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Andrew Rathbun / George Colligan: Renderings: The Art of the Duo
by Budd Kopman
Renderings could be the perfect album for the jazz lover who thinks he doesn't like classical music, or vice versa. The recording is extremely beautiful for many reasons, in no small part because of the classical music chosen on which to improvise, as well as the leaders' own classically inspired compositions. From the ...
Alexandre Cunha: Batepapo
by Budd Kopman
Brazilian music must be among the happiest in the world, as its rhythms sway in the soft breeze of Rio. Of course, it's more than just bossa nova or party music, and Batepapo is a virtual primer in its many different rhythms and melodic styles. Alexandre Cunha, an endlessly inventive master drummer, drives this music with ...
Iro Haarla: Northbound
by Budd Kopman
Beauty can mean many different things, but in my view of music, the concept centers around euphony, construction and the listener's emotional response. Consonant intervals, melodic lines that have internal logic, chord progressions that create and release tension, and timbres that blend together all work toward the beautiful. Add to this the mental imagery that some ...
Samo Salamon: Two Hours
by Budd Kopman
It matters not that this recording took but two hours to record after very little rehearsal. Samo Salamon was ready with his music, and his compatriots, three well-traveled musicians with fast musical reflexes and good instincts, actually thrived when thrown into this situation. It is hard to predict whether better music will be ...
Anouar Brahem: Le Voyage de Sahar
by Budd Kopman
Tunisian oudist Anouar Brahem has recorded for ECM since 1990; Le Pas du Chat Noir (2002) achieved the most critical acclaim. The trio which made that record comes together again for Le Voyage de Sahar, creating an understated tour de force that builds on the former album. While the “ECM sound" very much helps create the ...
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by Budd Kopman
The best jazz is always at least a bit subversive--it does the unexpected, perhaps even setting the listener up for something, only to slap him about it later. Jazz can be the epitome of unpredictability and subversion when musicians play around the melody or forego it altogether, when they fracture the harmony and stretch it to ...
Patrick Boyle: Hold Out
by Budd Kopman
Patrick Boyle likes to think about music as well as play it. The versatile multi-instrumentalist plays not only trumpet and flugelhorn, but also guitar, dobro, electric bass, ukele and harmonica. On Hold Out, however, he sticks to the brass. He also composed most of the tunes, except Thelonious Monk's “Nutty" and a pop tune, “Always On ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Stoa
by Budd Kopman
What is this music? What genre does it inhabit? What label best suits it? Nik Bärtsch himself calls it Zen-funk, and it easily could fit the trance label, but only at times. Reichian or Glassian minimalism springs to mind, but again only at times. Calling it progressive rock would be a gigantic stretch. Is it jazz, ...
Sofia Koutsovitis: Ojala
by Budd Kopman
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sofia Koutsovitis now resides in New York City, but she brings her entire Argentinian, Brazilian and Peruvian musical background to this recording. She mixes and elegantly fuses these influences with a jazz aesthetic on Ojala, a unique, very attractive and extremely seductive recording. Many of the rhythms are ...
Ken Hatfield: String Theory
by Budd Kopman
Ken Hatfield is an extremely complex and multifaceted individual, a philosopher-king, a musically omnivorous hillbilly--and yes, his last name comes from those Hatfields. The music on String Theory fully displays where Hatfield has been in his chronological and musical life. He emphatically refuses to be pinned down by any label, even an amorphous one like “jazz." ...
