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Sergio Armaroli: Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit
by Neri Pollastri
Sulla scorta del suo amore e dei suoi studi su John Cage, Sergio Armaroli raccoglie attorno a sé un quintetto di straordinari musicisti per ricreare (non sapremmo in quale altro modo definire questa che è ben più di una rilettura) uno spettacolo radiofonico che il visionario musicista statunitense mandò in onda il 31 maggio 1942, musicando ...
Kenny Barron: So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Kenny Barron (b. 1943) has paid his dues, working in the bands of Yusef Lateef and Dizzy Gillespie as well as a three-year stint in trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's band. His work as a leader has also soared. His first album under his own name was titled You Had Better Listen (Atlantic, 1967). That title offered ...
Ambrose Akinmusire / Mary Halvorson: Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings
by Mike Jurkovic
In a true meeting of great minds, shared aesthetic, and Nonesuch label mates, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson play intently with their new Halvorson and hand-me-down Akinmusire Line 6 DL4 MkII Delay Modeler, and break the dark silence with the spectral movement of Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings. More laid back and ambient than either of the influencers' ...
Ali Ryerson: The Ali Ryerson Quartet
by Hrayr Attarian
Accomplished flutist Ali Ryerson is one of the most exciting proponents of the instrument in jazz. Over the course of a long career, both performing and teaching, she has honed a unique style. It is rooted in the Western classical tradition. Yet it has a boppish and soulful spontaneity. Her 17th release as a leader, simply ...
Louise Alexandra: Crazy World of Love
by C. Michael Bailey
The release of Crazy World of Love marks a new chapter for Louise Alexandra, a jazz vocalist whose artistry is as deep as her background is unconventional. Splitting her time between the vanguard of medical science and the timeless traditions of jazz, Alexandra is a Dutch-American vocalist, songwriter, and active cancer research scientist. For over 15 ...
Frank Zappa: One Size Fits All 50th Anniversary Edition
by Mario Calvitti
Non si arresta il flusso di pubblicazioni che periodicamente arricchiscono la già strabordante discografia di Frank Zappa. A oltre 30 anni dalla sua prematura scomparsa continuano a emergere dagli apparentemente inesauribili archivi amorevolmente curati dal Vaultmeister Joe Travers materiali inediti di studio e live, a un ritmo di almeno tre-quattro uscite annue. Dopo l'interamente ...
Jon Irabagon: Focus Out
by Vincenzo Roggero
Focus Out è la seconda uscita discografica di Rising Sun, ennesima formazione partorita dalla mente vulcanica del sassofonista Jon Irabagon, da diversi anni figura centrale nella scena più vivace, creativa e imprevedibile del jazz statunitense. Un quartetto acustico/elettrico con i fiocchi che si avvale dell'apporto di musicisti altrettanto creativi e già coinvolti in passati progetti del ...
Rahul Mukerji: Mridhangit
by Maciej Stasiowski
Mridhangit is a portmanteau of the instrument mridangam, employed extensively on the new record by Rahul Mukerji, and the Hindi word for song or music (git/geet). First ignited on the artist's 2017 release Ma De Re Sha (Self Produced, 2017), the project has solidified into a recognisable signature: guitar-led instrumentals anchored in Indian percussive rhythms, shaped ...
Pierre Favre: Bird Food
by Glenn Astarita
Captured live at Radio Studio Zurich in 1968, this is the earliest known recording of the Pierre Favre Trio, dormant for more than half a century until Favre and trombonist Samuel Blaser unearthed it while sorting through forgotten tapes. That it survived at all feels faintly miraculous, the jazz equivalent of finding cash in an old ...
The Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra: Chronography
by Jack Bowers
On Chronography, Boston-based trumpeter and composer Greg Hopkins and his 16-member Jazz Orchestra revitalize ten of the leader's never-before-recorded compositions and arrangements, most of them well-known standards from the Great American Songbook, that span more than half a century of astute and perceptive songwriting. The earliest, Willard Robison's “Old Folks," was arranged for the ...
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