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Stellari String Quartet: Vulcan
by Alberto Bazzurro
A dieci anni esatti dal precedente (e fin qui unico) album Gocce stellari, uscito sempre su Emanem, il quartetto d'archi capitanato da Philipp Wachsmann, settantacinquenne violinista ugandese di nascita e inglese d'adozione, torna alla carica con questo nuovo capitolo (incisioni, peraltro, del 2016), fondato come il precedente su un'improvvisazione di gruppo a cavallo fra avanguardia jazzistica ...
Wayne Horvitz: Those Who Remain
by Neri Pollastri
L'imprevedibile Wayne Horvitz è qui nelle vesti esclusivamente di autore di due composizioni di stampo schiettamente classico, entrambe impreziosite dalla presenza di un solista improvvisatore. Il primo dei due lavori è un concerto per orchestra in due parti, per complessivi diciassette minuti, interpretato dalla Northest Sinfonia con Bill Frisell in veste di solista. Dopo ...
Bear Garden: Bear Garden
by Geno Thackara
There's just something about the saxophone that goes with sounding big and ambitious. Bear Garden (or Martin Wirén when he's at home) certainly shows some of those signs with unashamedly grand melodicism and a feel for the expansive and cinematic. Though Bear Garden's running time leans toward the short side of LP length, this octet—rhythm section, piano, ...
Dewa Budjana and Tohpati: Janapati
by Chris M. Slawecki
Janapati combines the names of two of the best guitarists (jazz, rock, jazz-rock fusion, world, and any/every other music you've got) from Indonesia, Dewa Budjana and Tohpati Ario Hutomo (Tohpati). As leaders of their own bands or as contributors to other recordings, the two have appeared on more than fifty combined releases, many for the globetrotting ...
Setoladimaiale Unit & Evan Parker: Live at Angelica 2018
by Neri Pollastri
Per celebrare i venticinque anni di vita dell'etichetta indipendente Setola di Maiale, una delle principali documentatrici dell'improvvisazione nel nostro paese, la rassegna bolognese Angelica organizzò nel maggio del 2018 un concerto della Setoladimaiale Unit, ensemble aperto che raccoglieva alcuni degli artisti che contribuiscono alla vita della label, al quale per l'occasione si aggiungeva uno degli storici ...
Nick Finzer: Cast Of Characters
by Dan McClenaghan
A cryptic element lurks beneath trombonist Nick Finzer's Cast Of Characters. The theme of the album is artistic influences. But who are they... “We laugh, we cry, we celebrate, we learn, and we forge our own path on the shoulders of those who came before us. We are both the sum of our experience ...
Franz Koglmann Septet: Fruits Of Solitude
by Mark Corroto
Franz Koglmann must be a connoisseur of vinification, i.e. winemaking, because his Fruits Of Solitude has the feel of a master vintner at work. Specifically, wine blends like Super Tuscans or Côtes du Rhônes mark his amalgam of European chamber music and American jazz. Koglmann is a true polymath in that he hears all and rejects ...
Hymn: Silence, Then Birds
by John Sharpe
Under the moniker Hymn, the British threesome of trumpeter Chris Dowding, violinist Sylvia Hallett and electronicist David Ross present extemporized slices of understated minimalism distinguished by aching melodies emerging from a granular scratchy undertow. They maintain a taut balance between repetition, movement and noise on three tracks recorded live in London and Norwich, with outcomes variously ...
Raquel Cepeda: Passion: Latin Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
Raquel Cepeda, prominent member of the Houston Jazz Mafia, drops her second recording, Passion: Latin Jazz, as a follow up to her exceptional debut, I'm Confessin' (Peonia Music, 2013). Her artistic growth over the last six years has been one of an increased gravity and a centering of her repertoire. She brings a completely new band ...
Brooklyn Funk Essentials: Stay Good
by Chris M. Slawecki
Back in the day, jazz bands like Roy Ayers' Ubiquity and soul bands like the Ohio Players played more than jazz and soul. Jazz and soul were their main ingredient, but only one ingredient among others stirred in from R&B, funk, pop, Latin and other music. You might have heard them on different radio stations, but ...
