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Jimmy Halperin: High And Outside
by Ken Hohman
Pianist Lennie Tristano's music was in many ways more complex than bebop, featuring a different harmonic language and driven by long, freely improvised melodic lines over a carefully modulated rhythm section. Tristano's disciple, saxophonist Lee Konitz, was the most creative interpreter of this approach and demonstrated its limitless possibilities over eight decades before his passing in ...
Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite
by Alberto Bazzurro
La pianista e compositrice canadese--ma ormai newyorchese d'adozione--Kris Davis, fra le personalità più interessanti affermatesi nel jazz di questa prima fetta di terzo millennio, va qui oltre quanto da lei fatto finora, almeno concettualmente, visto che si abbina a uno degi quartetti d'archi a sua volta più illustri di questi stessi anni per attraversare una propria ...
Emanuele Parrini: Animal Farm
by Neri Pollastri
Nuovo capitolo del percorso artistico di Emanuele Parrini, che aggiunge alla sua storica formazione --con Giovanni Maier al contrabbasso e Andrea Melani alla batteria--Piero Bittolo Bon a flauti e sax baritono e Domenico Caliri alla chitarra. Il violinista toscano aveva da tempo messo a punto il materiale, ispirato come da titolo al romanzo di George Orwell, ...
Eddie Allen: The Rhythm
by Jack Bowers
Brooklyn-based trumpeter Eddie Allen and his well-groomed sextet, PUSH, truly are rhythm-focused, as they prove time and again on Allen's ninth recording as leader of his own group. Whatever the tone or tempo, PUSH swings its merry way through a dozen bright and upbeat tunes, most written and all arranged by Allen, wherein strong and dazzling ...
Tim Brady: For Electric Guitar
by Glenn Astarita
For Electric Guitar stands as a major artistic statement from Montréal-based composer and electric guitarist Tim Brady. He began playing guitar at age eleven, initially teaching himself acoustic folk styles before transitioning to electric guitar during his teenage years. Brady later pursued formal training at Concordia University and the New England Conservatory, establishing the groundwork for ...
Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite
by Glenn Astarita
Kris Davis, the Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based pianist and composer, stands as one of contemporary jazz’ most visionary figures. A master improviser and bandleader, she has earned multiple DownBeat Critics Poll Pianist of the Year honors, received a Doris Duke Artist Award and co-led the 2023 Grammy-winning album New Standards Vol. 1 (Candid, 2023) for Best Jazz Instrumental ...
Betty Bryant: Nothin' Better To Do...
by Pierre Giroux
Betty Bryant's nothin' better to do.. radiates the natural confidence of a seasoned club date, where the music speaks for itself. A pianist, singer, and composer whose artistry has been shaped by decades of experience rather than trends (at the impressive age of 96), Bryant brings a storyteller's instinct and a deep respect for melody to ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Blooming Tall Phlox
by Tyran Grillo
For this quintet outing, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff is joined by Verneri Pohjola on trumpet and flugelhorn, Panu Savolainen on vibraphone, Antti Lotjonen on double bass, and Olavi Louhivuori on drums and percussion. Together they move through a sequence of 15 originals that feel less composed than remembered, as though the music were lifted from ...
Yelena Eckemoff: In The Shadow Of A Cloud
by Tyran Grillo
Following her successful quintet outing, Blooming Tall Phlox, pianist Yelena Eckemoff retains the ensemble's name while quietly reshaping its interior life, recalibrating the personnel for another generous two-disc statement. Joined this time by Chris Potter on reeds and flute, Adam Rogers on electric guitar, Drew Gress on double bass, and Gerald Cleaver on drums, Eckemoff unfurls ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Desert
by Tyran Grillo
After two expansive collections that gathered large ensembles and formidable names, Yelena Eckemoff chooses subtraction. Desert arrives as a deliberate narrowing of the horizon, a journey defined not by accumulation but by exposure. Joined by Paul McCandless on an assortment of reeds and winds, Arild Andersen on bass, and Peter Erskine on drums and percussion, Eckemoff ...
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