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Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of Drums
by Angelo Leonardi
Il sassofonista e compositore australiano Jeremy Rose documenta un ambizioso progetto in undici movimenti, che esalta la forza ancestrale delle percussioni etniche in un contesto orchestrale d'avanguardia. Presentato in anteprima al festival di Sydney del 2021, Disuption! The Voice of Drums, è un punto significativo della sua carriera e nasce dalla riflessione sulle turbolenze politico/ambientali degli ...
Günter "Baby" Sommer, Fabrizio Puglisi: Elements
by Neri Pollastri
Ripresa da concerti tenuti in un arco di tempo piuttosto ampio--dal 2013 al 2018--l'ora di musica presente in questo CD documenta il duo che da anni intrattengono il pianista Fabrizio Puglisi e il leggendario batterista tedesco Gunter Baby Sommer, uno dei protagonisti del movimento d'improvvisazione dell'Europa continentale dalla fine degli anni Sessanta. Accomunati non ...
Anat Fort Trio: The Berlin Sessions
by Dan McClenaghan
"They said nobody makes CDs anymore. So I made a DOUBLE CD with stuff I've never recorded. Ever." So says Israeli pianist Anat Fort. To borrow a term from the United States' 2016 presidential election, Fort doubled down" on the nobody makes CDs" thing. Bless her for that. That double CD is ...
Ada Rave / Aaron Lumley / Onno Govaert: Bioluminus
by Mark Corroto
We can no longer refer to the music and creative Amsterdam scene with the title coined by author Kevin Whitehead as the New Dutch Swing. His 1998 book of the same name described the origins of the free jazz movement in The Netherlands and its now legendary masters such as Misha Mengelberg, Willem Breuker, Han Bennink, ...
King Übü Örchestrü 2021: Roi
by John Eyles
The large improvising ensemble King Übü Örchestrü first saw the light of day when they recorded their debut album, Music Is Music Is (Uhlklang, 1985) in Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in December 1984. It was a sign of the times that their trumpeter Mark Charig was prevented from going to Berlin for the recording. But, with ...
Ally Fiola & The Next Quest: Interblaze
by Dan McClenaghan
Nova Scotian alto saxophonist Ally Fiola considers the themes of grief, wonder, fear and passion with her octet The Next Quest, on Interblaze. With a lot of low-end brass--baritone saxophone, trombone, sousaphone--the sound has a New Orleans brass band feel. It is also fun, celebratory music. The title tune and opening number sounds like a prance ...
Rasmussen, Flaherty, Rowden, Corsano: Crying in Space
by Mark Corroto
The question to be answered during this live performance was, Will there be enough space for all the musicians' voices to be heard?" Recorded at Firehouse 12, in June 2019, this new ensemble is an adaptation of various duos and familiar trios. Saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano have performed and recorded numerous discs together ...
Leon Russell: Signature Songs
by Doug Collette
Originally released in 2001 and out-of-print since a 2007 re-release, Leon Russell's Signature Songs is now available again on compact disc and vinyl LP in tandem with a new distribution agreement for late Beatle George Harrison's label imprint, Dark Horse Records. A collection of eleven stripped-down takes on The Master of Space And Time's best-known songs, ...
Yosef-Gutman Levitt & Tal Yahalom: Tsuf Harim
by Gareth Thompson
In early Hasidic writings, magical and supernatural concepts rooted in the mystic were common. Such notions held that human acts, including musical activity, could affect the godhead and thus the whole world. By the late eighteenth century, these Jewish religious teachings saw music as something inward, a form of contemplation with the soul. Yosef-Gutman ...
Doug MacDonald: Big Band Extravaganza
by Jack Bowers
Pardon the superlative, but what a terrific album! Extravanga marks the debut of guitarist Doug MacDonald's seventeen-member Jazz Orchestra, and he has guaranteed that it swings with gusto by writing nine perceptive and luminous charts that are sure to bring out the best in any ensemble, especially one as well-equipped as this. During his decades-long career ...


