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Küchen, Fernandez, Kaučič: The Steps That Resonate
by Neri Pollastri
Registrato il 9 settembre 2021 a Šmartno, durante l'undicesima edizione del Brda Contemporary Music Festival, questo disco documenta l'improvvisazione realizzata dal sassofonista svedese Martin Küchen, dal pianista spagnolo Augusti Fernandez e dal batterista Zlatko Kaučič, che del festival è organizzatore e anima. Il lavoro è suddiviso in due parti (sebbene la copertina non lo riporti): la ...
New Ethic Society: Post Colonial Blues - A Thomas Sankara
by Neri Pollastri
Nata quasi per caso, ma strutturatasi attorno a una forte identità musicale ed extramusicale, la New Ethic Society è una delle più recenti formazioni cui ha dato vita Marco Colonna e della quale questo lavoro è quasi una sorta di manifesto. Come recita il sottotitolo, si tratta di un omaggio a Thomas Sankara, il ...
Jim Levendis: The Big Band Project
by Jack Bowers
Jim Levendis knew that time was running out. In his mid-seventies, the veteran Philadelphia-area trumpeter and educator had contracted ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), the effects of which were rapidly sapping his energy and ability to function. As the disease progressed, Levendis confided in Len Pierro, a band mate in the Ward Marston band, that there was ...
Albert Ayler: At Slugs’ Saloon 1966 Revisited
by Mark Corroto
With Albert Ayler it has seemingly always been “what If." What if he had survived that plunge to his death in the East River in 1970? Setting aside the question of whether he was murdered or committed suicide, how would he have altered the course of music if he lived beyond those 34 years? At the ...
Robert Diack: Small Bridges
by Dan McClenaghan
It is heartening to hear a new artist coming on strong. Drummer Robert Diack's self-released debut, Lost Villages, placed the artist in the visionary column of jazz artists, as he spotlighted, with an original voice, the concept concerning a series of flooded townships in Southern Ontario, Canada, places put underwater in the 1950s for ...
Matthias Loibner, Lucas Niggli: Still Storm
by Mark Corroto
If Scottish pop singer Donavan is your only reference to the term “hurdy-gurdy," as in his 1968 hit “Hurdy Gurdy Man," welcome to this extraordinary device for improvisation. This medieval hand-cranked string instrument, which also has keys, is a kind of magic buzzing drone box which is part bagpipes, part violin and part sitar. The Austrian ...
Angelica Sanchez: Sparkle Beings
by Richard J Salvucci
A famous philosopher once said “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." This is something of a problem for a reviewer. If the music is stunning—unexpectedly so—then the logical thing is to simply write that. But then it is possible to end up end up well out of one's depth. If the ...
Glenn Zottola & Chick Corea: The Legend & I
by Edward Blanco
There have been several musical tributes to the late great Armando Anthony “Chick" Corea since his untimely passing in February, 2021, mostly from fellow musicians. However, The Legend and I is an intimate musical portrait from LA multi-instrumentalist Glenn Zottola who just happened to be one of Corea's best long-time personal friends. As Zottola affirms “He ...
Charu Suri: Ragas & Waltzes
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Charu Suri's father was a CEO of a record label. Suri was born in India, and has lived in four continents. Her father's profession meant that slews of records were available for her young musical ears. Her piano training was initially classical. Then, as so often happens, jazz stepped in, took a chair, and slid ...
Kirk Knuffke: Gravity without Airs
by John Sharpe
The first evidence of cornetist Kirk Knuffke's hook up with Michael Bisio surfaced on the bassist's alluring Accortet (Relative Pitch, 2015), presaging a continuing string of further collaborations. So perhaps it was inevitable that another Bisio mainstay, pianist Matthew Shipp, would enter into the mix at some point. The surprise is that it is on a ...
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