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Larry Ochs / Nels Cline / Gerald Cleaver: What Is To Be Done
by Mark Corroto
Sandwiched between two epic novels of improvisation--each a track of over twenty minutes of sound--is the respite piece “A Pause, A Rose" by the trio of saxophonist Larry Ochs, guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Cline, who some may know from his work with the alternative rock band Wilco, opens with a few simple notes ...
Rogerio Boccato: No Old Rain
by Maurizio Zerbo
Per il suo album d'esordio, il batterista brasiliano Rogerio Boccato rende omaggio alla sua tradizione musicale reinterpretando alcune delle più celebri canzoni brasiliane del Novecento. I classici standard di Milton Nascimento, Toninho Horta, Egberto Gismonti, Edu Lobo sono stati qui fantasiosamente rivisitati, trasponendone creativamente gli accenti in tempi jazzistici. Questo felice percorso discografico è ...
Polly Gibbons: All I Can Do
by Angelo Leonardi
È sufficiente ascoltare qualche brano dell'inglese Polly Gibbons per lasciarsi prendere dal suo esuberante feeling. Niente a che vedere con le molte vocalist che hanno invaso la scena con una mediocre e plastificata sintesi di pop, jazz e soul. La giovane scoperta dal produttore Ian Shaw è qualcosa di speciale. Il suo timbro è profondo, la ...
Walt Weiskopf European Quartet: Worldwide
by Jakob Baekgaard
These days a lot of jazz records seem to require a musical concept or an idea that unites the compositions on the album, but it doesn't have to be so complicated. After a tour in January 2019 with his European Quartet, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf went into a studio in Copenhagen with the band, and a ...
Norma Winstone & John Taylor: In Concert
by Roger Farbey
When John Taylor died on 17 July 2015, aged 72, the jazz world lost one its finest pianists. Over the course of his career he recorded with the likes of Arild Andersen, John Dankworth, Peter Erskine, Gil Evans. Jan Garbarek, Mike Gibbs, Charlie Haden, Lee Konitz, Enrico Rava, John Surman, Steve Swallow, Miroslav Vitous and Kenny ...
Akira Tana & Otonowa: Ai San San: Love's Radiance
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Ai San San: Love's Radiance is musical transformation of the highest caliber. It employs traditional and contemporary Japanese melodies and molds them into a marvelously arranged and performed jazz album. Traditional Japanese instruments enhance textural dimension. The opener, “Antagata Dakosa," is vaguely reminiscent of Mongo Santamaria's “Afro Blue" and is a terrific straight-ahead ...
Maureen Choi Quartet: Theia
by Friedrich Kunzmann
On the third outing with her quartet, American violinist and composer Maureen Choi perfects the style she has been developing over the past albums with much love for detail and an awareness of the catchy and the danceable. In a mix of originals and interpretations of Spanish and Latin American classics, Choi's quartet presents over an ...
Iana: D’une extrême à l’autre
by Alberto Bazzurro
Quattro brevi brani in studio (entro i tre minuti e mezzo) e poi invece un'unica cavalcata live al festival di Donaueschingen di quasi tre quarti d'ora, il tutto partorito fra il 18 e il 21 ottobre 2017, compongono questo album delle pianiste riunite nel duo Iana, l'una, Christine Wodrascka, slavo-provenzale poco più che sessantenne, già nota ...
Ceramic Dog: YRU Still Here?
by Luca Muchetti
Marc Ribot è tornato coi suoi Ceramic Dog e con un album YRU Still Here? che si inserisce nel solco della piega politica e di protesta che da tempo lo contraddistingue. I suoi compagni di viaggio per questa terza uscita marcata Ceramic Dog (a 10 anni compiuti dall'avvio del progetto) sono Shahzad Ismaily e Ches Smith ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Savage Beauty
by Dan McClenaghan
The cover art of pianist Jo-Yu Chen's fourth album, Savage Beauty, is provocative and beautiful. So is the music. There is a sense of a “stepping up of the game," in terms of public persona and artistry. Chen has always taken the physical product—the hard copy of her CDs—seriously, beginning with her debut, Obsession (Sony Music ...
