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Carla Bley: Life Goes On
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist / composer Carla Bley is an inspiring woman. Pianist Paul Bley was inspired to marry her, and record a full album of her compositions: Barrage (ESP-Disk, 1965), in addition to including four of her originals on Open, To Love (ECM Records, 1973). George Russell included her “Bent Eagle" on his Stratusfunk (Riverside Records, 1960). Jimmy ...
Oded Tzur: Here Be Dragons
by Karl Ackermann
On his previous releases, Like a Great River (Enja, 2016) and Translator's Note (Enja, 2017), New York-based tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur amalgamated Eastern and Western elements and deep, balmy phrasing which drew sincere comparisons to John Coltrane. Not surprisingly, Manfred Eicher took notice and signed the Tel Aviv native to ECM for his third album, Here ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Entity
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist / composer Satoko Fujii has staked out her ground as one of the most original voices in jazz—or in any artform, for that matter. She has released more than eighty albums, beginning with her 1995 debut, Something About Water (Libra Records), a piano duet set with Paul Bley. She tours relentlessly. She records in every ...
John Yao's Triceratops: How We Do
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il quarantatreenne trombonista newyorchese di chiare origini orientali John Yao dirige in questo album un quintetto solido il cui punto di forza, oltre al leader, è costituito dalla coppia di sax, anche se tutti e cinque i musicisti impegnati fanno per intero la loro parte. Vi si respira un clima post-bop molto ben costruito e tornito, ...
Annie Chen: Secret Treetop
by Angelo Leonardi
Nel suo secondo album la cantante cinese Annie Chen compie un bel passo avanti, imboccando un percorso più complesso ed eclettico, anche se meno accattivante rispetto all'esordio di Pisces The Dreamer. Se in quel disco del 2014 esprimeva la sua adesione ai classici modelli del canto jazz qui Annie sperimenta una sintesi tra jazz moderno e ...
E.R.Z.: Mineskeeper
by Neri Pollastri
E.R.Z., acronimo dei nomi dei membri della formazione, è un trio di musicisti veneti guidato da Enrico Terragnoli, inesausto ricercatore e combinatore di suoni, con Zeno De Rossi--suo antico collaboratore e compagno nell'avventura del Gallo Rojo--alla batteria e l'ormai lanciatissima Rosa Brunello al contrabbasso. In programma una serie di composizioni originali di Terragnoli, che rappresentano bene ...
John McLaughlin Shankar Mahadevan Zakir Hussain: Is That So?
by Ian Patterson
When mandolinist Uppalapu Srinivas passed away in 2014 it seemed to signal the end of Remember Shakti. A great loss to music on both scores. Five years later, in early 2019, the band reformed with violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan for a one-off concert in India, sparking a new lease of life for the band. And many, no ...
No-Man: Love You to Bits
by Geno Thackara
Sometimes a new album is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Fittingly enough, plans for this duo have always been something of a joke anyway; No-Man's career has criss-crossed the whole spectrum of styles precisely because they've always been willing to follow unexpected ideas as the mood hits. It's also the reason the band ...
Rob Clutton with Tony Malaby: Offering
by John Eyles
Toronto-based double-bassist Rob Clutton and New York saxophonist Tony Malaby have history that dates back to 1999; after meeting at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, where both were resident artists, they eventually ended up as half of Toronto drummer Nick Fraser's quartet which released its first album, Starer (Self Produced), in 2016. Clutton has several ...
AP6C Alberto Pinton Sestetto Contemporaneo: Layers
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un sestetto dalle geometrie indiscutibilmente inusuali sta al centro di questo nuovo, ancora una volta ottimo, lavoro del veneziano (ma da tempo immemorabile svedese d'adozione) Alberto Pinton, che si destreggia fra sax baritono, clarinetti e flauti vari determinando (ma non è una regola fissa) le dinamiche dei nove brani che compongono l'album, tutti a sua firma ...
