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Chris Trinidad: Chris Trinidad's Chant Triptych II
by Chris M. Slawecki
Chris Trinidad seems unique even by musicians' standards: He keeps busy as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, choral conductor, and music educator in and around the San Francisco Bay area, but also has a background in liturgy, liturgical worship and educational leadership. Chant Triptych II is the second in a series through which he reimagines traditional ...
Miguel Zenon: Yo soy la tradicion
by Maurizio Zerbo
I più creativi jazzisti di estrazione latino-americana sono da qualche anno impegnati nel ripensamento delle proprie radici musicali, facendole interagire con altri mondi espressivi. Oltre naturalmente al jazz, le risorse timbriche della musica eurocolta sono qui il trait d'union di un progetto ambizioso, rivolto a sottolineare l'evangelizzazione cristiana degli spagnoli in terra caraibica. Estendendo ...
Caroline Davis: Heart Tonic
by Vincenzo Roggero
Dopo l'ottimo omaggio alla città natale--Doors: Chicago Storylines disco registrato con un quartetto di musicisti della Windy City--Caroline Davis da alle stampe un album impregnato, questa volta, degli umori e dei colori di New York. Città nella quale si è trasferita nel 2013 e della quale Heart Tonic coglie il mood più solare e rilassato. Per ...
Christian Artmann: Our Story
by Troy Dostert
There are a number of different stories woven into Our Story, flautist Christian Artmann's first offering since 2015. Quotations in the liner notes from Zen sages Thich Nhat Hanh and Yasutani Roshi point to Artmann's Buddhist faith, but the fifth cut of the record, “Amazing Grace," makes a bit of room for the Christian narrative as ...
Empathy Project: Influences
by Don Phipps
Influences, a breezy affair from Empathy Project, is like viewing fluffy white clouds while seated at a street side café on the South Bank of Paris or the beach in Rio. The music swirls and bounces gently in boppish fashion -a happy affair with an emphasis on romance. Featuring soft but assured vocals from ...
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
by Mark Corroto
The Transitory Poems might be the first improvised solo piano recording accomplished by a pair of pianists. Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn are 21st century masters and descendants from the likes of Cecil Taylor, Keith Jarrett, Andrew Hill, Anthony Davis, and Paul Bley. This live duo recording, from 2018 in Budapest, is an act of improvisatory ...
Brent Birckhead: Birckhead
by Mike Jurkovic
As an alumnus of Lauryn Hill, Nas, George Duke, and Larry Graham as well as a Downbeat Award winner for outstanding instrumentalist, alto saxophonist Brent Birckhead has certainly absorbed his influences well. So it's anyone's conjecture why he would possibly want to undermine his musical intentions by intro-ing his eponymous release with a brief but utterly ...
Sonar: Live At Moods
by Chris M. Slawecki
Recorded Live at Moods jazz club in Zürich (Switzerland) in May 2018, this set reconnects guitar electronics visionary David Torn with the band Sonar. Torn played with Sonar on their previous album Vortex, and this live set picks up three tunes ("Waves and Particles," “Red Shift" and “Lookface!") from that earlier collaboration. How does ...
Harriet Tubman: The Terror End of Beauty
by Vic Albani
Continuando l'audace cammino che solo chi conosce a perfezione tutti i meandri della musica moderna in generale può affrontare, Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs e JT Lewis, proseguono la strada di unire jazz, rock, blues e improvvisazione in modo esemplare. The Terror End of Beauty segue di non molto lo straordinario Araminta uscito nel ...
Tom Rainey Trio: Combobulated
by Stefano Merighi
Tom Rainey è da anni batterista tra i più versatili. A suo agio nella lingua della tradizione (Fred Hersch, Joe Lovano, Carmen McRae, il suo gruppo Obbligato..) ma anche nelle forme aperte della postmodernità (Tim Berne, David Torn, Nels Cline...), raggiunge con il suo trio risultati anomali, di volta in volta più sorprendenti. Sempre affiancato da ...
