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Lucas Pino's No Net Nonet: That's a Computer
by Jerome Wilson
Lucas Pino is a New York-based tenor saxophonist who leads the No Net Nonet, a band that fits snugly into the jazz tradition but displays its own style of creativity. Despite what this CD's title suggests, this group's music is full of emotion and warmth. That is evident from the outset with “Antiquity," written ...
Patrick Ames: All I Do Is Bleed
by Paul Naser
Lyric writing is an oft under-appreciated element in contemporary music. Guitarist/songwriter Patrick Ames puts lyrics front and center in his rootsy tunes. Somewhere between Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground and Robert Johnson (without the slide), Ames' stripped down recordings are direct a transmission of his feelings, aided by gritty, loose arrangements that give the feel of ...
Hearing Things: Here's Hearing Things
by Luca Muchetti
Direttamente da Brooklyn, una delle formazioni che gli amanti delle atmosfere liquide e colorate della musica surf e beat non potranno farsi scappare. Si chiamano Hearing Things e, dietro le deliziose grafiche di copertina in puro stile Sixties del loro album intitolato Here's Hearing Things, si nascondono Matt Bauder al sassofono e chitarra, JP Schlegelmilch all'organo ...
Elio Villafranca: Cinque
by Maurizio Zerbo
Questo doppio CD è dedicato alla memoria di Joseph Cinque, che nel 1839 capeggiò la rivolta degli schiavi africani imbarcati sulla nave Amistad con destinazione Cuba e le sue piantagioni di zucchero. È un progetto ambizioso sulla diaspora africana in cui la narrazione vocale delle vicende storiche ben si combina ad un sontuoso apparato musicale, articolato ...
Judy Wexler: Crowded Heart
by Nicholas F. Mondello
"Tribute," “re-imagined," “remembered," “Great American Songbook." You won't see or hear those words anywhere on Crowded Heart, Judy Wexler's fifth and best effort to date. What you will hear are 10 sublime cuts from some of the finest composers and lyricists in the game. Here Wexler revels in songs where romance and all of its kaleidoscopic ...
Raphael Malfliet Large Ensemble: LE10 18-05
by Karl Ackermann
On his debut album, Noumenon (Ruweh Records, 2016), Belgian-born bassist Raphael Malfliet incorporated his influences of modern classical, avant-garde, and improvised music, without deference to any particular genre. In that trio setting, Malfliet mixed textures and loose, fluctuating melodies that played as a surprisingly full sound and served to emphasize the opposing uses of silence. The ...
Denny Zeitlin: Remembering Miles
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Denny Zeitlin, pushing hard ahead in an extraordinary recording career that began in 1963 with a sideman job on Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever (Columbia Records), has settled artistically, fifty years on, into a pair welcoming homes: Sunnyside Records, for whom he has recorded ten superb albums, beginning with 2009's In Concert Featuring Buster Williams and ...
Merry Peers: Merry Peers
by Bruce Lindsay
The collective name under which Brad Henkel and Yoshiko Klein operate suggests that the duo's debut release is a record filled with jolly songs about inconsequential things (or that it's a tribute to the Grand Slam winning French tennis professional, Mary Pierce). Whether such intentions are deliberate or not, it takes only a few seconds of ...
Dayramir Gonzalez: The Grand Concourse
by Angelo Leonardi
Siamo abituati al debutto di prodigiosi pianisti cubani ma Dayramir González non è solo questo. Come Fabian Almazan appartiene alla nuova generazione di strumentisti maturata negli Stati Uniti, capace di sofisticate sintesi orchestrali, coniugando le radici popolari ed etniche della terra d'origine, le forme del jazz ed evidenti riferimenti classici. Nato e cresciuto all'Avana ...
Elsa Martin, Stefano Battaglia: Sfueâi
by Neri Pollastri
Visti -e apprezzati moltissimo -in concerto lo scorso anno (clicca qui per leggere la recensione della data fiorentina), Elsa Martin e Stefano Battaglia presentano anche su disco il loro splendido progetto sui poeti friulani Sfueâi (Stormi di luci), edito -giustamente, viene da dire -dall'etichetta friulana Artesuono, da sempre dedita a documentare della regione la musica e ...
