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Xavier Lecouturier: Carrier
by Paul Rauch
21 year old drummer and composer Xavier Lecouturier seems like he's been around for a while. There is a maturity about his playing one witnesses on the bandstand, a lack of fear of moving and directing flow, of steering time in waves of variance. The fact of the matter is, he hasn't been here long at ...
Tori Freestone Trio: El Mar De Nubes
by Roger Farbey
The third album by Tori Freestone's trio, following her debut In The Chop House (Whirlwind Recordings, 2014) and follow-up El Barranco (Whirlwind Recordings, 2016) is no less intriguing than its two predecessors. As with El Barranco, she takes her inspiration for El Mar De Nubes from her visits to the Canary Islands and, specifically, from Tenerife's ...
Andrew Cyrille/Dave Douglas/Uri Caine: Devotion
by Mark Corroto
The aptly titled Devotion by trumpeter Dave Douglas, pianist Uri Caine and drummer Andrew Cyrille is both a prayer and a dedication. Like a prayer, the trio resolves to maintain a virtuous approach to their celebration of personal heroes, both musical and cultural. The disc opens with “Curly," dedicated to the iconic guileless Stooge, who along ...
Luz: Encelado
by Claudio Bonomi
Dopo cinque anni dall'esordio discografico, arriva il secondo album in studio per i Luz, brillante trio composto da Giacomo Ancillotto (chitarra elettrica), Igor Legari (contrabbasso) e Federico Scettri (batteria) che vanta ormai una solida esperienza live (la formazione è in attività dal 2011). Si tratta di nove composizioni originali, tutte firmate collettivamente dai tre musicisti e ...
Mikkel Ploug: Faroe
by Neri Pollastri
Il rapporto artistico tra il tenorsassofonista statunitense Mark Turner e il chitarrista danese Mikkel Ploug è piuttosto lungo e consolidato, avendo i due suonato per circa dieci anni nel quartetto messo in piedi da Ploug dopo il suo arrivo in America nel 2005. E proprio l'intesa prodottasi tra i due è stata lo stimolo che ha ...
Keith Jarrett: J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I
by Karl Ackermann
Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the clavier was--at that time--a broad description taking in the harpsichord, clavichord, and organ. The Well-Tempered Clavier--Book I is a live version of ...
Joshua Espinoza Trio: Journey Into Night
by Dan McClenaghan
“Let's all get up, And dance to a tune That was a hit Before your mother was born." So said Paul McCartney, way back in another century, on the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol, 1968). On his debut release, pianist Joshua Espinoza gets into that McCartney-esque frame of mind ...
Aneta George & Martin Milcent Trio: Playground
by Ljubinko Zivkovic
Vocalists who are relatively new to jazz tend to play it safe and often stick to a tried-and-true set of standards, as close as possible to the interpretations of those standards they are familiar with. You really have to be brave and sure of your compositional and vocal capabilities to come up with a full set ...
Slauson Malone: A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018
by John Bricker
Like the black hole its cover image evokes, Slauson Malone's debut solo album, A Quiet Farwell, 2016—2018 is a beautiful mystery, using disorienting samples and despondent beats to confuse and captivate. Jasper Marsalis—son of jazz legend Wynton Marsalis—rejected formal musical training, instead establishing himself under his pseudonym as a forward-thinking hip-hop producer through his work with ...
Abdullah Ibrahim: The Balance
by Chris May
Abdullah Ibrahim's discography goes back sixty years, and although there are longer periods between his releases than there used to be, Ibrahim has retained all his grit and jubilance. The pianist and composer continues to make gloriously uplifting music steeped in its South African roots, in a style which still carries echoes of his formative overseas ...
