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Michael Sarian: Live at Cliff Bell's - Vol. II
by Troy Dostert
There was no reason whatsoever for listeners who enjoyed trumpeter Michael Sarian's terrific 2024 release, Live at Cliff Bell's (Shifting Paradigm Records), to feel short--changed. Capturing all the energy and excitement of a first-rate performance at the renowned Detroit jazz club from the previous year, the album traversed a wide spectrum of emotional registers and displayed ...
Sacha Boutros: Sacha: Paris After Dark
by Pierre Giroux
With Sacha: Paris After Dark, vocalist Sacha Boutros, delivers an elegant and lovingly crafted tribute to a century of French and American song, drawing on the enduring traditions of both genres with the care of someone deeply familiar with their roots. Recorded with a seasoned Franco-American ensemble including trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo, pianist Franck Amsallem, guitarist Hugo ...
LAC Trio: L'ala incerta della farfalla
by Neri Pollastri
Ispirato dal desiderio di esplorare “il potere creativo e rivoluzionario dell'inazione, la sua bellezza e ricchezza come risposta e alternativa a una società ossessionata dalla produttività e l'autottimizzazione," questo album del LAC Trio --dalle iniziali dei nomi dei suoi membri Leonardo Franceschini, Andrea Leone e Carlo Longo --si sviluppa attorno all'improvvisata title track e vede quattro ...
Jerome Sabbagh: Stand Up!
by Joshua Weiner
While much great jazz has emerged from one-off encounters among musicians, there is a lot to be said for the synergy of longstanding working bands. The former may provide more spontaneity and produce fireworks, but it can also lead to the occasional dud due to a mismatch in approach. Players in a working band, in contrast, ...
Nick Storring: Mirante
by Glenn Astarita
Nick Storring titles his ninth album with a Portuguese word meaning “lookout," though the music rarely lets you settle into any one view. His connection to Brazil is indirect--two tracks were written before he ever visited--but the album carries the energy, textures, and rhythms of a place half-remembered, half-imagined. Instead of leaning on familiar Brazilian cues ...
Peter Evans: Ars Ludicra
by Fran Kursztejn
In the band's handful of releases the past decade, Peter Evans' Being & Becoming has defined itself by an unusual pattern of influence. As the former leader of superstar avant-garde quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Evans has always played the agitator, the many-hats uncompromising auteur, challenging in both sonic intellect and actual practice. He ...
Dooom Orchestra: Our Sea Lies Within II
by Angelo Leonardi
La Dooom Orchestra di Francesco Cigana pubblica un secondo volume con il materiale emerso dalla session del luglio 2023. Del collettivo padovano d'avanguardia abbiamo già parlato recensendo il primo volume Our Sea Lies Within e rimandiamo a quel testo i lettori. Anche in quest'album abbiamo otto brani dove la libera improvvisazione la fa da ...
Roy Powell - Lorenzo Feliciati - Lucrezio de Seta: Aria
by Glenn Astarita
Roy Powell has been the quiet man in the engine room for years. British by birth and Norwegian by choice, he once spent serious time as Anthony Braxton's pianist on those wild European tours where the music looked like geometry homework, and the applause was optional. He later slipped into the electric Norwegian wave, trading greasy ...
Mulo Francel & Rami Attallah Group: Global Players
by Ian Patterson
For most professional jazz musicians the jazz life is a labor of love--endless gigs over countless miles, early morning starts and early morning finishes. It is not all glamour, and the bills have to be paid, after all. Still, the lure of the road persists, and in this age of globalization the average jazz musician can ...
Wanees Zarour: Silwan
by Jack Bowers
There are times when not knowing what to expect can be helpful. Wanees Zarour, a Palestinian American artist who now calls Chicago home, plays the buzuq and oud, stringed instruments from the Middle East, and couples them on Silwan with his skills as a composer to produce melodic and colorful images of his homeland interspersed with ...
