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Sonata Islands Quartet: Relendo Villa-Lobos
by Angelo Leonardi
Col gruppo “Sonata Island" il flautista Emilio Galante esplora da anni vari ambiti musicali, privilegiando l'incontro tra autori classici, jazz e musiche popolari. Non poteva quindi mancare un omaggio a Heitor Villa-Lobos, il maggior compositore brasiliano che agli inizi del Novecento suscitò vivaci polemiche per la sintesi tra musica colta europea e tradizioni folk della sua ...
Levitation Orchestra: Inexpressible Infinity
by Chris May
A lot of bull is talked about collective music-making, so it is good to come across a band who not only talk the talk but also walk the walk. Good, too, to come across a debut album that is as outstanding as the thirteen-piece Levitation Orchestra's Inexpressible Infinity. Vibrant, joyous and cosmopolitan, it joins Theon Cross's ...
Avram Fefer Quartet: Testament
by Mark Corroto
After a blindfold listening test, maybe the greatest compliment you can give Testament is to guess the leader's name to be drummer Chad Taylor, or maybe bassist Eric Revis, guitarist Marc Ribot or saxophonist Avram Fefer himself. This misapprehension is attributed to the equal footing each of the four musicians is given on the recording. Partly ...
Greg Diamond: Musings & Origins
by Edward Blanco
Jazz guitarist Greg Diamond unveils his fourth album as leader, and his first solo recording, featuring thirteen original compositions specifically designed for the acoustic guitar. Musings & Origins captures an accomplished composer on a solo adventure performing original music created from 2002 to 2016. Preferring the acoustic guitar to other string instruments, Diamond's finger play and ...
Joel Miller: Unstoppable
by Jack Bowers
Montreal-based saxophonist / composer Joel Miller brings an impressive resume to bear on Unstoppable, a large-ensemble recording aptly described in an accompanying press release as “a 21st-Century chamber symphony." In a career spanning more than two decades, Miller has earned a number of high honors including a Grand Prix Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival for ...
Pat Irwin and J. Walter Hawkes: Wide Open Sky
by Troy Dostert
Multi-instrumentalists Pat Irwin and J. Walter Hawkes are long-established veterans who have practically done it all: they've made numerous television and film soundtracks, played with everyone from Norah Jones to the B-52s and recorded in a wide variety of contexts, too many to name. So when the two finally got together for a Long Island arts ...
Henrik Olsson: Hand of Benediction
by Glenn Astarita
This is the trio's debut recording led by cagey and inventive Swedish guitarist Henrik Olsson for a set that resides in an opaque realm, containing dabs of free jazz, punk jazz and avant-garde rock. The agile and limber trio ventures through some enigmatic musical territory via tight unison phrasings, multipart progressions, animated and linear uprisings along ...
Ronin Arkestra: Sonkei
by Paolo Marra
Dopo aver ascoltato First Meeting l'EP della Ronin Arkestra registrato nel 2017 ci si aspettava un album di debutto che confermasse la qualità del collettivo nipponico, e così è stato. Il disco pubblicato dall'etichetta Albert's Favourites si intitola Sonkei. Il progetto è a tutti gli effetti una creatura del pianista, DJ, produttore e ...
Ghost Horse: Trojan
by Neri Pollastri
Estensione di Hobby Horse—il trio di Dan Kinzelman, Joe Rehmer e Stefano Tamborrino, uno dei più interessanti gruppi italiani (anche se due musicisti su tre sono statunitensi)—Ghost Horse è un sestetto che della formazione d'origine mantiene lo spirito iconoclasta e di sperimentazione, ma anche i ritmi contemporanei e la pluralità stilistica. Accanto ai tre che ne ...
Emilio Solla Tango Jazz Orchestra: Puertos: Music From International Waters
by Dan McClenaghan
Tango music was born in the late nineteenth century in the ports along the shore of the Rio de la Plata which flows to the ocean along the border between Argentina and Uruguay. A sound of the poorer locales, it was a melting-pot music, drawing from European, Native American, Spanish-Cuban, African and Argentinian folk music influences. ...
