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Antonio Sanchez & Migration: Lines in the Sand
by Claudio Bonomi
Antonio Sanchez, compositore e batterista di fama internazionale, confeziona una suite che non è solo un tributo e un atto di solidarietà nei confronti dei migranti che quotidianamente tentano di varcare il confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti in cerca di una vita migliore, ma anche un atto d'accusa contro le politiche demagogiche e piene di ...
Nicoló Ricci: Pulcino
by Geno Thackara
It takes a confident saxophonist to step out in the classic trio format--no chordal instrument or frontline partner to share the load, just a strong trust in one's own skill and the backing of his bandmates. There's no one to hide behind, and everything is out in the figurative spotlight even when all three are sharing ...
Euphorium_freakestra: Grande Casino
by Glenn Astarita
Indeed, the earth can be a delightfully bizarre habitat. With this ten-piece aggregation assembled by pianist, musicologist Oliver Schwerdt and featuring legendary improvisers Barry Guy (bass) and Gunter 'Baby' Sommer (drums, perc), ideas, and perhaps life itself penetrate through unchartered peripheries of time and reason. This European ensemble toys with your psyche due to ...
Steve Kuhn: To and From the Heart
by Maurizio Zerbo
Insieme a due standard jazz e pop, cinque composizioni originali costituiscono il repertorio proposto da uno dei più autorevoli e versatili esponenti del pianismo jazz contemporaneo. Il trio di Steve Kuhn si impone con questo CD degno di rilievo per il rigore e l'enciclopedismo stilistico dei musicisti, che abbinano magistero tecnica e cuore palpitante.
Rai Castells Quintet: Welcome
by Mark Sullivan
Spanish guitarist/composer Rai Castells graduated from the Berklee College of Music. He has had other projects, but this is the debut recording of his new quintet with saxophonist Miguel Pintxo Villar, pianist Max Villavecchia, bassist Jordi Gaspar and drummer Jordi Gardeñas. The material is all composed by Castells. “Around The Planet" begins the set ...
Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble (featuring Clarence Penn): Forward
by Troy Dostert
There's something to be said for acknowledging one's artistic debts. It's a trait especially prominent in jazz, where musicians paying tribute to their forebears is commonplace, a way to sustain the tradition and recognize its continual evolution. Trumpeter and composer Paul Dietrich has certainly done that with the debut recording from his large ensemble, Forward. Although ...
Herlin Riley: Perpetual Optimism
by Chris Mosey
Herlin Riley, a drummer from New Orleans, is a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis. Indeed, he played a large part in developing the drum parts for the Pulitzer Prize-winning album by Marsalis, Blood on the Fields (Columbia, 1997). On his own album, Riley leads a mainstream quintet ...
Hvalfugl: Som En Faldskærm
by Anthony Shaw
Hvalfugl is a young Danish trio whose music straddles the awkward boundary between jazz and a rather ill-defined style of instrumental music which might be considered folk. This is despite prominently featuring two instruments which barely feature in the genre--electric guitar and piano. If one is to define a style, it surely shouldn't be ...
Andrés Vial: Sphereology Volume One
by Chris M. Slawecki
Pianist Andres Vial has been working on this Sphereology project since 2005, when he organized a Thelonious Monk music festival in his Montreal hometown. “My band played four nights of Monk's music there," he recalls. “I transcribed about fifty of his tunes for those gigs, and the festival ran for four years." “Even though ...
Franco Ambrosetti: The Nearness Of You
by Angelo Leonardi
Il pregio di quest'album risiede nella ricercatezza dei suoi percorsi melodici, esaltati dal lirico flicorno di Franco Ambrosetti e dalle raffinate orchestrazioni di Massimo Nunzi e Gianni Ferrio. Il riferimento implicito è l'opera di Miles Davis con Gil Evans ma la cosa non sminuisce il fascino del lavoro che avvolge l'ascoltatore con la fragranza dei timbri ...
