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Chris Potter: Got The Keys To The Kingdom: Live At The Village Vanguard
by Ian Patterson
The title references an old gospel song, but for Chris Potter the keys in question could be those to the Village Vanguard. This is the saxophonist's third live recording from jazz's most storied club, not counting those with Paul Motian. For musicians and fans alike, this is hallowed turf. But it's not just about playing at ...
Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Uptown on Mardi Gras Day
by Jack Bowers
Even though New Orleans' lively and colorful holiday festival is the focal point of trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis' Uptown Jazz Orchestra's latest recording, this is an album that can be heard and appreciated at any time of the year, as there is never a day when pleasure and happiness aren't in style. Delfeayo, a ...
Francesco Negro Trio: Sospese Visioni
by Angelo Leonardi
Tra i pianisti italiani di ultima generazione, Francesco Negro è uno dei più inventivi. Dopo il diploma al conservatorio di Lecce e anni di perfezionamento in ambito classico (biennio specialistico in Musica del Novecento al conservatorio di Frosinone) e jazz (seminari estivi del Berklee College a Perugia e ai master di Siena) dal ...
Fractal Sextet: Fractal Sextet
by Mike Jacobs
In the over two-decade-old “movement" that's come to be known as Swiss Minimalism, guitarist Stephan Thelen has pushed himself to the fore, both with his group SONAR and in solo projects. In recent years, he's been astonishingly prolific (releasing five albums from 2021-2022 alone). With recent group work in Sonar being expanded to include guitarist David ...
D.B. Shrier: D. B. Shrier emerges
by Mike Jurkovic
The provenance behind this full-bore blow out recorded in 1967 by Philadelphia tenor sax legend D.B.Shrier differs from most myths in the fact that we now have pure, full-blown proof of what a night in his company sounded like: A scorching combustion of energy, virtuosity and audience adulation. Originally released by Alfa Records in ...
Blue Moka: Enjoy!
by Neil Duggan
Enjoy your jazz with a jazz-funk groove and perhaps looking for something a little different? Then Blue Moka may have just the thing with their second album and first international release, Enjoy!. This hard-working Italian quartet formed in 2009 blends a variety of influences, both traditional and modern on this album. There's contemporary jazz, a good ...
Paul Giger: ars moriendi
by Mario Calvitti
Il violinista svizzero Paul Giger è uno degli artisti più originali e meno etichettabili nel catalogo ECM, dove è presente con sette titoli compreso questo recente ars moriendi, tutti molto diversi l'uno dall'altro. Il suo personale approccio alla musica che ha mostrato nei suoi album consiste in una combinazione di composizione e improvvisazione, mescolando antico e ...
Aruán Ortiz Trio: Serranias: Sketchbook For Piano Trio
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Aruan Ortiz hails from Santiago de Cuba, but he has resided in the United States for two decades. Musically he is a first cousin to pianist Matthew Shipp with his approachable and often intense and avant-garde keyboard style; and he seems a stylistic grandson to Thelonious Monk with his joyful angularities and off-kilter interludes. But ...
SBATAX: Spires
by Mark Corroto
The current literature on training to improve one's physical fitness advises an 90/10 approach. Ninety percent of workouts, it is advised, you maintain zone 2 (elevated heart rate but with the ability to carry on a conversation) when say, running or cycling. The remaining ten percent of your workouts, you opt for HIIT (High Intensity Interval ...
Arbenz / Krijger / Osby: Conversation #9: Targeted
by Chris May
This mind-bending album skewers any notion that modern-day organ trios are all unimaginative bores churning out reheated cliches lifted from Blue Note and Prestige albums of the 1950s and '60s. With that stereotype in mind, one would hesitate to apply the term “organ trio" to the collaborative group on Targeted. But its instigator, ...
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