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Darrell Katz: Rats Live on No Evil Star
by Angelo Leonardi
La bostoniana Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra è un ampio organico diretto da Darrell Katz e composto da musicisti legati a vario titolo con il New England Conservatory e il Berklee College of Music. Nei suoi trent'anni di attività ha pubblicato una decina di album caratterizzati dal coniugare entro forme compositive complesse e rigorose (con molti ...
Antoine Berjeaut: Moving Cities
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Moving Cities nasce dalla collaborazione tra il trombettista francese Antoine Berjeaut e il batterista e produttore chicagoano Makaya McCraven, entrambi esponenti di “rottura" e fra i più attivi delle proprie scene jazz di riferimento: Berjeaut ha portato una ventata d'aria fresca nel jazz di Francia grazie a una serie di progetti collettivi molto innovativi e a ...
Harish Raghavan: Calls For Action
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Several factors make bassist Harish Raghavan's debut album remarkable. The first and most striking is the sense of extreme urgency in the tone of the compositions as well as the disjointed manner with which the instruments search for common ground in and around each other. Another factor can be found in the understated melodic motifs whose ...
Liquid Quintet: Bouquet
by John Sharpe
After three albums by his Liquid Trio, Catalan pianist Agustí Fernández augments the regular line up of drummer Ramon Prats and saxophonist Albert Cirera with guests bassist Barry Guy and reedman Don Malfon. In the liner notes, Fernández traces the original threesome's lineage back to the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio and, by implication, to their forebears, ...
Donna Khalifé: Hope is the Thing with Feathers
by Hrayr Attarian
Lebanese vocalist and bassist Donna Khalifé is a consummate jazz artist. In addition to mastering singing in all its aspects, including scatting, she is a distinctive composer and an accomplished instrumentalist. On her second release Hope Is the Thing with Feathers she leads her quintet on intriguing interpretations of standards and her own originals.
Emma Frank: Come Back
by Serena Antinucci
Non capita spesso di ascoltare una voce così pacata e rassicurante, capace di amplificare le nostre sensibilità, placare introspezioni turbolente, in un breve istante. La voce di Emma Frank è un corpo a sé, viaggia libera su strade lineari e lo fa con una purezza inusuale. Il suo canto è una memoria della vita e delle ...
Claudio Fasoli: The Brooklyn Option
by Paolo Marra
Tra innovazione e tradizione l'album The Brooklyn Option (Abeat Records) segna il debutto del Claudio Fasoli Quintet, band formata dal sassofonista italiano insieme a musicisti della scena newyorchese: il trombettista Ralph Alessi, il pianista Matt Mitchell, il bassista Drew Gress e il batterista Nasheet Waits. Il sassofonista ritorna come sua abitudine alla collaborazione con ...
Esbjörn Svensson Trio: e.s.t. live in Gothenburg
by Phillip Woolever
More than a decade after a tragic diving accident ended Swedish pianist Esbjorn Svensson's life and thus dissolved his renowned trio, the group remains a potent force in the world of popular jazz recordings. This digital document from a 2001 concert in Gothenburg seems certain to perpetuate that legacy. While much of this album ...
Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love
by John Sharpe
On The People I Love, alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, Janus-like looks back, while simultaneously looking forward. He recruits celebrated pianist Craig Taborn to bolster his longstanding trio of bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid. It was once said that Taborn was fated to play better on other people's records than his own. Happily that is ...
Lauren Lee: Windowsill
by Jerome Wilson
Lauren Lee is a talented pianist and composer, and a singer with a flexibility and sense of adventure in her voice which give her music a light, optimistic feel, although repeated listening reveals it has surprising depth and complexity. She brings elements of art song into the realm of pop-jazz as if she were Meredith Monk ...
