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Pipeline: Ahead Of July
by Mark Corroto
With most recordings, listeners are conditioned to identify a leader. Typically, it is the artist whose name appears on the cover, or occasionally the composer responsible for the material. Pipeline upends that expectation. This is unequivocally an ensemble recording, and to further complicate matters, all of the music is collectively credited. For those familiar with the ...
Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul
by Angelo Leonardi
Cantante argentina ventiseienne, Anita Donndorff pubblica il secondo album dopo l'autoprodotto You Invade All My Dreams, intimo debutto del 2021 realizzato col pianista Dante Picca. Pubblicata dalla Fresh Sound, la selezione è frutto di un ricercato lavoro realizzato tra l'Argentina e gli Stati Uniti. Nel 2024 Anita ha inciso a New York due tracce ...
Peter Furlan Project: Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar
by Jack Bowers
The third album by the Peter Furlan Project, the New York-born and based saxophonist's splendid nonet, was recorded Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar in Nyack, NY, on June 20-21, 2025. The concert's nine numbers, all written and arranged by Furlan, travel along a conventional straight-ahead path whose sunny melodic and harmonic byways allow ample ...
Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love
by Ian Patterson
There is no escaping one's formative years when music--and much else--leaves an indelible mark, like a tattoo on the soul. For Lafayette Gilchrist, the jazz, hip-hop, funk and soul he imbibed growing up in Washington D.C. has been at the heart of New Volcanoes since its launch in 1993. In the intervening years, Baltimore-based Lafayette has ...
Ivo Perelman and Wadada Leo Smith: Duologues 5
by Don Phipps
In the decade of the 2020s, the prolific tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman has recorded several improvised duet recordings with such jazz luminaries as trumpeter Nate Wooley, trombonist Ray Anderson, drummer/pianist Tyshawn Sorey, fellow tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, drummer Tom Rainey, and pianist Matthew Shipp. Even more incredible is that over the same timeframe, he has done ...
Bruno Biriaco Saxes Machine: Nouami
by Alberto Bazzurro
Riunendo i sei brani dell'unico album inciso dalla sua creatura “a tutto sax" nel gennaio 1978 con un paio di pezzi recenti, l'oggi settantaseienne Bruno Biriaco, che sposò l'idea di questa singolare formazione (pur esistendo all'epoca già i primi quartetti totalmente sassofonistici, dal WSQ al Rova, agli stessi Virtuosi di Cave, a casa nostra) all'indomani della ...
Florian Ross/WDR Big Band: Plans & Drawers
by Jack Bowers
While Plans & Drawers may seem an odd name for an album of big-band jazz, the fact is that German-born composer and arranger Florian Ross had no “plans" to record before the opportunity arose to produce a second album with his home country's world-class WDR Big Band Cologne, and many of his compositions had been consigned ...
Lars Fredrik Frøislie: Gamle Mester
by Glenn Astarita
Lars Fredrik Frøislie ranks among the most accomplished keyboardists working in contemporary progressive rock. Best known as the primary keyboardist and compositional force behind Norway's Wobbler, he has helped restore the scope and discipline of 1970s symphonic prog without reducing it to homage. Beyond that role, Frøislie contributes to various projects and composes for film and ...
Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 4
by Don Phipps
On Polarity 4, their fourth album of collaborative improvisations, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and trumpeter Nate Wooley create a diverse array of soundscapes. The spontaneous compositions exhibit fluid, arcing energy that skips around like a hummingbird darting towards clusters of brightly colored rhododendron blooms. Both musicians demonstrate their trademark virtuosity: Perelman with his supreme embouchure control, ...
Joëlle Léandre, Andrzej Karałow: Flint
by Neri Pollastri
Classe 1991, polacco di Łódź, Andrzej Karałow è un pianista di formazione classico-contemporanea, noto per le collaborazioni con orchestre sinfoniche e per le sue composizioni, ma anche dedito all'improvvisazione, che pratica in campi disparati, talvolta anche con artisti visuali. In questo disco lo troviamo all'opera con Joëlle Léandre, Maestra dell'improvvisazione europea, in una registrazione fatta a ...
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