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Lara St. John: Key of A | Beethoven Sonata #9 / Franck Sonata
by C. Michael Bailey
It is always a worthy question to ask when a pairing like Beethoven's notorious “Kreutzer" sonata with Franck's frankly demonic violin sonata, not to mention the inspired inclusion of Kreisler's “Schön Rosmarin," thrown in for giggles, is released. There is clever reasoning to programming both sonatas on the same disc and it is not simply that ...
Daniele Sepe: Le nuove avventure di Capitan Capitone
by Neri Pollastri
Musicista “totale," ben più che apprezzato jazzista, Daniele Sepe ha sempre amato i progetti ricchi di stimoli e di collaboratori (anche se in genere non altrettanto ricchi a livello di budget di produzione) nei quali comporre scintillanti mosaici fatti di tessere anche diversissime tra loro. Così, dopo aver sfornato The Cat with the Hat, eccellente omaggio ...
Michelangelo Scandroglio: In the Eyes of the Whale
by Neri Pollastri
Tra i non pochi nuovi talenti che la penisola sforna nel campo del jazz, un posto di rilievo spetta al ventiquattrenne contrabbassista toscano Michelangelo Scandroglio, qui alla prima prova da leader alla testa di una formazione internazionale a struttura variabile composta da giovani talenti. Il programma del disco prevede sette composizioni originali, tutte a ...
Ways + Simon Toldam: Fortunes
by Troy Dostert
Two iconoclasts currently generating interest in their native Canada and beyond, alto saxophonist Brodie West and drummer Evan Cartwright can be found playing in widely varying contexts, frequently in a duo format under the moniker Ways. Often joined by pianists of similar, boundary-stretching temperament, West and Cartwright refuse to trade in jazz cliches or stay comfortably ...
Gordon Grdina Septet: Resist
by Mike Jurkovic
It takes a leap of unconditional faith to enter wholly the resistance. A mindset steadied for the long haul, readied for the next. On his third, integral, must-listen-to release of 2020, Canadian oudist/guitarist/composer Gordon Grdina grandly, darkly, intently, espouses all that and more. Hellbent on creating art as a political act, the sprawling, at times majestic ...
Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Joe Lovano: Arctic Riff
by Thomas Fletcher
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio is amongst the most evident and high-profile jazz groups that roam the Polish scene. Celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary playing together only last year, the ensemble is widely renowned for challenging the piano trio and broadening its sound. Having collaborated with luminary wind players such as Jan Garbarek, Arthur Blythe and John Surman, ...
Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: InWhatStrumentals
by Karl Ackermann
In 2003 Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd released In What Language?, a hybrid jazz/hip hop response to post-9/11 American paranoia. Inspired by many related injustices, the inflection point was the extended detention, handcuffing and humiliation of a prominent Iranian filmmaker passing through JFK International Airport. Seventeen years later America was mired in multiple unprecedented crises, giving ...
Tony Oxley: Beaming
by John Eyles
Since 2010, album releases from drummer Tony Oxle (born 1938) have become increasingly scarce and poignant. A Birthday Tribute—75 Years (Incus, 2013) comprised live recordings from 1977 and 1993—featuring trombonist Paul Rutherford and guitarist Derek Bailey, respectively, both long gone—issued to mark Oxley's birthday. Its appearance on Incus was a reminder that ...
New York Contemporary Five: Consequences Revisited
by Mark Corroto
This 2020 reissue of the New York Contemporary Five recordings from 1963-64 can't help but draw one's attention to the social unrest occurring in America in 2020. In 1964 the riots in Harlem and Philadelphia over police brutality were followed by similar riots a few years later in Watts, Newark, Detroit, etc. In the growing civil ...
World Sanguine Report: Skeleton Blush
by Bruce Lindsay
Don't be fooled by the appearance of “sanguine" in the band name. World Sanguine Report is not a band given to gentle optimism, or relaxed acceptance of whatever situation it's in. Look instead to the meaning of the word in heraldic terms—blood red. Skeleton Blush is filled with hard-edged, powerful and uncompromising songs, an album that ...
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