Results for "Brandon Lopez"
Giovanni Guidi - il momento della rinascita

by Libero Farnè
Nato a Foligno nel febbraio 1985, l'ancor giovane pianista Giovanni Guidi ha cominciato presto a mettersi in luce nel panorama del jazz italiano, divenendone uno dei più interessanti enfant prodige. Tomorrow Never Knows, il suo primo CD da leader destinato al mercato giapponese, risale al 2006, anno in cui fu inciso e pubblicato. Più o meno ...
Tony Malaby: Turnpike Diaries

by Dave Kaufman
COVID-19 has decimated the live music business and left many jazz musicians without the much-needed income from gigs. The absence of live music has been partially compensated for by livestream performances and a small number of outdoor gigs, including those supported by the Arts for Arts group. Nevertheless, feel-good stories have been few and far between ...
Expanding Light

By Whit Dickey
Label: Tao Forms
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Outer Edge; Desert Flower; Plateau; Expanding Light; Möbius; The Opening.
A tribute to Eddie Gale plus a mix of old and new releases

by Bob Osborne
On this show a tribute to trumpeter, Sun Ra alum, and musical educator Eddie Gale who recently passed away. Also featured, the second album in the Catalytic Artist Album fundraising series from the Erotic Winds trio Joe McPhee with Joe Giardullo and John Howard. As well as some other new releases and archive cuts there is ...
Music from new label Tao Forms

by Bob Osborne
Tao Forms is a new recording label launched in Spring 2020. Drummerimprovisercomposer Whit Dickey is both the creative director and executive producer of this fresh endeavour. Matthew Shipp's The Piano Equation was the label's inaugural release. It was followed by Expanding Light, which is the new work by Whit Dickey himself. The music is distributed by ...
From Wolves to Whales: Strandwal

by Giuseppe Segala
Il quartetto From Wolves to Whales, nome azzeccato per un significativo incontro di quattro personalità al vertice del jazz e dell'improvvisazione contemporanea, si era già proposto nel 2015 con il CD omonimo, dopo il rodaggio di tre concerti a Manhattan e a Brooklyn nel febbraio del 2014. Il sodalizio, imperniato sulla lunga frequentazione di Nate Wooley ...
Dave Sewelson, Satoko Fujii and Tatsuya Yoshida & More

by Maurice Hogue
There's a definite theme of muscular sounding saxophone in this edition of One Man's Jazz: Dave Sewelson, Steve Baczkowski, Chris Pitsiokos, Massimo Magee, Tomasz Szukalski, Marty Ehrlich, Cene Resnik, David Leon, Jonas Kullhammar and Remy Alvarez can all skronk with the best of them, and they're somewhere blowing their reeds apart throughout the music in this ...
Troy Dostert's Best Releases of 2019

by Troy Dostert
Is it jazz? Perhaps not in the narrowest sense, but each of the releases below arguably retains enough of a foothold in the tradition to justify that description. Maybe we've finally reached the point where the question no longer matters. In any case, what these artists have in common is a commitment to venturing outward in ...
Steve Baczkowski: Old Smoke

by John Sharpe
Reedman Steve Baczkowski would surely be better known had he not remained in Buffalo, NY, where he grew up and studied, as he possesses a fearsome sound. In his guise as Music Director of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in his hometown, he's undoubtedly familiar with the German saxophone titan Peter Brötzmann, who is clearly an inspiration. ...