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Yordan Kostov Ensemble: Intertwining a Fugue
by Nenad Georgievski
Globally, in these currently troubled times, jazz music is obviously challenged as commerce but it truly thrives as art. An unprecedented number of unknown artists, that come from all corners of the globe, are making excellent records. Sometimes the vitality of a certain art form is demonstrated not only by big records by major artists but ...
Artie Zaitz & Mark Kavuma featuring William Cleasby: Back To Back
by Chris May
Trumpeter Mark Kavuma and his band The Banger Factory have released three of the most enjoyable and well-crafted albums to come out of London in recent years: Kavuma (Ubuntu, 2018), with The Banger Factory there in all but name, The Banger Factory (Ubuntu, 2019), made by the fully formed band, and Arashi No Ato (Banger Factory ...
Jo Harrop: The Heart Wants
by Richard J Salvucci
Is it the behind-the-beat feel Ms Harrop gets, even when she is not? Or perhaps it is in the phrasing? Somehow, she puts a listener in mind of Keely Smith, which is a good thing. There are some very talented jazz singers in the United Kingdom; Jo Harrop is certainly one of them. Here is a ...
Chris Trinidad: Chris Trinidad's Changing Tides
by Chris M. Slawecki
During the course of 2021's lockdowns and distancing, music educator and bassist Chris Trinidad began to wonder if technology was bringing people together or keeping people apart. During these reflections, he reengaged with music he had written years earlier, for a release he titled Certain Times (Iridium, 2014). “The compositions on that album were written in ...
Dan Carillo & Common Good: Witness
by Jack Bowers
Common Good is a guitar-led trio whose music is message-driven, even though the message becomes largely irrelevent once the music has begun on Witness. Each of Dan Carillo's eight compositions was written in response to a social injustice, a social need, an heroic response to tyranny, a truth that lies hidden beneath layers of deception and ...
Ivo Perleman Quartet: Magic Dust
by Hrayr Attarian
On all his recordings, the accomplished improviser and saxophonist Ivo Perelman is known for building seamless rapport with his side musicians, regardless of whether he has a long- standing relationship or is newly collaborating with them. The stimulating and often mellifluous Magic Dust superbly demonstrates this synergy and the individual innovative skills of the band members. ...
JazzLab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jazzlab Orchestra has been a fixture on the jazz scene in Canada for nearly two decades. Their unique heavy sound features six brass and reed players with a relatively standard piano, bass and drum rhythm section, and they've captured that sound on several standalone recordings and presented it on more than 300 concert stages across North ...
Mannheimer Schlagwerk: The Numbers are Dancing
by Mark Sullivan
The percussion ensemble Mannheimer Schlagwerk used Steve Reich's 2009 composition Mallet Quartet (Nonesuch Records, 2011) as a template for these commissioned compositions. Four mallet instruments form the core of all of this music (the basic instrumentation is two marimbas and two vibraphones), but each of the composers takes their own path (and in some cases expands ...
Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March
by Jerome Wilson
This is the second release by drummer and vibraphonist Tomas Fujiwara's unique double trio with himself and Gerald Cleaver on drums, Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook on guitar and Taylor Ho Bynum and Ralph Alessi on brass, a group that can be configured as two trios, three pairs of instruments or something in between. The sound ...
Dave Hartl: "Tales from the Plague"
by Chris M. Slawecki
Dave Hartl “Tales of the Plague" Self-Produced 2021 Dave Hartl stretches his prowess on keyboards and many other instruments across several different ensembles in and around Philadelphia, PA: A quartet supporting a vocalist, a Linda Ronstadt tribute/review, a jazz-funk group (Musical Collusion, which also includes saxophonist ...
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