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Whit Dickey: Morph
by Karl Ackermann
Two players on Morph, Matthew Shipp and Nate Wooley, hardly need an introduction to those who venture into free jazz or experimental waters. But the leader, free jazz drummer Whit Dickey, is more of an enigma. Though prolific, his credits are more often in a supporting role. Dickey has been working with Shipp for nearly four ...
Amaury Faye: Buran
by Luke Seabright
There is no greater leap of faith for a musician than to leave the relative security of a band (with its fresh input of ideas and, let's face it, handy support when they mess up) and go down the solo road. And yet, especially for a pianist who claims Brad Mehldau as his primary inspiration, it ...
Beloveds: Så tar natten dig åter
by Samuel Stroup
Så tar natten dig åter, the debut album by Swedish septet Beloveds is at once assertive and tender. The music—jazz with roots in European folk music and with a keen focus on improvisation—is composed and set to lyrics by Beloveds' singer and leader Channa Riedel. Riedel, a musician-poet, penned some of the lyrics herself, while others ...
Stéphane Spira, Giovanni Mirabassi: Improkofiev
by Thomas Fletcher
Dwelling on previous influences and past concepts to construct a fresh approach to an idea is a common approach in jazz. The title of this album indicates a pathway into the art of giving classical repertoire some jazz characteristics. Introduced to Prokofiev around 2005 by a Turkish jazz presenter and radio host, Stéphane Spira ...
Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here
by Chris May
Kansas Smitty's is the house band at a London jazz bar of the same name. Band and bar are fronted by the American-Italian alto saxophonist, clarinetist and bass clarinetist Giacomo Smith, who with guitarist David Archer wrote most of the material on this album. The band's style embraces swing era Kansas City through to more recent ...
Sooon: Youchz Now
by John Eyles
Founded in 2018, the trio Sooon (there are good reasons for it having three O's) comprises Irish-Swiss pianist John Wolf Brennan, Swiss vocalist Sonja Morgenegg and Haifa-born Palestinian percussionist Tony Majdalani. From 2012 onwards, Brennan and Majdalini were in the trio Pilgrims together, alongside guitarist Marco Jencarelli but, prior to Sooon, Morgenegg had no experience with ...
Chris Gall - Bernhard Schimpelsberger: Myriad
by Geno Thackara
If there's one thing that makes Myriad such a subtly thrilling success, it is compatibility. Chris Gall has a consummately melodic voice at the piano with a relentless pulse running through everything, however heavy or light. Bernhard Schimpelsberger is a versatile percussionist whose rhythmic sense is bolstered by an extensive palette of sounds and tones. Somehow ...
Paul Flaherty / Randall Colbourne / James Chumley Hunt / Mike Roberson: Borrowed From Children
by Mark Corroto
Let's misquote a Rolling Stones' lyric here, with the music of Paul Flaherty “you can always get what you want," and maybe to a greater extent, “you get what you need." For more decades than he might want to count, the saxophonist has been making his self-described 'hated music.' We're talking hate as in a bugaboo, ...
Peripheral Vision: Irrational Revelation And Mutual Humiliation
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation sees Peripheral Vision celebrating their outfit's ten-year anniversary of collaboration. During that time, the group has released four studio albums and one live recording (Spectable: Live!, 2011), each time presenting fresh and stirring new music written by the leaders Don Scott and Michael Herring. More than anything though, the Canadian quartet ...
Madre Vaca: Winterreise
by Jack Bowers
For its third recording, the Florida-based jazz octet Madre Vaca has chosen to perform music by Franz Schubert—hold it; stop right there! Music by who? Yes, that's what it says—music by none other than Franz Schubert (1797-1828), an Austrian composer of what we know as classical music who in his brief lifetime wrote more than 600 ...
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