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Hyde Park Jazz Festival 2017
by Mark Corroto
Hyde Park Jazz Festival Chicago, IL September 23-24, 2017 Even though the 11th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival is on the books and the music is no longer audible, the spirit of the weekend endures. What has become an annual rite and celebration of music, culture, and maybe above, all ...
Avishai Cohen - Trumpet: Cross My Palm With Silver
by Karl Ackermann
If trumpeter Avishai Cohen's ECM debut, Into The Silence was a work of deeply personal content, Cross My Palm With Silver plays out with the same emotional impact, but on a global stage. Cohen composed the five pieces on this album in his native Israel, while contemplating the impact of political division on the human psyche. ...
The Bad Plus: It's Hard
by Luca Canini
Bellino. Con un paio di cose decisamente riuscite. Ma che pochissimo aggiunge (e nulla toglie) a quel che i Bad Plus hanno detto, confermato e ribadito nel corso di quindici anni di più che onorata carriera. Fine della recensione. Nel senso che quel che leggerete da qui in poi potrebbe esservi utile nel caso in cui ...
Andrew Cyrille & Bill McHenry: Proximity
by Budd Kopman
In its 80-year history, the Village Vanguard has had its share of legendary shows and, because of its intimacy, extended gigs and knowledgeable audience, has been the place for a large number of live recordings, including most recently, Enrico Pieranunzi's New Spring. While Proximity is not a live recording, the impetus for the recording ...
JD Allen: Americana
by Angelo Leonardi
Con questa profonda, austera e appassionata indagine sul blues, JD Allen intende ribadire la sua centralità nell'ambito della musica statunitense (“il blues è la porta d'ingresso -dice nelle note -per il passato e il futuro della musica americana; la fonte da cui gospel, jazz, rock, country, rhythm & blues e hip hop sono formulati. Lo spirito ...
Cyrille secondo Tononi
by Tiziano Tononi
Tiziano Tononi è da sempre un ammiratore di Andrew Cyrille, dal cui senso del ritmo ha tratto ispirazione per i numerosi progetti che da decenni porta avanti cercando un ideale ponte culturale tra la scena jazzistica afro-americana e quella italiana. Abbiamo approfittato della uscita, quasi contemporanea, dei CD “Proximity" e “The Declaration of ...
Guillermo Klein: Los Guachos V
by Budd Kopman
If a creator has a vision, being persistent in working to bring it to life is a requirement. This is true in life, for visions big and small, and not just for artists. Pianist, composer and band leader Guillermo Klein most definitely fits that bill. His group, Los Guachos (literally, The Bastards) has been ...
Ben Monder: Amorphous Music
by Nenad Georgievski
Ben Monder is a guitarist with a singular and influential voice. While he has received a great acclaim for his multifaceted work and unparalleled technical facility, Monder has also demonstrated remarkable breadth both as a bandleader and composer. His debut album for ECM Amorphae is a kind of a movie for one's ears. Amorphae consists of ...
Avishai Cohen - Trumpet: Into the Silence
by Karl Ackermann
Israeli-born trumpeter and prodigy Avishai Cohen was already touring with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra as a teenager. He attended Berklee College of Music, and later, placed highly in the Thelonious Monk jazz trumpet competition. A progressive-thinking artist, he hasn't looked back musically. With his highly regarded group, Triveni, Cohen challenged his own resourcefulness and creative process ...
ECM Records Releases Avishai Cohen's "Into The Silence"
Avishai Cohen: trumpet; Yonathan Avishai: piano; Eric Revis: double bass; Nasheet Waits: drums; Bill McHenry: tenor saxophone. Avishai Cohen impressed a lot of listeners with his soulful contributions to Mark Turner’s Lathe of Heaven album in 2014. Now the charismatic Tel Aviv-born trumpeter has his ECM leader debut in a program of expansive and impressionistic compositions ...
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