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David Ecker: How to Rebuild
by Carl Medsker
Attempting to enhance jazz with classical music trappings is nothing new and has previously yielded mixed results. Often, the music comes across as saccharine, or the strings serve as mere window dressing to add a faux classical touch. At best, when the two worlds are creatively combined, the emergent results are something new and vibrant. Frequently, ...
Clay Wulbrecht: The Clockmaster
by Jack Bowers
Composer and pianist Clay Wulbrecht's new album, Clockmaster, has a sound and cadence all its own. The sound is produced using various blends of instruments, plus reverb, electronics and perhaps other special effects, while the rhythms flow naturally from their pop, rock, blues, R&B and funk roots into Wulbrecht's imaginative hands. The question ...
Max Alduca: Monastery
by Barry O'Sullivan
Max Alduca is an Australian in-demand bassist who regularly tours nationally and internationally. On this debut album as a leader, he draws inspiration from a personal journey through music, reflecting themes of interconnectedness, trust and hope while paying homage to his teachers and collaborators. It is a culmination of his experiences touring Scandinavia with a Danish ...
Elisabetta Antonini, Alessandro Contini: [R]evolution
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by Neri Pollastri
Una riflessione musicale sull'arte e la sua rivoluzionaria capacità di cambiamento di sguardi sul mondo: questa l'ispirazione che muove [R]evolution, lavoro congiunto di Elisabetta Antonini e Alessandro Contini, compagni nella vita e per la prima volta anche in un'esperienza artistica. Il disco si suddivide in nove brani, quasi tutti dedicati a un artista “rivoluzionario," ...
Denny Zeitlin: With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers
by Dan McClenaghan
Musical memories from childhood have a way of sticking. For some, it might be an encounter with Beethoven from a dusty stack of old albums packed away in the parental record collection. For others, it might be the (then, 1954) modern surge of Bill Haley and the Comets shaking, rattling and rolling into the kitchen to ...
Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus: The Children & The Warlock
by Jack Bowers
A parodist might quip that Trio Contrafactus is simply another name for a quartet, as that is what pianist and entreprenuer Spike Wilner is leading on his new recording, The Children & the Warlock, wherein Wilner and his rhythm section (Paul Gill, bass; Anthony Pinciotti, drums) are flanked by renowned tenor saxophonist George Garzone.
Anaïs Drago: Relevé Live
by Neri Pollastri
Nato all'inizio del 2023 grazie al progetto WeStart di Novara Jazz e inizialmente denominato Terre Ballerine, il trio della violinista Anaïs Drago esce adesso con il suo primo album, registrato poche settimane dopo che avevamo potuto apprezzarne la qualità in un suo concerto al PARC di Firenze. Anche il disco è registrato dal vivo, durante due ...
Alberto Pinton Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet
by Alberto Bazzurro
Sa molto di Jimmy Giuffre la suite in tre movimenti che dà il titolo--occupandone il cuore--a questo nuovo, notevole lavoro del polistrumentista veneziano Alberto Pinton, ormai da tempo immemorabile di stanza a Stoccolma, dove ha di fatto costruito la sua intera carriera, forte di una buona quindicina di album a proprio nome, tendenzialmente, come si dice ...
Tim Jago: Time Shift
by Kyle Simpler
Some artists aim for a signature sound by adhering closely to genre conventions. Guitarist Tim Jago takes a different approach. Drawing deeply from the jazz tradition, Jago forges a unique path that blends personal expression with reverence for his influences. With his debut solo release, Time Shift, the Australian-born, New York-based guitarist delivers an album that ...
Three-Layer Cake: Sounds The Color Of Grounds
by Mark Corroto
The trio of Mike Watt, Brandon Seabrook and Mike Pride began as a pandemic-era experiment, exchanging music files remotely to create Stove Top (RareNoise, 2021). Now, as Three-Layer Cake, they return with Sounds The Color Of Grounds, a record that reveals a fully realized and cohesive jazz-punk--or perhaps punk-jazz--ensemble. Watt, etched into punk rock's ...
