Results for "Blue Note Records"

Charles Lloyd: Vanished Gardens

by Mike Jurkovic
June 27, 2018

Far be it from me to cast a shadow on Vanished Gardens, Charles Lloyd's 80th birthday release. With a career spanning my point of conception to now, as I try to make sense of it all, is my two cents really necessary? So “Defiant" starts out as an extended shadowy and supple Lloyd solo as the ...

Kenny Barron: Concentric Circles

by Mike Jurkovic
May 11, 2018

Hard to believe that, as Kenny Barron turns 75, Concentric Circles is his Blue Note debut, one that is as muscular, fleet, and entertaining as any debut by any man two-thirds his age. Trust Barron's deeply-versed quintet to swing like a big band plus, and “DPW" leaps out at you with a jumping, bop ...

The Nels Cline 4: Currents, Constellations

by Mark Sullivan
April 30, 2018

Guitarist/composer Nels Cline's new quartet builds upon his collaboration with guitarist Julian Lage, which was documented on Room (Mack Avenue, 2014). Both wondered what it would be like to add a rhythm section; respected players, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey, accepted the invitation to join the duo during a residency at The Stone in ...

Nels Cline: Currents, Constellations

by Maurizio Comandini
April 23, 2018

Il primo brano di questo ottimo Currents, Constellation del quartetto di Nels Cline, parte con un accordo straniante e inaspettato che funge da establishing shot. Come succede in tanti film e telefilm, la prima inquadratura è studiata proprio per darci subito le coordinate di un preciso punto di vista che ci trascina dentro alla storia che ...

Nels Cline: Currents, Constellations

by Mike Jurkovic
April 14, 2018

Reigning Wilco guitarist and avant sound sculptor Nels Cline begins his second Blue Note release Currents, Constellations with a loud, vibrant crash of guitar crunch that echoes his many alt/rock road trips. But very quickly the responsive and elastic rhythm section of bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey charges forth while Cline and soul-mate guitarist ...

Runnin' Wild

by Mark Barnett
March 27, 2018

Getting Started If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. CD Capsule Two hot jazz legends melt the thermometer, pushing each other to produce the most inspired work of their careers. As the sportscasters say, “They came to play." Background “So ...

GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star

by Ian Patterson
February 13, 2018

In GoGo Penguin's universe distance is a particularly relative concept. From the beginning of its voyage the trio has orbited musical worlds seemingly light-years apart; jazz, classical, dance, electronica, game soundtracks and minimalism -all fall into GoGo Penguin's gravitational pull to create a singular sonic constellation. With A Humdrum Star (Blue Note Records, 2018), Chris Illingworth, ...

GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star

by Geno Thackara
February 9, 2018

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." -Carl Sagan GoGo Penguin's snappy-yet-offbeat name is a pretty good indicator of their personality—partly inspired ...

GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star

by Phil Barnes
February 8, 2018

If 2016's Man Made Object, their first for Blue Note, was an exercise in consolidating past triumphs while signposting potential ways forward, then there can be no doubt that with A Humdrum Star GoGo Penguin have stepped into a version of that future. Ostensibly the title is a self-effacing reference to a Carl Sagan TV series ...

Man Made Object

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: All Res; Unspeakable Word; Branches Break; Weird Cat; Quiet Mind; Smarra; Initiate; Sbfisysih; Surrender to Mountain; Protest.