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Perelman / Ribot / Sharp / Morris: Trifecta
by Mark Corroto
With a discography approaching 200 releases, it might be tempting to imagine saxophonist Ivo Perelman as a kind of jazz gunfighter, in the lineage of Charlie Parker or Coleman Hawkins, stepping into one cutting contest after another. But that image misses the mark. Perelman's recordings are rarely about competition. Instead, they are grounded in creation, collaboration ...
Ada Rave & Marta Warelis: Peel/Mondo
by John Sharpe
On Peel/Mondo, two distinctive voices sport in adventurous communion. Polish pianist Marta Warelis and Argentinean saxophonist Ada Rave first met as part of the fertile Amsterdam scene. As a result, they know each other well, so the empathy and highly attuned responsiveness they display on these six collective inventions from a 2024 concert performance comes as ...
Sean Imboden Large Ensemble: Uncharted Realms
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist and composer Sean Imboden's Large Ensemble springs forth from America's heartland--more specifically, the thriving capital city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The ensemble is indeed large--18 members strong--and Imboden gives every one of them serious work to do on the group's second recording, Uncharted Realms, unraveling a series of colorful and adventurous charts written with the ensemble's ...
Guillaume Hazebrouck 6tet feat. James Noël: En toute pyromanie
by Alberto Bazzurro
La sinergia fra parola detta e musica di emanazione jazzistica, così in auge da un po' di tempo a questa parte, presenta regolarmente problemi di equilibrio, di convivenza che possa dirsi vantaggiosa per entrambe le componenti poste in gioco. Non fa eccezione questo lavoro, che mette a decantare assieme la musica del pianista di ...
Things Of This Nature: Things Of This Nature
by Glenn Astarita
Caylie Davis grew up in Eugene, Oregon, playing trumpet in a town not exactly known for avant-garde-leaning jazz before making her way to New York to enroll at the Manhattan School of Music. There, she studied under Ingrid Jensen, Nadje Noordhuis and Jon Faddis--three players who, between them, cover a wide stylistic range. Davis casts an even ...
Yusef Lateef: Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase
by Pierre Giroux
Some nights vanish into the ether, while others wait, patiently, until the world is ready to hear them. Such is the case with Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase. Resonance Records has released this adventurous 1975 recording as a limited-edition 180-gram 3-LP set and a 3-CD release, which feels less like an archival ...
Trombocalist Big Band: The Vigil and the Sleeping Giant
by Jack Bowers
Even those whose batting averages are high are not immune from life's unforeseen and often disastrous curve balls. Low-brass multi-instrumentalist Ron Wilkins, riding the wave as a successful musician and bandleader, learned that the hard way when he was struck by Covid in 2020 and spent more than a month in a medically induced coma with ...
Charles Ruggiero: Plays Monk Live! At The Baked Potato
by Jack Bowers
Perhaps no other composer has contributed more standards to the jazz canon than Thelonious Sphere Monk, whose music was once considered too atypical and erratic for the mainstream. Times and tastes have changed, however, and on second glance, Thelonious Monk's compositions, even when skirting the norm, seem nowhere near as deviant as before. In 2026, it ...
Ben Wendel: BaRcoDe
by Angelo Leonardi
Il nuovo progetto di Ben Wendel vede il sassofonista canadese a capo di un quintetto senza la tradizionale sezione ritmica ma comprendente quattro acclamati vibrafonisti: Patricia Brennan, Simon Moullier, Joel Ross e Juan Diego Villalobos che ampliano lo spettro strumentale usando anche marimba, balafon, varie percussioni e dispositivi elettronici. L'organico è davvero inusuale ma ...
Giuseppe D'Angelo: Mysterious Traveller. The Music of Wayne Shorter
by Neri Pollastri
Che Wayne Shorter sia stato uno dei più grandi compositori della storia del jazz è cosa ampiamente riconosciuta, anche se negli ultimi, luminosi anni della sua carriera la sua ricerca si è progressivamente spostata verso l'interazione improvvisativa, privilegiando strutture fluide e aperte rispetto alla scrittura tematica tradizionale. Mysterious Traveller del pianista e compositore Giuseppe D'Angelo, offre ...
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