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Bob Holz: Silverthorne
by Glenn Astarita
Here's a solid jazz fusion album sans the megalomaniacal soloing sprees and impossibly complex time signatures brought to us by highly regarded session drummer and bandleader Bob Holz, who reaps the benefits of A-listers such as guitarist Mike Stern, trumpeter Randy Brecker and other notables. And while drummers are not frequently heralded for their compositions and ...
Jeff Cosgrove, Scott Robinson, Ken Filiano: Hunters & Scavengers
by Alberto Bazzurro
Nove brani a firma collettiva e la pagina più celebrata di Ornette Coleman compongono questo bell'album di un trio assolutamente paritario (anche se il merito di averlo riunito si deve al batterista Jeff Cosgrove) che propone un jazz in possesso dei sapori più veraci dell'avanguardia storica (peraltro senza particolari salti nel vuoto). In più di un ...
Dominic Miller: Absinthe
by Mark Sullivan
Guitarist Dominic Miller''s 2017 ECM debut Silent Light was a low key affair that focused on his solo classical guitar (plus a bit of light percussion). The sequel features a full quintet with a rhythm section. A bigger sound, but with a similar impressionistic flavor. Miller's liner notes make that visual art reference explicit: as a ...
Liebman, Rudolph & Drake: Chi
by John Ephland
Chi is another trio outing with saxophonist Dave Liebman and percussionist Adam Rudolph, the third leg on this stool being drummer Hamid Drake. It is a kind of follow-up to 2018's alternately serene and propulsive The Unknowable (RareNoise), on which Liebman and Rudolph were joined by percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani. Unlike The Unknowable, Chi was recorded in ...
David Hazeltine: The Time Is Now
by David A. Orthmann
David Hazeltine's thirty-fourth date as a leader juxtaposes his strengths as a composer, interpreter of standard material, improviser, as well as the capacity to converse and interact with his peers. There's something magical about the ways in which the pianist employs these skills, avoiding emphasizing one at the expense of the others, and in doing so ...
Amina Figarova: Road To The Sun
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Amina Figarova, born in Baku, Azerbaijin, experienced one of the United States' darkest days--the 9/11/2001 terrorist attack--up close, from the vantage point of a friend's apartment in Brooklyn. The experience resulted in the creation of perhaps the most poignant and heartfelt artistic representations of the event, Figarova's sextet recording September Suite (Munich Records, 2005), an ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs
by John Sharpe
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's prolonged late career flowering shows no sign of abating with the creation of yet another epic work, following on the heels of his monumental Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform, 2012), Great Lakes Suite (TUM, 2014) and America's National Parks (Cuneiform, 2016). For his inspiration he takes the story of Rosa Parks, one of ...
Rachelle Garniez: Swimming Pool Blue
by Luca Muchetti
Tutto vero, non ci nascondiamo dietro un dito: per molti ascoltare la Rachelle Garniez di questo sobrissimo e super-elegante Swimming Pool Blue, potrà sembrare una operazione di pura nostalgia per i bei tempi andati del jazz cantato al femminile, un album nato dalla e per la voglia di regalarsi ancora una volta una seduta discreta e ...
The Comet Is Coming: Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
by Vincenzo Roggero
The Comet Is Coming è una delle tre formazioni (Sons of Kemet e Shabaka and the Ancestor, le altre due) attraverso le quali Shabaka Hutchings (punta di diamante e guru della effervescente scena londinese) da forma alla sua proteiforme visione musicale. Il progetto prende forma durante un'esibizione del duo Danalogue (batteria) e Betamax (sintetizzatori) ossia Soccer96, ...
Chat Noir: Hyperuranion
by Dan McClenaghan
Coming up with a title for a recording is an art form, and creative oddities pop up regularly. In 1963 bassist Charles Mingus presented Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse! Records); 2014 saw the release of saxophonist Branford Marsalis' Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music). And now the group Chat Noir moves in a more ...
