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John Ilija Apelgren and Gordan Spasovski: Midnight Conversation
by Nenad Georgievski
Duet records can be very revealing. They can demand the utmost attention from two musicians who play either in support, in discussion or entwined. Playing with another person means playing solo and in support at the same time and, when this works well, it can be magical. Something magical happens with the pairing of Macedonian jazz ...
Lorena Favot: Landscapes
by Angelo Leonardi
Il nuovo disco di Lorena Favot conferma le brillanti doti della cantante friulana, a suo agio tanto nel vocalizzare e improvvisare in scat quanto nel calarsi in ruoli più tradizionali. A questo aggiunge un significativo apporto come autrice in sette delle dieci composizioni dell'album. Con timbro nitido, puntualità d'intonazione e gusto interpretativo, Lorena spazia dalla canzone ...
Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Harder On The Outside
by Mark Corroto
Sometimes a single track can satisfy an album's worth of listening. You get that feeling with “People be Talking," the first song on Jon Lundbom's ninth release with his band Big Five Chord. His quintet packs everything into this kitchen sink composition. The piece is jazz-and-not-jazz, like Miles Davis affected in his transitional years between his ...
Alister Spence: Imagine Meeting You Here
by Doug Hall
Imagine Meeting You Here (Alister Spence Music, 2019) is the release by Alister Spence, a recognized leader in Australia's new music directive and one of his country's most original and distinctive jazz pianists and composers of orchestral pieces. Certainly there is a reflection in the title of this release that is his biographical journey and meeting ...
Nypan: Big City
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Norwegian guitarist and composer Øyvind Nypan had a special project and, accordingly, special musicians in mind when conceptualizing his newest and third record for Losen Records, Big City. After contacting pianist Taylor Eigsti and receiving his positive response, Nypan was able to rally together the rest of the cast and shortly afterwards ended up recording this ...
Maaike den Dunnen: Inner Space
by Jerome Wilson
Maaike den Dunnen is a Dutch singer-songwriter with an exuberant and confident voice. On this CD, backed by a tight trio, she shows how powerfully she can come across both on joyous jazz-funk tunes and dreamy art songs. This contrast is demonstrated in the first two tracks. On “Nature's Call" Dunnen's voice dances over ...
Bobby Bradford - Hafez Modirzadeh: live at the Blue Whale
by Glenn Astarita
Cornetist Bobby Bradford (Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, John Carter) has been a pivotal figure in the “new" jazz leanings on the U.S. West Coast and the global panorama, performing with the best and brightest. Since 2016, Bradford co-leads a quartet with reedman and musicologist Hafez Modirzadeh (Amir ElSaffar, Rudresh Mahanthappa), supplemented by the strong and impassioned ...
Celano, Badenhorst, Baggiani: Lili & Marleen
by Alberto Bazzurro
Guillermo Celano e Marcos Baggiani, chitarrista e batterista poco più che quarantenni nati a Buenos Aires ma da tempo trapiantati in Olanda, incontrano il polistrumentista belga Joachim Badenhorst in seno a un trio il cui pregio che salta per primo all'occhio è la coesione. Il brano è appunto quello iniziale che intitola il CD (c'è solo ...
Frank Morgan & George Cables: Montreal Memories
by Jack Bowers
Alto saxophonist Frank Morgan and pianist George Cables, two seasoned pros at the top of their game, joined forces to map this superb concert performance at the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival. Morgan--unchained at last from his debilitating heroin addiction and four years removed from prison--is a wellspring of creativity and passion, while Cables, eleven years Morgan's ...
Dr. Mark Lomax, II: 400: An Afrikan Epic
by Karl Ackermann
The origins of the continent's name are not clear, but in the language of most of its inhabitants, the spelling is Afrika. The colonizers from Portugal, Britain and France adulterated the spelling for uniformity to their own phonics beginning in the fifteenth century, as they launched the cultural marginalizing of tens of millions. Dr. Mark Lomax ...
