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Orice Jenkins: Centennial Cole
by Angelo Leonardi
Nel suo pregevole secondo album (Soar, Truth Revolution Records 2016) Orice Jenkins aveva già cantato uno dei successi di Nat King Cole -"When I Fall In Love" -rendendo esplicite la vicinanza affettiva e la somiglianza stilistica con quel grande interprete. La giovane voce del cantante di Hartford (Connecticut) non ha ancora la profondità e ...
Avery Sharpe: 400: An African American Musical Portrait
by Angelo Leonardi
Sono passati quattrocento anni dal primo agosto 1619, quando una nave olandese sbarcò una ventina di africani nell'insediamento inglese di Jamestown in Virginia. Erano stati sottratti a un bastimento spagnolo diretto in America latina ma visto che erano stati battezzati--e il codice inglese proibiva di ridurre in schiavitù dei cristiani--lavorarono come servitori a debito. Una sorta ...
Gaetano Partipilo: Boom Collective
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
"Welcome to the Boom Collective world. Make some space into your heart and fill it with love and music and these vibes that come from within. Close you eyes, feel it, touch it." Con queste parole pronunciate sulla base swingante di batteria e di basso dell'iniziale “Opening Gate," Angela Esmeralda dà il benvenuto nel ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Hero Trio
by Dan McClenaghan
In the chordless trio tradition of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins on A Night At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1957) and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz with his Motion (Verve, 1961), alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa offers up his Hero Trio, a saxophone, bass and drums outing nodding to his influential musical heros. Mahanthappa began his ...
Anne Mette Iversen Quartet + 1: Racing a Butterfly
by Friedrich Kunzmann
A working collective since 2002, Anne Mette Iversen's quartet—saxophonist John Ellis, pianist Danny Grissett, drummer Otis Brown III and Iversen herself on bass—has developed a unique musical language, which transcends typical stigmas of the genre and demonstrates a special sense of light-footedness in navigating through the different bars and meters, all the while evading the self-indulgent. ...
Sara Schoenbeck/Wayne Horvitz: Cell Walk
by Dan Bilawsky
The relationship between Sara Schoenbeck, one of the only bassoon practitioners to truly and successfully fold the instrument's sound into the realm of chamber jazz, and pianist Wayne Horvitz, a touchstone in creative music, has been documented in the past. The work of Horvitz's Gravitas Quartet, formed in 2004 and featuring Schoenbeck alongside trumpeter Ron Miles ...
Etuk Ubong: Africa Today
by Chris May
Lagos-based Etuk Ubong is part of a long line of fiery, Afrobeat-rooted, hard bop-influenced trumpeters which stretches back to Tunde Williams, who was in the 1960s a founder member of Fela Kuti's seminal band, Africa 70. Kuti's legacy figures large in Ubong's music, which he styles “earth music" and which is characterised by urgent tempos, powerful ...
Ted Moore Trio: The Natural Order of Things
by Jack Bowers
A piano trio led by a drummer? While that may not always be The Natural Order of Things, it is here. The drummer is the veteran Ted Moore, his teammates the talented pianist Phil Markowitz and rock-solid bassist Kai Eckhardt. Moore composed and arranged (almost) all of the music, which enlivens themes from Brazil and Spain, ...
Stillefelt: Stillefelt
by Mark Sullivan
British bassist/electronics player Chris Mapp initially formed the Stillefelt trio as a “quiet band" in response to his group Gonimoblast, which can often be quite the opposite, as heard on Gonimoblast Live (Stoney Lane Records, 2017). The band name means “quiet field" in Norwegian. Mapp is joined by Percy Pursglove (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Thomas Seminar ...
Luigi Martinale French Trio: Mercj
by Neri Pollastri
Il pianista torinese Luigi Martinale, al quarto disco per Abeat, è qui alla testa del suo French Trio, completato dal contrabbassista francese Michel Molines e dal batterista brasiliano residente a Lione Zaza Desiderio, con il quale interpreta dieci brani, in larga misura di sua composizione. C'è in effetti qualcosa di transalpino nelle atmosfere che ...
