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Ill Considered: 6
by Karl Ackermann
The London-based quartet, Ill Considered, has churned out nine full-length albums in less than two years, each high quality and each a unique jazz creation. Founded in 2017, saxophonist Idris Rahman, drummer Emre Ramazanoglu and bassist Leon Brichard replaced their additional percussionist with Satin Singh on their second release, Live at the Crypt (Self Produced, 2017). ...
Steve Haines: And the Third Floor Orchestra
by Jerome Wilson
In the Fifties and Sixties it was very common to have jazz recordings that would feature a vocal or instrumental soloist like Ella Fitzgerald or Stan Getz in front of a full orchestra. That still happens today but nowhere as frequently as it once did. Bassist and composer Steve Haines revives that tradition with an amazing ...
Rob Ryndak & Tom Lockwood: Gratitude
by Nicholas F. Mondello
There's poignancy about the titles of the selections on this fine album that generates reflection. Perhaps that was the intention of the two composers, Rob Ryndak and Tom Lockwood. However, the music of Gratitude—all original, highly textural—solidifies this supposition. Incorporating a crew of fine Chicago-area musicians along with guest trumpeter Brian Lynch, Ryndak ...
Alexa Tarantino: Winds of Change
by Mike Jurkovic
Coming at her music with an impressive embrace of style and tradition, and blending a natural youthful inquisitiveness and confidence to make the music her own, saxophonist-flautist and full-of-flair composer Alexa Tarantino--along with pianist Christian Sands, bassist Joe Martin, drummer Rudy Royston and trombonist Nick Finzer--makes big strides towards the limelight on her Posi-Tone Records debut ...
A Filetta, Paolo Fresu, Daniele Di Bonaventura: Danse Mémorie, Danse
by Neri Pollastri
Secondo capitolo discografico per l'interessante incontro tra il gruppo vocale sardo A Filetta e il duo jazzistico di Paolo Fresu e Daniele Di Bonaventura, dopo Mistico Mediterraneo, uscito nel 2011 per ECM e salutato come un originale esempio di coniugazione tra culture diverse. L'ascolto di questo nuovo lavoro, tuttavia, desta impressioni contrastanti. Iniziando da ...
Phil Durrant & Martin Vishnick: Rifinitori di momenti
by John Eyles
The fact that this duo exists is a testament to the network of improvised music workshops and venues that thrive in London, with interested musicians often hearing about them by word of mouth. One such workshop is Skronk, which is run every fortnight or so by New Zealand expat and saxophonist Rick Jensen, who welcomes all ...
Veronica Swift: Confessions
by Chris Mosey
Times change. In the Me Too era it is clearly politically incorrect for a female singer to sidle up to the microphone and huskily breathe “My Heart Belongs To Daddy" like Julie London used to do. Or even, for that matter, to lustily proclaim “Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" like Marilyn Monroe. But a residue ...
Chris Greene: PlaySCAPE
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophonist Chris Greene's twelfth recording is a solid hard bop affair, an appointed EP, that begins intensely and never gives up. The angular, “Blues for Dr. Fear" kicks things off, funky and sharp-edged. Greene plays as much Michael Brecker as Hank Mobley squeezing every bit of grease from this extralean music. “Thunder Snow" is mid-1960s Joe ...
Massimo Colombo, Maurizio Quintavalle, Enzo Zirilli: Acoustic Weather (The Music of Weather Report)
by Claudio Bonomi
Dopo l'ottima prova dell'anno scorso in cui il trio aveva omaggiato Bud Powell in Powell to the People, Massimo Colombo e soci riscendono in campo, puntando questa volta al repertorio dei Weather Report. In tutto otto brani tratti da quattro importanti album della band americana pubblicati tra il 1976 ed il 1985: Black Market ...
Lyn Stanley: London With a Twist - Live at Bernie’s
by C. Michael Bailey
Lyn Stanley hits her stride. The Great American Songbook possesses a persistent resonance in our culture. It may be best defined as the Songbook as the popular music of the 1920s through the 1950s: Tin Pan Alley, showtunes and other popular music of the period. This block of songwriting remains a bedrock of jazz. ...
