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Mats Eilertsen: And Then Comes The Night
by Mike Jurkovic
On their first offering for ECM as a trio, And Then Comes The Night, stalwart label mates: bassist/leader/composer {Mats Eilertsen, drummer Thomas Strønen, and ethereal pianist Harmen Fraanje deftly create a sustained work of near impossible beauty and sublime human interaction. With evanescent shifts of time, shaded harmony and tone, Eilertsen--his nuanced writing highlighted ...
Kirk Knuffke: Witness
by Jerome Wilson
Kirk Knuffke has brought his cornet skills to a lot of different music in his career. As a leader, he has recorded albums dedicated to the work of Erik Satie and Don Cherry and he's even covered an Ernest Tubb song. This album gives a greater picture of how wide his interests stretch as he delves ...
Jamie Saft: You Don't Know The Life
by Doug Collette
We should all be as comfortable in our own skin as Jamie Saft. Zen-like tranquility emanates from his music no matter the form of his projects: the ambient ensemble Plymouth, solo piano, vocals by Iggy Pop on Loneliness Road (RareNoise, 2017), or a small combo like his quartet. This multi- instrumentalist/composer is so secure in his ...
Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends
by Mike Jurkovic
Ever leading the avant-garde, trumpeter Ralph Alessi has never been pressed for future-forward ideas or the time to express them in whatever setting best suits the music. Not counting his prodigious work alongside such leading figures as Fred Hersch, Don Byron, and Steve Coleman, in this tumultuous century alone Alessi has led and released such challenging ...
In Orbit: in Orbit
by Anya Wassenberg
In Orbit--the group, the song and the album--have a groovy 70s retro kind of feel, crashing chords, melody and dissonance, all to a disco beat. High on energy, with an emphasis on danceable grooves, In Orbit is a cross-border group with a core of Canadian guitarist Michael Occhipinti and American saxophonist Jeff Coffin, who ...
Jacob Sacks: Fishes
by Vincenzo Roggero
Quintetto molto interessante quello allestito da Jacob Sacks, talentuoso pianista newyorchese che in Fishes riunisce alcuni dei musicisti più rappresentativi di quella città. Interessante perché lungi dall'essere una prova di forza (come la presenza dei due fiati poteva far supporre) o una celebrazione delle spiccate personalità dei componenti del gruppo (tutti titolari di importanti formazioni), Fishes ...
Aaron Parks: Little Big
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo un decennio caratterizzato da svariate collaborazioni, esibizioni pianistiche in solo (Arborescence) e in differenti trio (Alive in Japan e Find The Way), Aaron Parks torna a un pieno ruolo di compositore e leader sviluppando l'estetica del celebrato Invisible Cinema. Protagonista è un quartetto d'identica strumentazione ma con nuovi partner: il chitarrista neozelandese ...
Chris Potter: Circuits
by Roger Farbey
Circuits is, stylistically, relatively far removed from Chris Potter's previous album, The Dreamer Is The Dream (ECM, 2017) but is certainly no less attractive. Whilst the earlier album is, generally, more sedate (with some exceptions), this record is full of heterogeneous, unanticipated delights and handbrake rhythm turns. That said, the short-ish opener, “Invocation," with Potter on ...
Joe Lovano: Trio Tapestry
by Mike Jurkovic
With all tonalities being created equal, on Trio Tapestries, Joe Lovano's first as a leader for ECM and one of the first releases of the label's fiftieth year, silence abides. Both as concept and as actuality, silence lays at the heart of this eleven song lattice. Even the spacing between the tracks hangs appended, allowing the ...
Jones Jones: A Jones In Time Saves Nine
by John Sharpe
Over a decade in existence and the free jazz trio Jones Jones has just dropped its third album. That's not exactly prolific, but may well be an accurate reflection of the challenge implicit in bringing together colleagues separated by the 5795 miles between reedman Larry Ochs and bassist Mark Dresser in California, and percussionist Vladimir Tarasov ...
