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Joe McPhee & Strings: We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un camerismo scuro, a tratti persino torvo, arcigno, non privo di asperità, contrassegna questo album, inciso a Brooklyn nell'ottobre 2021. Il primo nome in ditta è quello dell'oggi ottantaseienne polistrumentista (in realtà qui impegnato unicamente al sax tenore, oltre che alla voce, detta) di Miami Joe McPhee, gloriosa figura di riferimento delle avanguardie post e para-free, ...
Roberto Ottaviano: Dark Sides
by Giuseppe Segala
Lavoro intenso, Dark Sides. Autentico, ricco di sfumature e di contrasti. Spiritualità e bagliori sinistri vi si mescolano come in una tragedia greca. Amarezza avvolge i lati oscuri evocati dal titolo. Lamento e presagio già impregnano l'atmosfera del brano introduttivo, “A Long Deception," un lungo inganno tracciato da intervalli enigmatici, trafitto da suoni metallici con lungo ...
Eva Novoa: Solo (I)
by Mike Jurkovic
Pianist-composer Eva Novoa can be a difficult listen from time to time. Her modulations. Her incantations. Her dynamic agility to take any moment behind her instrument can be disconcerting to an audience that has not learned to think or imagine broader horizons for themselves. So let us be thankful Novoa took to Manhattan's Sear Sound Studios ...
Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall: Triangles
by John Sharpe
Violinist Olivia Moore and accordionist Adam Fairhall unveil a strikingly agile dialogue on their debut Triangles. This stylistically porous album refracts folk lineage, jazz instinct and chamber interplay into something quietly subversive. Moore arrives via folk and Indian classical study, while Fairhall--more often heard at the piano--draws from an eclectic hinterland of solo performance, early jazz, ...
Rory Gallagher: The Best of Rory Gallagher At The BBC
by Doug Collette
The Best of Rory Gallagher at the BBC is actually a distillation of a 20-disc box, compact disc 15 of which is the second half of this compilation. And, like its larger counterpart, it serves as not only a retrospective on Gallagher's career as a whole (not just at the Beeb), but also reaffirmation of the ...
Dave Stapleton: Quiet Fire
by Geno Thackara
Fourteen years on from the previous album under his own name, the music world is a different place, and indeed, Dave Stapleton is a very different musician. While his distinct ear for melody is recognizable, this affair is a world away from 2012's Flight (Edition). The pianist's breakthrough-at-the-time solo outing was an ambitious and expansive chamber-jazz ...
Carolyn Trowbridge: Found Memories
by Jerome Wilson
There has been a notable increase in the number of prominent vibraphone players in the creative music world as 2026 unfolds. People like Joel Ross, Patricia Brennan, Sasha Berliner, and Simon Moullier have all been making names for themselves the past few years. Another one to pay attention to is Carolyn Trowbridge out of Austin, Texas. ...
Teresa James: Bad at Being Good
by Jim Trageser
She may have been based out of Los Angeles for the past four-plus decades, but Teresa James' Texas roots still shine through on her 14th full- length release as co-leader. Given that her husband and co-leader, Terry Wilson, was also raised in Texas, as was drummer Tony Braunagel (who plays all but two songs), well, that ...
Marilyn Crispell, Anders Jormin: Memento
by Neil Duggan
US pianist Marilyn Crispell and Swedish bassist Anders Jormin filter their decades of musical experience and improvisational instinct into Memento, their debut duo recording. Combining original compositions with four freely created pieces, the album focuses on the universal themes of memory and loss. Crispell, recently honored with a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts ...
Ingrid Jensen: Landings
by Pierre Giroux
On Landings, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen convenes a quartet that thrives on speed and alertness. With organist Gary Versace, guitarist Marvin Sewell, and drummer Jon Wikan, she leads a band capable of sharp turns and open-road lyricism in the same breath. The music feels meticulously shaped yet gloriously unbound; an ensemble language forged in deep listening and ...
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