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Matthew Shipp: Codebreaker
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Matthew Shipp has a habit of putting out piano solo and piano trio CDs in quick succession. In 2020, it was the solo set Piano Equation (Tao Forms) and the trio outing The Unidentifiable (ESP Disk). In 2021 he offers up Village Mothership (Tao Forms), a trio offering, and the solo set—and the subject of ...
Lee Heerspink: Monsters' Impromptu
by Jack Bowers
There is ample energy and enthusiasm on Michigan-based guitarist Lee Heerspink's debut recording, Monsters' Impromptu, which consists of seven of the leader's funk/fusion-based compositions performed by an admirable quintet whose members are clearly in sync with Heerspink's assertive point of view, and lend him their unflagging support. Six of the seven compositions are ...
Eric Wyatt: A Song of Hope
by Jack Bowers
On A Song of Hope, his second album for Whaling City Sound, saxophonist Eric Wyatt offers more than hope; he offers assurance that contemporary jazz is alive and well in and around his home base of Brooklyn, NY. Wyatt, the godson of another rather well-known saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, performs in groups of various sizes, from quartet ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Dots - Works For Percussion and Woodwinds
by Karl Ackermann
Roscoe Mitchell occupies a special place in the pantheon of music. He is a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin, the California Institute of the Arts and Mills College in Oakland, California. ...
Ksenia Parkhatskaya: Colours
by William H. Snyder
Lionel Messi has left Barcelona but excellence hasn't. Barcelona-based Ksenia Parkhatskaya is a performer whose skills are as varied in the creative arts as Senor Messi's are on the football pitch. The breadth of her talent is unique making it difficult to excel in one thing, but blessed as she is, she excels in all she ...
Enrico Rava: Edizione Speciale
by Giuseppe Segala
Nel 2019 Enrico Rava ha tagliato il nobile traguardo degli ottant'anni. Lo ha fatto con la leggerezza densa di sostanza, di sensibilità che hanno sempre distinto il suo operato. In questo documento proveniente da un concerto in Belgio, all'Antwerp Jazz Middelheim Festival, si avverte tutta la baldanza della spontaneità, della estroversione che scatta spesso nei rapporti ...
Marco Colonna: Offering
by Neri Pollastri
Marco Colonna prosegue lo sviluppo della pratica del solo, alternando strumenti, repertori e forme espressive, senza però mai tradire né la nitidezza del suono—che fa di lui uno degli interpreti delle ance più affascinanti non solo d'Italia—né la progettualità drammaturgica delle performances, quasi sempre, come in questo caso, riprese dal vivo. Stavolta il programma ...
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings
by Chris May
There is a saying in the opera world which, though innocuous on the face of it, damns a work before the overture has begun let alone after the fat lady sings. The saying, beloved of breathless publicists deaf to its implication, is that such and such an opera is “rarely performed." The reason it ...
Lady Millea: I Don't Mind Missing You
by Richard J Salvucci
The publicist's materials accompanying this release characterize newcomer Lady Millea as something “akin to 'Sarah Vaughn meets Karen Carpenter.'" Ok. For the record, Lady Millea was indeed a pleasant surprise, if not exactly a revelation on that level. She sings a selection of originals by J. Frederick Millea, aka “L.A.Cowboy." She brings very much in mind ...
Darius Jones: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation)
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Darius Jones' solo recording Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) is the embodiment of the word unpasteurized. Captured in the fall of 2019, the music is raw and untreated. Maybe 'pure' is a better word here. The musician known for his muscular approach to the alto saxophone lowers the armored facade we all seem to ...
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