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Thapelo Lekoane: Tapestry
by Lucy Jacobs
Tapestry is Thapelo Lekoanes' stunning debut album. Lekoane is a South African artist with a long-standing career as a music director, vocalist and songwriter. Through these experiences, Lekoane has noticeably drawn from a deep well of jazz, folk, soul and world influences to produce this work. These influences are present in the album's sound which has ...
Lani Hall Featuring Herb Alpert: Seasons of Love
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Vocalist and author Lani Hall has not released an album of her own in 20 years. That is our loss, for sure. Her last effort--not counting her work with husband Herb Alpert on his tours and on a number of his fine Grammy-winning sessions--was in 1998. With Seasons of Love Hall's stepping out in front shows ...
Brent Laidler: Wouldn't Be Here Without You
by Richard J Salvucci
Stan Getz once said of the best bossa players that they could swing hard without appearing to try. It is also obvious that one of the few good things to come out of the Covid pandemic has been music intended to calm things down a bit. For example, John Pizzarelli's Better Days Ahead(Ghostlight Records, 2021), but ...
Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola: Open
by Mark Corroto
While playing Open, the listener might get the notion that sometimes the commandments must be broken. Proscribing the act of listening violates the first rule of ambient music. Listening, at least non-passive listening to the musician-created atmospheric soundscapes is frowned upon. Just like the outdated adage that children should be seen but not heard, ambient music ...
Richard Pellegrin: Passage
by Jane Kozhevnikova
Passage is an improvised piano album by Rich Pellegrin, a continuation of his solo album Solitude (OA2, 2021). Both Solitude and Passage were recorded during the same sessions in summer 2019 at Langley Methodist Church (Langley, WA). After multiple releases from Pellegrin's quintet, these two solo albums stand out as an intimate and vulnerable exploration of ...
Catherine Russell: Send for Me
by Angelo Leonardi
Il valore della tradizione. È l'aspetto che la cantante Catherine Russell ribadisce dal 2006, quando pubblicò il suo primo album da leader, dopo anni di lavoro come corista con Donal Fagen, gli Steely Dan, Wynton Marsalis, Madonna, David Bowie e altri. Quando terminò la collaborazione col cantante britannico dopo l'uscita di Reality (Iso Records 2003), Catherine ...
Christopher Kunz, Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht
by Alberto Bazzurro
Facendo largo uso delle pratiche più “contemporanee" (jazzisticamente parlando ma non solo) dei rispettivi strumenti, e nella loro reciprocità (quindi da un'ottica abbastanza lontana da quelli che sono un po' i sacri testi, i modelli di riferimento, in materia, vale a dire gli storici duetti coltraniani con Elvin Jones e Rashied Ali), peraltro senza spendersi in ...
Yannick Rieu Generation Quartet: Qui Qu'en Grogne
by Dan McClenaghan
Veteran jazz man Yannick Rieu, based in Montreal, was tagged back in 1988 as one of the top saxophonists in the world, his name mentioned alongside Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano and Courtney Pine. That set the bar high. A bit over thirty years have passed since he was presented with that high praise. Qui Qu'en Grogne, ...
Espen Eriksen Trio featuring Andy Sheppard: In The Mountains
by Gareth Thompson
Espen Eriksen uncorks a surprise at the end of this remarkable live album. For the closing cut, his trio takes on Krzysztof Komeda's theme tune for the 1968 urban horror flick Rosemary's Baby. To begin with, gothic piano hammerings and eerie bass scrapings replace Komeda's spooked female “la-la" vocals. Yet by the end, Eriksen's keyboard genius ...
Pepper Adams: Live at Room at the Top
by Edward Blanco
The late, great baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper" Adams III may be gone but he is certainly not forgotten, as Live at Room at the Top reveals in a spellbinding and blistering engagement documented but not released until now. Recorded at the University of Alberta Student Union at the Top, in September 1972, Adams and the ...
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