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Mountweazel: Doublethink
by Neri Pollastri
Ha qualcosa di ornettiano questo album di Mountweazel, quartetto composto dagli italiani Federico Eterno e Davide Lorenzon, rispettivamente ai sax contralto e tenore, dal finlandese Antti Virtaranta al contrabbasso e dal polacco Adrian David Krok alla batteria, accomunati dal lavorare tutti perlopiù a Berlino. E ce l'ha non solo per il titolo del brano d'avvio, che ...
Paolo Fresu, Daniele Di Bonaventura: Altissima Luce - Laudario di Cortona
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo varie esecuzioni dal vivo--la prima nel 2016 nella Basilica di S. Pietro a Perugia--il progetto di Paolo Fresu e Daniele Di Bonaventura sul Laudario di Cortona esce con la registrazione in studio effettuata sul finire del 2017. La confezione è ancor più raffinata rispetto a quanto normalmente fa la Tǔk Records e la cura dei ...
Bill Frisell: Harmony
by Franz A. Matzner
Renowned guitarist Bill Frisell's Blue Note Records debut Harmony is a pleasant album. This does not imply lack of innovation, the saccharine sound or the absence of bite and sorrow. These hues of bite and sorrow actually dominate the fourteen selections, which in patented Frisell manner run the gamut from traditional Americana to Elvis Costello to ...
Joel Miller: Unstoppable
by Dan McClenaghan
Joel Miller makes an excellent case for continuing education. Twenty years after winning the career-boosting Gran Prix of the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1997, and releasing his debut album, Find A Way (Isthmus/Page Music) in the same year, the Montreal-based saxophonist returned to his alma mater, McGill University, to complete his studies for a Master's in ...
Walter Fischbacher: Moments
by C. Michael Bailey
Austrian-American pianist Walter Fischbacher has been a steady New York City presence for over 20 years. He is one half of a NYC music power duo, the other half being vocalist (and his wife) Elisabeth Lohninger. Together, the pair make records and ran Lofish Studios, which transitioned to Lofish Music in 2015. He is involved in ...
Vosbein Magee Big Band: Come and Get It!
by Jack Bowers
One conclusive way to appraise an album—big-band or otherwise—is by the emotional response it arouses in the listener. Come and Get it!, the debut recording by the Virginia-based Vosbein Magee Big Band, gives rise to warmth and happiness for a number of reasons, not least of which are an unbroken series of bright and impressive themes, ...
Michael Eaton: Dialogical
by Jerome Wilson
Saxophonist Michael Eaton covers a lot of ground on this CD, using several different configurations of musicians in a program that encompasses angular, funk-laced fusion, airy sax and flute duets, a multi-saxophone workout and minimalism in the Philip Glass style. A key sideman here is guitarist Lionel Loueke whose unique style of playing and ...
Bill Frisell: Harmony
by Mark Sullivan
Iconic guitarist-composer Bill Frisell has chosen to primarily emphasize the Americana side of his music for his debut as a leader for Blue Note Records. When Frisell organized his new band with vocalist Petra Haden, cellist Hank Roberts and guitarist-bassist Luke Bergman he was struck by the fact that all of the band members but him ...
Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons
by Troy Dostert
To call pianist Kris Davis stylistically omnivorous would seem to be an understatement. While she started her career solidly in the avant-garde circles that brought her into projects with stalwarts of the genre like Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Tom Rainey and Tony Malaby, that hasn't stopped her from forging connections with other musicians not typically included ...
Hiromi: Spectrum
by Jim Worsley
In an interview in 2019, legendary double bassist Ron Carter discussed his solo record All Alone (EmArcy, 1988). He stated that, “I wanted each track to have its own story. It wouldn't sound like the last tune or the next tune." If Hiromi had this mindset going into Spectrum, then in baseball terminology, she hit a ...
