbourhoods. The result is not merely a tribute album but a living dialogue between Monk's genius ...
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