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Skopje Jazz Inc.: Incorporated
by Nenad Georgievski
Skopje Jazz Inc.'s debut album is contemporary jazz of character and drive. The musicians, seasoned members of the Macedonian scene, approach this record with gusto, energy, and sensitivity. While trumpeter Trajče Velkov and guitarist Zoran Kostadinovski each contributed the compositions to Incorporated, there is an exceptional equanimity on display, which makes it seem like each composition ...
Nica Carrington: Times Like These
by Jack Bowers
Even though she had been singing, more or less, since she was a child, it was not until the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic that New Yorker Nica Carrington came to realize that tomorrows come with no guarantees, and that the time had come to buckle down and get serious about her craft. After moving from one voice ...
Joe McPhee / John Edwards / Klaus Kugel: Existential Moments
by John Sharpe
Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee's trio with British bassist John Edwards and German drummer Klaus Kugel has become another of his most potent working bands, following in the footsteps of such esteemed outfits as Trio X and Survival Unit III. On their third album, after Journey To Parazzar (NotTwo, 2018) and A Night In Alchemia (NotTwo, 2019), recorded ...
Chet Doxas: Rich in Symbols II
by Troy Dostert
One of Chet Doxas' more distinctive projects, Rich in Symbols (Ropeadope, 2017), involved the saxophonist/clarinetist engaging the 1980s art movement of New York's Lower East Side, composing pieces that reflected his deep interactions with some of those iconic paintings. Now he has done the same with artists from his native Canada: specifically, the Group of Seven, ...
Silvia Bolognesi, Marco Colonna: EraorA
by Neri Pollastri
Silvia Bolognesi e Marco Colonna si conoscono dal 2003, quando parteciparono a una conduction di Butch Morris --un artista che per entrambi ha significato moltissimo-- e da allora non hanno mai smesso di incontrarsi e di collaborare, in varie formazioni e anche in duo: era dunque venuto il momento di documentare la loro straordinaria intesa registrando ...
Snarky Puppy: Empire Central
by Angelo Leonardi
A diciotto anni dalla nascita, gli Snarky Puppy sono tornati a Dallas —luogo d'origine della formazione— per registrare un nuovo album scegliendo l'approccio preferito: quel “live in the studio" con pubblico in sala che ha caratterizzato le loro opere migliori. Quindi otto notti alla Deep Ellum Art Company per mettere a punto 16 ...
Albare & Co.: Freedom
by Jack Bowers
"Jazz is the voice of freedom," says Israeli-born guitarist & composer Albare, “and it will never be silenced." To that end, Albare has assembled a world-class sextet to perform seven of his sunny, swing-based compositions, two others co-written with pianist Phil Turcio and Turcio's graceful “Shimmozle." The session begins, appropriately enough, with Albare's ...
Olie Brice Trio / Octet: Fire Hills
by John Eyles
This two-CD Olie Brice release features very different discs--one featuring five tracks, which total forty-five minutes, by the trio of Brice on double bass plus Tom Challenger on tenor sax and Will Glaser on drums, while the other has three tracks, totalling forty-eight-and-a-half minutes, by an octet comprising Brice and drummer Johnny Hunter plus two trumpets ...
Brian Auger and the Trinity: Far Horizons
by Peter Jones
The pop world of the late sixties/early seventies period was notable for its dissolving of genres and for its richness of instrumentation. Once jazz, soul, R&B, blues, psychedelia, and acid rock had found each other, the result was a flowering of bands who enjoyed a sunny heyday of horns and Hammond organ, until the guitar groups ...
Gentiane MG: Walls Made of Glass
by Dan McClenaghan
Montreal-based pianist Gentiane Michaud-Gagnon, aka Gentiane MG, got her start in music with the classical side. It was Bill Evans' Portrait In Jazz (Riverside Records, 1960) that nudged her in the direction of the possibilities that improvisation offered. With this in mind, it seems fitting that the cover art for her third album release--Walls Of Glass--features ...
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