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Tomas Sauter: Magic Carpet
by Budd Kopman
Guitarist Tomas Sauter, whose last release was the wonderful duo recording Indian Summer (Catwalk, 2006) with bassist Daniel Schlaeppi, now gives us a quite different sound and vision with Magic Carpet. As before, the sound is superb, having been recorded by Daniel Dettwiler and mixed and mastered by Jan Erik Kongshaug (of ECM fame).
Guillaume de Chassy: Piano Solo
by Budd Kopman
Piano Solo, which took a long time to come to fruition, is a marvelous set that manages, in a mysterious way, to convey as much about pianist Guillaume de Chassy through his music as the wonderful interview does through words. The relationship between music and words is complex and writing or talking about ...
Andrea Centazzo: The Soul in the Mist
by Budd Kopman
The music from Soul in the Mist was taken from two live performances towards the end of 2006. Having heard most of this music performed at the Rubin Museum as part of its Harlem in the Himalayas program, I can say that the quality of the earlier performances and their recording was very high indeed. Andrea ...
David Binney / Edward Simon: Oceanos
by Budd Kopman
Saxophinist David Binney and pianist Edward Simon have been playing and recording together a long time. The wonderful, accessible, and deep Océanos reflects their close musical relationship. The duo consider this release to be a continuation of Afinidad (Red Records, 2001) in that the music displays the range of musical styles that each brings to the ...
Russ Lossing: All Things Arise
by Budd Kopman
Russ Lossing is a pianist of extreme depth and intensity whose music exists between jazz improvisation and modern classicism. All Things Arise will only cement this impression. His previous records include the marvelous Metal Rat (Clean Feed, 2006) with Mat Maneri and Mark Dresser, and the intense As It Grows (HatOLOGY, 2004) with Ed Schuller and ...
Christian Wallumrod: The Zoo Is Far
by Budd Kopman
With The Zoo Is Far, pianist/composer Christian Wallumrød increases his compositional control of the musical forces, now a sextet, at his disposal. This is music of the interior mind, which has an intensity fused to a melancholic beauty. It is mesmerizing, while existing at the boundary of composition and jazz. The quartet that ...
Eberhard Weber: Stages Of A Long Journey
by Budd Kopman
The one thing that America can learn from other countries is that art in general, and jazz in particular, is supported in many ways. Jazz is recognized as a vibrant art form and funded at governmental levels and through popular support. Stages Of A Long Journey is a wonderful example, the result of the city of ...
Frode Haltli: Passing Images
by Budd Kopman
Frode Haltli does not play accordion, but rather makes music with an instrument that we call an accordion. Using carefully chosen musicians, Haltli has created, with Passing Images, a highly intense, very concentrated work that is both disconcerting and beautiful--something to be slowly savored and pondered. Its fifty-one minutes are full of surprises ...
Pierre Favre: Fleuve
by Budd Kopman
With Fleuve, drummer and percussionist Pierre Favre demonstrates that not only is he a master of his instrument, but he also has complete command in the fields of composition and arrangement. The music dances (often literally), and is light, airy and transparent. Favre seems to go out of his way to choose instrumentation that works against ...
Nobu Stowe: Brooklyn and New York Moments
by Budd Kopman
"Free jazz" is actually a misnomer. Noise is free while music has some form of order imposed upon the sounds, which do not have to be strictly “musical" notes. Success in playing free jazz hinges upon the degree to which the players listen to each other and inter-react to form larger structures. In ...
