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Kneebody: Chapters
by Mike Jacobs
Chapters--the title of Kneebody's 2019 release--has a certain appropriateness, as it definitely marks several new ones for the band. One being that lyric-oriented songs account for nearly half of the material on the album. Technically, vocals are nothing new to Kneebody. The band included one track with vocals on their 2002 proto-Kneebody album Wendel. Its 2009 ...
Leo Sherman: Tonewheel
by Dan Bilawsky
Bassist Leo Sherman knows a thing or two about turns in tone connected to life, time, language and music. Born in Russia, in a repressive, antisemitic atmosphere that eventually drove his family from their homeland, he overcame several layers of adversity some 5,000 miles away, where he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. There, he became fluent ...
Schiaffini, Prati, Gemmo, Armaroli: Luc Ferrari Exercises d'improvisation
by Neri Pollastri
Luc Ferrari, compositore contemporaneo allievo di Messiaen e Honegger, scomparso nel 2005 all'età di settantasei anni, è stato tra gli sperimentatori di forme diverse di composizione, utilizzando tra l'altro nastri magnetici e interazione con l'improvvisazione. Entrambe queste forme convergono nei suoi “esercizi d'improvvisazione," sette registrazioni su nastro di suoni elettronici pensate come stimolo e base per ...
Elliot Galvin: Modern Times
by Vincenzo Roggero
Elliot Galvin, a soli ventotto anni, sta emergendo come cristallino talento tra i numerosi pianisti sfornati nel corso degli ultimi anni dalla Gran Bretagna. Membro chiave dei Dinosaur di Laura Jurd, autore con The Influencing Machine di un album considerato da Downbeat tra i migliori del 2018, Galvin licenzia questo Modern Times ancora con il medesimo ...
Mulo Francel & Chris Gall: Mythos
by Mike Jurkovic
Even though Mythos exhibits little variation of intent or tone, and perhaps leans towards the blurry borders of new age, this saxophone-piano duet by Mulo Francel and Chris Gall, two European players catching a lot of continental attention—Francel with the globe-trotting, multiple award winning world music/jazz/acoustic German ensemble Quadro Nuevo, and Gall, who not only frequently ...
Jamie Breiwick: Awake: The Music of Don Cherry
by Mark Sullivan
Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry is best known for his long association with composer/saxophonist Ornette Coleman. But he also had a diverse career as a bandleader and composer in his own right, and was especially prominent in the fusion of jazz and world music. Wisconsin-based trumpeter Jamie Breiwick mostly draws from Cherry's solo repertoire for this ...
Rebecca Angel: Santa Baby
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Rebecca Angel turns in a humid, if chaste, reading of the Joan Javits / Philip and Anthony Springer chestnut “Santa Baby." Bassist Reggie Washington provides a full-throated walk-in intro that evolves into a plush sonic wonderland cushioned with Jason Miles' slippery Hammond B3 playing buffeted with electric piano support. Dennis Angel blows a wintery mix ...
Piotr Damasiewicz & Power Of The Horns Ensemble: Polska
by Chris May
Poland's jazz tradition is perhaps the deepest rooted in all of Europe. Only Britain can rival it. But unlike British jazz, Polish jazz began in part as a declaration of protest against slavery and repression, as did that of its American parent, and this has given it a special quality. The slavery and repression were occasioned ...
Rodrigo Amado / Chris Corsano: No Place to Fall
by John Sharpe
Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's early output has been notable for the freewheeling interplay between him and other talented horn players like trombonist Jeb Bishop, trumpeter Peter Evans and multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee. It's the quartet he fronts with McPhee which contains the seed for this Lisbon studio date from summer 2014, in that it includes the drummer ...
Roberta Piket: Domestic Harmony: Piket Plays Mintz
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Roberta Piket was subbing in trombonist Joey Sellers' band in 1998 when she first met drummer Billy Mintz. In an All About Jazz interview, in 2011 with Victor Schermer, Piket said of that first encounter: “I noticed Billy, because the room was very dark, and yet he was wearing sunglasses; he seemed very strange. But ...
