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Giacomo Papetti The Loom: Chorale
by Neri Pollastri
La metafora del telaio (The Loom) si attaglia senza dubbio molto bene a questa formazione del contrabbassista Giacomo Papetti: i quattro musicisti coinvolti, infatti, pur offrendo ciascuno un contributo di assoluto valore, non si prendono quasi affatto spazi solistici, ma per tutta la durata del lavoro collaborano alla creazione di una fitta e ricca tessitura collettiva, ...
Stefan Keune / Sandy Ewen / Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live At Moers
by Mark Corroto
This recording from the Moers Festival in May 2023, Germany, is dedicated to the late Hans Schneider. Bassist and label curator Damon Smith has made it a lifelong practice to seek out and collaborate with his musical heroes, a list that includes Jaap Blonk, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Kaiser and Vinny Golia. Naturally, that list also honors ...
Ivo Perelman: Armageddon Flower
by Mike Jurkovic
Ekphrastic by design, Armageddon Flower, the forty-seventh bold, forward-thinking testament pairing saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp is the duo's new zenith in a tireless exploration dating back nearly thirty years. It is another view from the pinnacle of their brotherhood that includes such watermark recordings as the symbiotic Live In Nuremberg (SMP, 2019), Fruition ...
Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)
by John Sharpe
Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons was underappreciated even at the height of his powers, but to those with ears attuned to the radical innovations of the loft jazz era, he was a galvanizing presence. That his legacy remains under-lit is due in part to his long-standing tenure in Cecil Taylor's incandescent orbit. Lyons was more than a ...
Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence (Live)
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il quintetto Pilgrim, diretto ormai da una quindicina d'anni dal tenorsassofonista svizzero Christoph Irniger, giunge con questo Human Intelligence al suo sesto album, portando avanti la logica di un suono piuttosto identitario, derivante dalla contemporanea presenza di piano acustico e chitarra elettrica, ma non solo: vi aleggia una risolutezza piuttosto palpabile, un impianto solido e generalmente ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air
by Vincenzo Roggero
Avventuroso e ambizioso Purposing the Air, nuovo progetto di Ingrid Laubrock, notevole sassofonista di origini tedesche qui nelle vesti di compositrice. Dal poema “Mood Librarian -a poem in koan" di Erica Hunt, ha estratto sessanta frammenti, trenta nel primo CD e trenta nel secondo, affidandoli a quattro duo dove l'elemento fisso è la voce mentre la ...
Elijah Jamal Asani: ,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,
by Glenn Astarita
Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Elijah Jamal Asani creates meditative ambient music rooted in his connection to the natural world. As Long As I Long To Memorise Your Sky captures his 2022 Grand Canyon artist residency through field recordings and asymmetrical, intricate compositions that serve as an audio journal of the canyon's dialogue between river and desert.
Gunhild Carling: Jazz Is My Lifestyle
by Richard J Salvucci
Sometimes there is a tendency to take a performance less than seriously, especially if an artist uses a bit of self-satire as part of the act. Pianist Victor Borge had this problem--"comic virtuoso" he was called--and even trumpet player Jack Sheldon, to a degree, had to blow the roof off sometimes to remind the audience of ...
Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring
by John Sharpe
Inspired by the 5000 year old Neolithic rock carvings pictured on the sleeve, Cup & Ring opens and closes with brooding, ritualistic pieces in which Larry Stabbins' breathy flute drifts like mist over Mark Sanders' deliberate, processional percussion. These atmospheric bookends, along with similarly spare interludes throughout, frame a set grounded more deeply in the language ...
Alberto Popolla: Really The Blues
by Stefano Merighi
Malgrado la sterzata tecnologica, subita o accolta con piacere sia dalla musica d'arte che d'intrattenimento, la lingua carsica del blues continua a mostrare il suo ghigno, spesso implicitamente e sotto mentite spoglie. Anche nelle musiche più complesse o lontane tra loro, il blues più che uno schema chiuso rimane un'attitudine, una pronuncia, un accenno ...
