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Brain Salad: Brain Salad
by Mike Jurkovic
Hell-bent on establishing a jazz fusion group in Nashville, eager to perform not only its smart original music but also the complex works of such high-profile raconteurs as Hiromi, guitarist Mike Stern and Herbie Hancock, Nashville bassist Ben Griego sent the call out through Music City's flourishing jazz underground in the summer of 2018. Brain Salad ...
Mark Segger: Lift Off
by Glenn Astarita
This Canadian band throws almost everything imaginable at the studio walls in synchronous fashion. And while the album may be classified as an EP, due to its 29-minute length, quality is the underlying factor throughout. Based out of Edmonton, Segger started this band via its first album, The Beginning (18th Note Records, 2011). Nine-years later, the ...
Pat Battstone and Giorgia Santoro: Dream Notes
by Geannine Reid
Dream Notes is a collaborative effort by American pianist Patrick Battstone and Italian flautist Giorgia Santoro, along with Italian painter Daniela Chionna. Battstone connected to her paintings and had a strong affinity for her improvisational style. Previously her “Immersion" series of paintings was absorbed in his previous recording Elements. When she created the series, “Dream Notes," ...
Bossacucanova E Roberto Menescal: Bossa Got the Blues
by Chris M. Slawecki
Listening to Bossacucanova creates the impression that you're driving an exquisite Italian sportscar on a leisurely and sunny Sunday afternoon. You can hear the smooth purr of the engine powering your rhythm, soft but ferocious, a napping tiger, through the open window. Slicing through the breeze moderates its temperature so that it feels both warm and ...
The De Jong/Rebane/Kantonen Trio: Intercities
by Karl Ackermann
Intercities is the debut album from the trio of pianist Jetse de Jong, bassist Robert Rebane and drummer Roope Kantonen. The multi-national group hails from The Netherlands, Estonia, and Finland, respectively. All in their early twenties, the musicians met while attending the Conservatory of Amsterdam. De Jong, who studied both classical piano and jazz, was inspired ...
Christian Sands: Be Water
by Mike Jurkovic
A small opus which rises from within, “Intro," unassuming title and all, begins Be Water, a true wealth of music which pianist Christian Sands has designed to flow not only like the awe-inspiring, fear-inducing title element, but like mercy, freely and without boundary. And so it does. For next is “Sonar," a romping festival ...
Brian Landrus: For Now
by Jack Bowers
On For Now, his tenth album as leader, multi-reed specialist Brian Landrus gives voice to the many faces of romance, using as his means of expression a talented core quintet, amplified on several themes by a four-member string section, with arrangements by the notable opera composer Robert Aldridge. While Landrus plays four instruments including flute and ...
Marco von Orelli - Tommy Meier - Luca Sisera - Sheldon Suter: Lotus Crash
by Glenn Astarita
Recorded live at venues in Switzerland, the respective musicians comprising this quartet have made the rounds across Europe's fertile progressive jazz scene as leaders or valued sideman for numerous entities, largely focused on generating an outside-the-box schema in various shapes, forms and colors. The band translucently shifts paradigms while bringing a signature mode of attack to ...
Benjamin Boone: Joy
by Chris M. Slawecki
Benjamin Boone's set with this band born and grown in Ghana is a genuine cross-cultural jazz Joy. The seeds of Joy were planted when composer-saxophonist Boone spent a year as a US Fulbright Scholar in Ghana in sabbatical from his professorship at California State University (Fresno), to study the country's music and musical traditions. ...
Giovanni Falzone Open Quartet: L'albero delle fate
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
"L'albero delle fate racconta di un luogo speciale. Da alcuni anni amo molto trascorrere il mio poco tempo libero sul delizioso Lago di Endine dove cammino, osservo, penso, immagino... e dove riesco a percepire la vita nella sua essenzialità e bellezza più alta, laddove è a contatto con la natura. Per questo mio nuovo lavoro discografico, ...
