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Chris Gall: Room Of Silence
by Don Phipps
Chris Gall's Room of Silence shines best on its original material, and it's a good thing since the album has ten originals and four covers. In keeping with his classical foundation, Gall's compositions feel like ballets. One can picture dancers stepping gently along a brook, underneath a late-afternoon sky on a fall day in Vermont. Like ...
Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, Federico Ughi.: New York United
by Mike Jurkovic
Like all folk musics exposed to migration, the rhythms shift and drone. The bottom falls out of harmonic structures and then reconstitutes from thin air. Oratorical woodwinds, strings, horns and whistles mournfully proclaim or brightly celebrate. Bringing New York folk music to light, New York United open their self-titled disc with the pulsating “Canal Street," a ...
Marta Sanchez: Danza Imposible
by Neri Pollastri
Terzo disco a proprio nome per la giovane pianista e compositrice madrilena Marta Sanchez, formazione classica e alcuni anni passati a New York dopo la decisione di dedicarsi interamente al jazz. La formazione che qui guida è un classico quintetto composta da un trio e da una front line di due sax, ma ha la particolarità ...
Steve Tibbetts: Life Of
by Mario Calvitti
Pochi musicisti sono così sfuggenti a ogni tentativo di categorizzazione come il chitarrista americano Steve Tibbetts. La sua musica, da lui descritta come 'neo-primitivismo postmoderno' trae le sue origini inizialmente dal folk-rock sperimentale, spostandosi poi sempre più verso una dimensione world-ambient (nutrita dal profondo interesse dell'artista verso la musica nepalese e tibetana) realizzata attraverso una costante ...
Eugenia Choe: Verdant Dream
by Mark Sullivan
Pianist/composer Eugenia Choe is based in New York, but took a circuitous route to get there. Born in South Korea, she spent years in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago (where she majored in mathematics and classical piano performance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). In New York, Eugenia graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from ...
Billy Pod: Drums To Heal Society
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Athens-based drummer Vassilis Podaras, going by the name of Billy Pod, has been an active musician on the contemporary Greek jazz scene for over ten years and now decides it's the right time to record and release his debut album Drums To Heal Society. With the exception of Feist's “Limit To Your Love," all of the ...
Daniel Herskedal: Voyage
by Roger Farbey
Daniel Herskedal's third release for Edition Records is no less intriguing than his first two, Slow Eastbound Train (2015) and The Roc (2017). It's tempting to summarise the album as “pastoral," but there's a lot more to it than that solitary adjective. Granted, tunes like “The Horizon" and “Molly Hunt's Seagulls" really are pastoral, dreamlike, and ...
Poline Renou, Matthieu Donarier, Sylvain Lemêtre: Adieu mes très belles
by Alberto Bazzurro
Rielaborando testi e musiche compresi fra dodicesimo e diciassettesimo secolo (e distribuiti tra Francia, Italia, Irlanda, Cipro, Portogallo e Inghilterra) e aggiungendovi pagine proprie, questo trio, naturale estensione del duo Kindergarten fra Poline Renou e Matthieu Donarier, confeziona un lavoro alquanto inusuale, prezioso ed elegante, che non disdegna l'abbraccio con le istanze della libera improvvisazione, inguainandola ...
Enrico Zanisi: Blend Pages
by Neri Pollastri
Dopo due album per piano trio e uno in solitudine, Enrico Zanisi si cimenta con un più complesso progetto di scrittura, nel quale vanno a convergere i suoi diversi interessi di ambito classico e jazzistico, nonché una serie di composizioni nate in un periodo di cambiamento della vita del non ancora trentenne musicista e che ne ...
Ran Blake / Claire Ritter: Eclipse Orange
by Dan McClenaghan
The concert that resulted in the CD Eclipse Orange was done in honor of pianist Thelonious Monk's 100th birthday, but there's so much more than a Monk showcase here. Pianists Claire Ritter and Ran Blake play in duets and solos, and Ritter shares the stage with Australian saxophonist Kent O'Doherty on five tunes, in an atmospheric ...
