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Dhafer Youssef: Diwan Of Beauty And Odd

by Neri Pollastri
Si rimane letteralmente a bocca aperta ascoltando Fly Shadow Fly," traccia di apertura di questo lavoro del tunisino Dhafer Youssef, qui accompagnato da un gruppo di stelle emergenti: a lungo la sua voce si intreccia al mirabile piano di Aaron Parks, prima descrivendo--in arabo -volute su una tonalità bassa e avvolgente, poi salendo di tono fino ...
Diego Barber: One Minute Later

by Dan Bilawsky
Diego Barber's One Minute Later is something of a dance between certainty and dubiety, grounded in the guitarist-composer's convictions that the truth behind an improviser's feelings and musical fate relate directly to that which Federico García Lorca described in Poeta en Nueva York as a minute of contrition that comes with--or follows-- complete liberation. It's a ...
Alex Wintz: LifeCycle

by Dan Bilawsky
Life cycles mark and determine how we develop, where we travel, and why we arrive and thrive in different places, figuratively and literally, at any given time. That's the point that guitarist Alex Wintz's music makes here, as this project takes its cues from the larger natural theme while growing specifically from his own personal and ...
Jazz Standard Begins New "Mobetta Tuesdays" Weekly Residency Led By Grammy Award-Winning Trumpeter / Producer Maurice "Mobetta" Brown

One of the nation’s premier jazz clubs, Jazz Standard, today announced the inauguration of “Mobetta Tuesdays,” a new Tuesday night residency by mastermind trumpeter/composer/arranger/producer Maurice “Mobetta” Brown. Beginning March 14th with a CD release concert celebrating his latest album The Mood, “Mobetta Tuesdays” will bring a dynamic, distinctive sound that uniquely marries contemporary jazz, blues-rock and ...
The Meeting

By Oleg Kireyev
Label: Inarhyme Records, LLC
Released: 2016
Track listing: April; Inwardly; Estate; The Meeting; Caravan; Body and Soul; Fresh Blues; April (alternate take); Fresh Blues (alternate take).
Etienne Charles: San José Suite

by Nigel Campbell
Whenever Trinidadian jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles releases an album, it is an event. In this case, it is his latest opus, the ten-part San José Suite--soon to be performed live in Trinidad and Tobago for the first time on November 20. [The album was released in the US in June 2016 and debuted live ...
Victor Gould: Clockwork

by Dan Bilawsky
There are lots of moving parts that make clocks tick. Each has its own function, harmoniously aligned with the others, and every single one helps to sustain the very concepts of time and flow. The analogy can clearly be drawn from these mechanisms behind timepieces to jazz in general, but it's rarely as obvious to the ...
Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions

by Mario Calvitti
Il live in studio voluto da Pat Metheny per documentare il livello raggiunto dal gruppo nel corso del lungo tour mondiale che ha toccato 150 città vede ora la luce nella versione solo audio, dopo essere già stato pubblicato qualche mese fa come DVD/Blu Ray Disc. L'innesto del polistrumentista italiano Giulio Carmassi è bastato a trasformare ...
Greg Osby: Saxophone “Griot”

by Victor L. Schermer
The griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician, a repository of oral tradition who is often seen as a societal leader. Saxophonist Greg Osby recently was excited to meet some griots on his travels. While he is originally from St. Louis, he himself is a griot in many senses of the ...
Oleg Kireyev & Keith Javors: The Meeting

by Edward Blanco
Performing together since 2007, Russian saxophonist Oleg Kireyev and Philadelphia-based pianist Keith Javors formed a solid quartet they eventually led to the studio for their debut album Rhyme & Reason (Inarhyme Records, 2010). The Meeting is their follow up recording with a program of four originals and three re-imagined tunes from The Great American Songbook delivered ...