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Christy Bennett's Fumee Gypsy Project: Lost Lyrics
by Jerome Wilson
Django Reinhardt's Gypsy-flavored jazz compositions have been played all over the world for decades. A few modern musicians have added words to his melodies but few know that some of Reinhardt's works were originally written with lyrics. Vocalist Christy Bennett has spent years tracking those lyrics down. This CD presents the results of her research, Reinhardt's ...
Ehud Asherie Trio: Wild Man Blues
by Dan McClenaghan
Ehud Asherie must have an old soul. The pianist's 2016 release, Shuffle Along (Blue Heron Records), explored the music from the 1921 Eubie Blake/Noble Sissle Broadway musical, Wild Man Blues. The disc at hand opens with the title tune, penned by Louis Armstrong and recorded with his Hot Seven in 1927. A relaxed and gorgeous take ...
Patrice Jégou: If It Ain't Love
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Listening to Canadian vocal artist Patrice Jégou's second album, If It Ain't Love, one would never think that she once was a world-class professional figure skater. One would also immediately discern that she and her similarly world-class musical partners have delivered a perfect-10 performance. Surrounded on the opener by Take 6's Mark Kibble ...
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
by Dan McClenaghan
The seed that started The Transitory Poems, the two piano set from Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, was planted in 2002, when the two pianists played in saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's band, Note Factory, contributing to Song for My Sister (Pi Recordings, 2002). At that time Taborn and Iyer fell into the “exciting young lions" category, and ...
Mats Eilertsen Trio: And Then Comes The Night
by Mark Sullivan
Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen has a large discography as a performer, but his compositional talents are equally striking. His previous ECM release as a leader, 2016's Rubicon, was a composer's showcase featuring a septet. But he has also worked in much smaller configurations, for example Meander (Ora Fonogram, 2017) his recent duet recording with guitarist Jo ...
Mark Feldman's Level 5: The Sybil EP
by Doug Collette
Jazz-rock fusion may have peaked in popularity back in the 1970s, but it has remained an integral sub-set of jazz ever since. That said, those traits that undermined its force back then--fake funk and over-emphasis on technique--have remained so pervasive within the hybrid that truly distinctive entries in the genre are few and far between. The ...
Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock: Combobulated
by Don Phipps
Recorded live in 2017 in New Haven, Connecticut at restaurant, watering hole, and music space Firehouse 12, Tom Rainey's Combobulated attests to the genius of three of the leading innovative music makers on the scene today. Rainey's collaborative music with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and guitarist Mary Halvorson offer up sound explosions and introspections that unzip and ...
Ellen Rowe: Momentum: Portraits of Women in Motion
by Chris Mosey
An all-women jazz band playing songs about women--this is a CD whose time has surely come. Pianist Ellen Rowe has duly put together a collection of original songs lauding her gender. She says: “Each piece on this album is a tribute to women heroes of mine in disciplines ranging from music to social ...
Claudio Fasoli Samadhi Quintet: Haiku Time
by Neri Pollastri
"Portare emozioni molto intense e pregnanti nel minore spazio sonoro possibile": questo, scrive nel libretto Claudio Fasoli, l'intento che muove il disco registrato assieme al suo Samadhi Quintet, Haiku Time, e analogo a quello che muove l'arte poetica giapponese degli haiku, poemi di sole ventisette sillabe. Qui la brevità è soprattutto nei temi e nei titoli, ...
Ted Nash: Live at Dizzy’s
by Maurizio Zerbo
Primo album live di Ted Nash in venticinque anni di carriera, Live at Dizzy's ne fa rilucere le superbe doti di improvvisatore e multistrumentista. Già vincitore di un Grammy Awards per la direzione orchestrale del CD Portrait in Seven Shades (2011), il cinquantottenne musicista di Los Angeles si impone altresì per una cifra compositiva sapiente e ...
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