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Trio S: Somewhere Glimmer
by Stefano Merighi
Un piccolo ma delizioso disco, questo, del Trio S ovvero Doug Wieselman, Jane Scarpantoni e Kenny Wollesen, sodalizio di downtown New York che ogni tanto si incontra per produrre musiche di serena dolcezza, a metà strada tra un folk dei ricordi e una quieta improvvisazione. Il trio ha messo a punto in particolare una ...
Philipp Zoubek: Outside
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso a Colonia nel dicembre 2017, questo album vede il quarantenne pianista austriaco Philip Zoubek, collaboratore fra gli altri di Paul Lytton, Frank Gratkowski, Ernst Glerum ed Herb Robertson, misurarsi con la prediletta formula del trio, nello specifico affiancato dal bassista tedesco David Helm e dal batterista elvetico Dominik Mahnig. Come principali punti di ...
The Ballpeen Monks: Incident in Oniontown
by Karl Ackermann
Incident in Oniontown finds The Ballpeen Monks re-emerging as the most musically wide-ranging collective of their generation. Despite the quintet undergoing massive changes--only one member remains from the original quintet--the group displays a consistency that has been their hallmark since their debut album A Meeting in Daisyfuentesville (Self-produced, 1994). The infighting that resulted from that moderately ...
The London Ontological Orchestra: Hello Cleveland!: The London Ontological Orchestra Plays the Music of Spinal Tap
by Geno Thackara
The band may have been fictional, but the music is all real—and turns out to have an impressive staying power, even today. If you associate the name Spinal Tap with cheesy 1980s rock and roll, it's time to think again. The members of the London Ontological Orchestra are stars well-known in the jazz world, though working ...
Mickey Katz: Live at Katz's Deli
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The recent discovery of “lost tapes" by legendary figures such as John Coltrane and Pee Wee Marquette has led to record companies scouring their vaults for unreleased recordings. One such is the discovery and release of Live at Katz's Deli on Gonif Records. The find is resonating on both 52nd and 47th Streets and in the ...
Kenny G: Playin' It Straight
by Ken Dryden
Kenny G has been categorized as a jazz musician by record companies simply because he plays saxophone. The reality is that his style is actually banal pop consisting of repetitious melodies with short passages of bland improvisation and, occasionally, long-held notes to show off his grasp of circular breathing—a technique Clark Terry and Rahsaan Roland Kirk ...
Mike Westbrook: Starcross Bridge
by Vic Albani
Sia ringraziato il cielo per avere tra noi un musicista come l'inglese Mike Westbrook e un intelligente discografico come lo svizzero Werner Uehlinger. Il primo per avere rifondato e fatto germogliare tutto il new jazz britannico, il secondo per avere dato la possibilità a decine e decine di musicisti di esprimersi come forse non avrebbero potuto ...
Big Heart Machine: Big Heart Machine
by Angelo Leonardi
L'universo dell'orchestrazione jazz non cessa di regalare sorprese. Mentre è imminente l'uscita del secondo album di Brian Krock intitolato Liddle--occupiamoci del debutto della sua Big Hearth Machine. Che sia qualcosa di straordinario lo s'intuisce vedendo Darcy James Argue nel ruolo di produttore e Miho Hazama occuparsi della concreta direzione orchestrale. Brian Krock, che ha scritto tutte ...
Greg Reitan: West 60th
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Greg Reitan is based in Los Angeles, a good place to take advantage of the work he has found in film and television. He has also served up four previous top-shelf jazz trio recordings, beginning with his terrific debut, Some Other Time (2009), followed up by Antibes (2010), Daybreak (2011) and Post No Bills, all ...
Atlantico: New Easter Island
by Mark Sullivan
Atlantico is co-lead by French jazz pianist Sebastien Paindestre and U.S. reed and woodwind player Dave Schroeder. They made their recorded debut with En Rouge (La Fabrica'son, 2016). On this sequel--the second in a planned triptych--they are again joined by acoustic bassist Martin Wind and drummer Billy Drummond, along with two guests. Schroeder's “The ...
