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Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two
by Mark Sullivan
Visionary trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell presents another gift from his late career. The third release on his own Ndeya label, it follows the re-release of his debut album Vernal Equinox (Ndeya, 2020) and is a sequel to Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (Ndeya, 2018). The structure is a bit different, still eight tracks, but organized as ...
Mark Murphy, Folk Artist: Hiding Place
by C. Michael Bailey
Mark Murphy's 2018 release Pocketful of Rainbows (Self Produced, 2018) was a surprise stand-out recording that year. Now, this Mark Murphy is not that Mark Murphy (1932 -2015), icon of jazz vocals. This Mark Murphy is a singer/songwriter whose 2016 release, Slip Away (Mini Movie) scored points for one of Downbeat Magazine's recordings of that year. ...
Markus Reuter: The Truce
by Chris M. Slawecki
Markus Reuter's first steps into music were as a pianist. But then Reuter learned to play the Chapman Stick, studied in Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft, and mastered the digital U8 Touch Guitar. The freedom of these electronic sound palettes, combined with his genuine guitar virtuosity and piano background, all give Reuter's guitar playing structure and vision ...
Gebhard Ullmann, Hans Lüdemann, Oliver Potratz, Eric Schaefer: Mikropuls
by Alberto Bazzurro
Nel corso dei decenni, Gebhard Ullmann ci ha abituati particolarmente bene, per cui questo pur ottimo album, inciso nel corso del Jazzreis Berlin 2017 e condiviso, in ditta, con gli alti tre membri del quartetto che l'ha realizzato, ci pare normale, nella sua limitata progettualità, per un suono (di gruppo, ma anche individuale) magari anche più ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords
by Karl Ackermann
The skillfully designed cover art tells part of the story; a leaf--half as nature intended--the remainder, a circuit board doppelganger. The pastoral soundscapes associated with the music of Grammy-winning composer/bandleader Maria Schneider belie her activist alter-ego. An outspoken critic of copyright protections, prejudicial revenue schemes and the abuses of “big data," Schneider has authored op-eds and ...
Pedro Melo Alves: In Igma
by Troy Dostert
Since his remarkable debut as a leader in 2017, Omniae Ensemble (Nischo Records), drummer and composer Pedro Melo Alves has quickly established himself as a vital force in the Portuguese jazz scene. With an uncompromising sensibility equally committed to avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical music, not to mention the jazz-rock experimentalism of his work with Rite ...
Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis: Blood Moon
by John Sharpe
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and Canadian pianist Kris Davis recognized each other as kindred spirits early on after the German's move to New York City. They have remained close collaborators ever since. So much so that it's almost a surprise that this is their first record as a twosome. They've honed their shared sensibilities in Laubrock's Anti-House, ...
Fredrik Ljungkvist - Kris Davis - Ole Morten Vågan - Øyvind Skarbø: Inland Empire
by Glenn Astarita
Rising star American pianist Kris Davis aligns with A-list Scandinavian progressive jazz artists for a semi-structured program that, among numerous positives, highlights the ensemble's persuasive interactions amid a capacious soundstage, spanning sublime progressions, angular unison choruses and geometrical paradigm shifts. But the musicians unrelenting creativity and thoughtful improvisations spark a winning formula not always easily attainable ...
Gaetano Partipilo: Boom Collective - Live Somewhere
by Chris M. Slawecki
Italian saxophonist Gaetano Partipilo has been playing and studying music since he was eight. After conservatory studies, Partipilo was engaged to perform by the likes of Mark Murphy, Enrico Rava and Tony Scott. Having spent several months in New York City, Partipilo returned to Italy where he formed the Urban Society project, with whom he recorded ...
Evgeny Sivtsov: Zoo
by Alberto Bazzurro
Ci sono reminiscenze di molto pianismo jazz, quello dell'albero maestro, ma anche qualche inflessione classicheggiante (moderata, invero), probabile frutto delle sue origini, nell'approccio che il giovane pianista russo Evgeny Sivtsov evidenzia in questo suo lavoro, inciso nel novembre 2017 ai Tedesco Studios, New Jersey, ma missato e masterizzato in quel di Mosca. C'è ...
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