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Daniel Carter: Seraphic Light [Live At Tufts University]
by Giuseppe Segala
Questa registrazione scaturisce da un incontro organizzato nel 2017 dalla Tufts University di Medford, Massachusetts, a pochi chilometri da Boston. Sotto il titolo Art, Race and Politics in America" si presentava il concerto con Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker e una discussione sul ruolo degli artisti neri innovativi in America, oggi. Cosa si possa intendere ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: War Orphans
by Dan McClenaghan
Manfred Eicher started ECM Records in 1969. Fifty years later, in 2019, with over 1500 releases to its name, the label continues to offer up compelling and unclassifiable music. And since the catalog is deep, and early-in-the-effort recordings have become harder to find, ECM periodically re-releases some of these gems, tagging them Touchstones. Early ...
TRIFID: Dreamscape
by Peter J. Hoetjes
A muse may come in the form of faith, love, or a woman with little or plenty of both, but it can hardly be argued that an artist of any discipline requires one. In their debut recording, Dutch/Polish trio named TRIFID have taken to the stars for theirs. Sticking firmly with an astrological theme, they take ...
Chris Pitsiokos: Silver Bullet in the Autumn of Your Years
by Don Phipps
Adventurous, hair-raising, mind-bending, dense, fibrous, layered, hallucinogenic, twisted. These are the words that come to mind when listening to the excellent but challenging music on Chris Pitsiokos's album Silver Bullet in the Autumn of Your Years. Pitsiokos' compositions often sound like a musical transcription of the trippiest parts of William Burrough's Naked Lunch." The result? An ...
Zlatko Kaućić: Diversity
by John Sharpe
Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaučič learned his craft in the diverse jazz scenes of Barcelona, Berlin, and Amsterdam before returning to his newly independent homeland in 1992. He collaborated extensively with local musicians as well as illustrious visitors such as Steve Lacy, Paul Bley, Chico Freeman, Kenny Wheeler, and Paul McCandless, often utilizing composition and poetic texts. ...
Chris Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History
by Jerome Wilson
Guitarist Chris Jentsch's newest project is a suite that treats various periods of American history to a somewhat skeptical, alternative viewpoint. It doesn't attempt to tell a chronological story but instead hopscotches through topics like the Civil War, Westward Expansion, the Cold War and post-World War II suburban sprawl with a constant sense of unease and ...
Josh Sinton's Predicate Trio: Making Bones, Taking Draughts, Bearing Unstable Millstones Pridefully, Idiotically, Prosaically
by Glenn Astarita
Bass clarinetist and baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton (Ideal Bread, Nate Wooley Quintet, Adam Hopkins' Crickets) has always been a tenacious improviser, and with his new trio bridges the gap between post-modernism, raw experimentalism and core jazz fundamentals. Featuring all-universe drummer Tom Rainey and cellist Chris Hoffman--admired for his work with cutting-edge music acolyte Henry Threadgill and ...
Maurizio Brunod, Giorgio Li Calzi, Boris Savoldelli: Nostalgia Progressiva
by Neri Pollastri
Nato da un'idea di Maurizio Brunod discussa e messa a punto prima con Boris Savoldelli, poi con Giorgio Li Calzi, questo disco documenta un progetto ben individuato dall'indovinato titolo Nostalgia Progressiva: rileggere alcune pagine di quella variante" del rock degli anni Sessanta-Settanta diventata nota come progressive, alla quale molti appassionati del jazz sono rimasti legati, in ...
Michael Kocour: East Of The Sun
by Jack Bowers
Here's another well-planned and immaculately recorded solo album by pianist Michael Kocour, his second such enterprise for OA2 Records (the first, Wherever You Go, There You Are, was released in 2015). As its title suggests, East of the Sun consists almost entirely of gems from the Great American Songbook with one zircon (guitarist Don Gibson's I ...
Jimbo Tribe: Rite of Passage
by Don Phipps
There is much to like about the Italian group Jimbo Tribe's album Rite Of Passage. The trio of pianist Lewis Saccocci, bassist Dario Piccioni, and drummer Nicolò Di Caro are joined by guest trumpeter Anotello Sorrentino, and the quartet offers up imaginative twist after turn. The compositions are engaging and exciting. Changes are planned but feel ...


