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Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
by Paolo Marra
Andare oltre i confini musicali e geografici, sfidandoli prima e abbattendoli dopo, questa è l'essenza della musica di Jaimie Branch, giovane trombettista della scena jazz di Chicago e New York. Il suo stile unico rapppresenta la perfetta incarnazione del corso jazzistico del nuovo millennio in cui confluiscono sperimentazione avanguardistica, punk, free-jazz, elettronica, indie-rock e soprattutto presa ...
Frank Macchia & Brock Avery: Rhythm Abstraction: Azure
by Dan McClenaghan
Reedman-arranger-composer Frank Macchia didn't take the conventional route in putting his EP Rhythm Abstractions: Azure together. He didn't get a huge orchestra in one studio, pass out the charts and explain to the players what he was trying to do. What he did was pare the personnel down to a minimum and turn drummer Brock Avery ...
Erroll Garner: Campus Concert
by Mike Jurkovic
In the history of recorded music, whether it be cave holler, rock, rap, jazz, country or take your pick, there are not a lot of albums that hold one's attention and imagination like the epic Concert By The Sea (Legacy, 2015). But somehow Erroll Garner's other live albums such as this one, the last released in ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals
by Mark Sullivan
Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff is predictably unpredictable. After an early series of piano trio albums she worked with larger ensembles, culminating in the sextet (plus vocalists) of Better Than Gold And Silver (L&H, 2018). After cutting back to a duet with drummer Manu Katché on Colors (L&H, 2019) she returns with a larger band, but with a ...
Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits (Live at The Lobero)
by Mike Jurkovic
A staggering statement of will and love, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live at The Lobero) big bangs from thin air with “Dreamweaver," a twenty-one minute excursion that doubles down on Charles Lloyd's casually grand schemata that anything and everything goes, that as long as we're all in the music's same head space we can know peace. It's ...
Tomasz Dąbrowski FREE4ARTS: When I Come Across
by Troy Dostert
A musician who has frequently changed creative directions, trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski takes yet another uncharted path with his latest FREE4ARTS album, When I Come Across. With erstwhile pianist Jacob Anderskov moving aside for guitarist Simon Krebs, this version of the band now possesses a grittier, rock-inflected sound. With frequent Dabrowski colleague Sven Dam Meinild switching from ...
Ivar Grydeland & Henry Kaiser: In the Arctic Dreamtime
by John Eyles
In January 2019, the renowned guitarists Ivar Grydeland and Henry Kaiser met in a studio in Oslo and, playing electric guitars, recorded a duet soundtrack for the Norwegian silent film Ellsworths flyveekspedition 1925, which is about an unsuccessful 1925 attempt by polar explorer Roald Amundsen to fly over the North Pole by plane. Norway's Grydeland is ...
Paolo Angeli: 22.22 Free Radiohead
by Ian Patterson
There are almost as many strings to guitarist Paolo Angeli's bow as there are on his customized instrument. Ethnomusicologist, researcher and international arts festival director, Angeli plays in duos with Hamid Drake, Iva Bittova and Fred Frith. It's as a solo performer, however, that the Sardinian guitarist is probably best known. On this hour-long solo suite, ...
Biagio Coppa: Slam Dunk Project
by Mark Corroto
Playing the guessing game while listening to Slam Dunk Project by Biagio Coppa's trio will lead you to America and the New World. Which, of course, is the Old World when we are talking about jazz. Zooming in a bit closer, and we hit the East Coast before stopping in the Midwest. Coppa's compositions and the ...
Marcos Valle: Braziliance!
by Chris May
First released in 1966 on Warner Bros., Marcos Valle's third album was his debut US release. An instrumental set, it is packed (if a 29-minute album can be so described) of great tunes composed by Valle with his brother Paulo. Like Antonio Carlos Jobim's own-name US debut, The Composer Of Desafinado Plays (Verve, 1963), another instrumental ...
