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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages
by Kyle Simpler
Sometimes musicians with serious chops take their music a little too seriously. Others, however, manage to combine talent and humor in a way that proves infectious. The Ed Palermo Big Band is one of the best examples of the latter. With albums drawing on such diverse influences as Frank Zappa, Paul Butterfield, and King Crimson, Palermo ...
Jed Levy: Faces and Places
by Jack Kenny
This is a beautiful album that is fired up right from the start. The sound of the tenor is faintly reminiscent of Warne Marsh. There is no seeking after angularity. Jed Levy's way with melody is completely natural and integrated into the quintet, though there are surprises all the way through the improvisations. Jed ...
Finn Wiest: Aurora
by La-Faithia White
Award-winning drummer Finn Wiest is a first-call sideman in the New York City Jazz scene. He has just finished his Master's degree at the City College of New York with Carl Allen, Steve Wilson and Mike Holobar. Born in Biberach An Der Riss, Germany, Wiest began playing drums at the age of four. He ...
Jordi Cassagne Barbastelle: Vastige Étesién
by Alberto Bazzurro
Disco di indiscutibile eleganza e partecipazione corale lontana da personalismi di sorta, questo del quintetto Barbastelle, guidato dal bassista del sud-ovest francese Jordi Cassagne, dal 2014 di stanza a Bruxelles. Vi trovano posto otto sue composizioni originali, tutte palesemente collegate fra loro nel segno di un tono estremamente rigoroso, coerente, quasi a comporre una specie di ...
Ofri Nehemya: Time Traveler
by Neil Duggan
This is the debut album from Israeli drummer and composer Ofri Nehemya. It features compositions written over a decade ago that have developed and evolved over the intervening years as his influences widened and his career took flight. As a 17-year-old Nehemya joined Israeli saxophonist Eli Degibri quartet before moving to play on a ...
Alex McLaughlin: A Brand New State
by Jack Bowers
After spending years as a performer and educator, bassist Alex McLaughlin has recorded his first album, A Brand New State, on which he leads an able quartet whose front-line spokesperson is the renowned trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. At the insistence of its initiator and producer, drummer Ulysses Owen Jr., the album comprises eight of ...
Seungmin Jung: Anecdotes
by Dan McClenaghan
Korean-born bassist Seungmin Jung journeyed to America to study at the Manhattan School of Music. His debut album, Anecdotes features a cohesive sound crafted by a group of like-minded international players who go deep into the leader's compositions.The opener, “Blue," has a melancholy flavor spiced with hope. Trumpet and saxophone rise into the sky; ...
Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers
by Vincenzo Roggero
Unica seduta di registrazione dal 23 al 25 agosto 2023, due CD, Ancestral Numbers I e Ancestral Numbers II, usciti a qualche mese di distanza, stessa fonte di ispirazione--il ricordo della nonna materna e la sua influenza nella famiglia--stessa ricerca di relazioni tra numeri, genealogie e storie dettate dallo scorrere del tempo. È questa la prima ...
Ronan Guilfoyle's Bemusement Arcade: At Swing, Two Birds
by Ian Patterson
If there were Grammys for the most punning name for a jazz band, or for the most enigmatic album title, then Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle could well bag a brace. The title of the wonderfully coined Bemusement Arcade's debut album is a wordplay on Irish humorist Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (Longman Green & Co., ...
The Hemphill Stringtet: The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
by Troy Dostert
One of the most multifaceted saxophonists to come out of the 1970s-80s jazz avant-garde, Julius Hemphill exuded both fervid power and delicate sensitivity, always with an underpinning of swing to help anchor him within the jazz tradition. While his iconic releases like Dogon A.D. (Mbari, 1972) and Flat-Out Jump Suite (Black Saint, 1980) are rightly considered ...
