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Giancarlo Tossani: Strange Spy
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Proprio dopo aver raggiunto l'ideale sublimazione sonora e l'equilibrio strutturale nell'album Newswok con il progetto Synapser ed il contributo di Ralph Alessi, il pianista e compositore di stanza a Cremona rimescola le proprie carte creative ripartendo (quasi) da zero con il progetto-disco Strange Spy che, fin dal titolo (anagramma di G. T. Synapser), si presenta in ...
Hailu Mergia: Yene Mircha
by Chris May
While Mulatu Astatke is the musician most widely associated with the creation of Ethio-jazz, fellow keyboardist Hailu Mergia is among other significant figures. Astatke is best known overseas because he was the most outward looking of Ethio-jazz's first generation, studying at London's Trinity College of Music and Boston's Berklee College of Music and making his first ...
Eric Alexander: With Strings
by Jack Bowers
To paraphrase Cole Porter: “Bird did it, Chet did it... even many vocalists I bet did it..." And now tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander did it--recorded an album with strings, that is. This represents quite a departure for Alexander who is widely known as one of the more emotive and resourceful improvisers on the scene; but so ...
Max Andrzejewski's Hütte: Hütte & Guests Play the Music of Robert Wyatt
by Jerome Wilson
Robert Wyatt is a unique figure in modern music. He came out of Canterbury, England's music scene in the 60s, gaining his first notoriety as drummer and singer with the jazz-inclined rock band, The Soft Machine. In the 70's he briefly led a more experimental jazz-rock outfit, Matching Mole, and then moved on to a solo ...
Tina Brooks Quintet: The Complete Recordings
by Chris May
Mosaic Records' spring 2020 release The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70, the second of the label's box sets devoted to the copiously recorded (and rightly so) Hank Mobley, prompts thoughts of another of Blue Note's singular hard-bop tenor saxophone stylists. Unlike Mobley, Tina Brooks was woefully under-recorded, making just four albums under his own ...
Zack Clarke Trio: Vertical Shores
by Alberto Bazzurro
Ottime vibrazioni ci trasmette questo terzo album (più un paio di collaborazioni) a nome del giovane pianista texano (newyorchese d'adozione) Zack Clarke. Vivace, corporale, la partenza ("Foreign Waters"), con successivi momenti di stasi-ripiegamento, sospensioni, in un'alternanza di umori decisamente premiante sul piano delle dinamiche, la cui vivacità rappresenta a conti fatti l'elemento di maggior rilievo del ...
Sarah Murcia: Eyeballing
by Vincenzo Roggero
A poco più di vent'anni entra a far parte della Magic Malik Orchestra, formazione nella quale resterà per oltre due lustri. Poi la carriera di Sarah Murcia (studi classici di pianoforte e violoncello prima, il contrabbasso sotto la guida di Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark poi) apre nuovi orizzonti. Diviene apprezzata compositrice di musiche da film, teatro e danza ...
Benjamin Boone with the Ghana Jazz Collective: Joy
by Dan Bilawsky
When saxophonist Benjamin Boone took a sabbatical from his teaching position at California State University Fresno to travel to Ghana as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, he envisioned a yearlong educational immersion in the music, arts and broader culture of the region. What he couldn't have imagined, which became reality, was connecting with a set of Accra-based ...
Rez Abbasi: OASIS
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Rez Abbasi and harpist Isabelle Olivier's OASIS (an acronym for Olivier Abbasi Sound In Sound) is embodiment of fusion. Not the variety you may recognize as jazz-rock fusion, more like fusion cooking, for example Korean-Mexican or sushi-pizza. Okay, not sushi-pizza, but you get the idea. Olivier and Abbasi are pulling together jazz, Indian-Pakistani, and European ...
Teymur Phell: Master Volume
by Geno Thackara
This crackling debut from Teymur Phell is a hearty, eclectic and loud funk-fusion party. He sets the tone right away with “Zero to Sixty"--a title that's actually a bit misleading since it kicks off already at sixty mph—and shows that he knows his way around a bass, and also has plenty of use for one with ...
