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Gordon Grdina: The Axe Man Cutting Down Borders
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On JUNO Award-winning oud player and guitarist Gordon Grdina.Gordon's work defies limitations, be they geographical, distance, time, or genre. His music incorporates avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, indie rock, and the Arabic tradition.So much music, so many collaborators, and so much ground to cover in our talk. We made ...
Patricia Brennan: Breaking Stretch
by Dan McClenaghan
On her first two albums, vibraphonist Patricia Brennan worked with a quartet comprised of three percussion instruments, herself on vibes and marimba, joined by percussionist Mauricio Herrera and drummer Marcus Gilmore, with a bassist Kim Cass. Momentum in large part, is the name of the game. For Breaking Stretch she expands her musical universe, adding trumpeter ...
Patricia Brennan: Breaking Stretch
by Mike Jurkovic
Wild-willed vibraphonist Patricia Brennan gets straight down to business without any fanciful mission declaration with the Afro-Cuban, effusively powered, clear-the-dancefloor and blow-the-ceiling-off this joint “Los Otros Yo (The Other Selves)," the opening cut of her third album Breaking Stretch. She does so in a captivatingly, wickedly good way. Brennan--who has added much vitality to ...
Satoko Fujii: Composing Beyond the Jazz Spirit
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On pianist and composer Satoko Fujii, an incredibly unique and prolific artist.Satoko works at the intersection of jazz, contemporary classical, rock, and traditional Japanese music, composing for ensembles of many sizes and configurations. However, she is especially adept with the jazz orchestra format. For all of her efforts, Satoko is ...
Miles Okazaki: A Fresh Take on the Creative Process
by David Bixler
After several decades of creating music in a manner that was beginning to feel routine, guitarist Miles Okazaki was searching for a fresh way to make music. He examined the processes of artists Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt, and Ken Price as templates for creating. In possession of these new ideas gleaned from these artists, he went ...
Ches Smith & Shara Lunon: Dismantling Musical Conventions
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight was meant to shine On drummer, percussionist, and composer Ches Smith and his album Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic Records). As we arranged to get together, Ches suggested we include Shara Lunon, the trans-disciplinary poet, vocalist, composer, and improviser featured on the album. Laugh Ash is one of the most intriguing records I ...
Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii: Aloft
by Doug Collette
Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii has released over one hundred albums since 1996 and, in line with that prolific output, Aloft is the third record she has appeared on just in 2024; see also the Kaze ensemble's Unwritten (Libra Records, 2024) and the Tokyo Trio's Jet Black (Libra Records, 2024). While it is fair to say ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2024
by Mike Chamberlain
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 27-July 6 2024 One of the charges that has historically been leveled against the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (the FIJM, or popularly, the Montreal Jazz Festival) is that the programming had gone from a jazz-centric approach in its early ...
Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura: Aloft
by Mike Jurkovic
Feel air move around you throughout the forty-nine or so minutes of Aloft, the latest entry into the ever-compelling soundtrack of Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura's creative coexistence. It ripples like a pond while it roars like the sea. It rafts the updraft and dives in for the kill. It is life in a nutshell: an ...
Michael Pagán: Paganova
by Pierre Giroux
Pianist/composer Michael Pagán's Paganova is a testament to his prowess in the jazz domain. The release elegantly blends Pagán original compositions with three masterful arrangements of post-bop classics, which are both cohesive and exhilarating. In addition to Pagán, the other members of the quintet are multi-versatile saxophonists David Chael and Michael Herrera and the rhythm section ...
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