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Philippe Duchemin Trio: Swing & Strings
by Patricia Myers
French pianist Philippe Duchemin's entry into the jazz-with-strings repertoire merges his classical roots with a love of modern jazz, blues and soul. His dual talents of composing and playing make this a strongly swinging album, with the string quartet adding a lovely luster.Duchemin's crisp keyboard progressions contrast with the soaring and sizzling strings of ...
Tom Kennedy: Just Play!
by Edward Blanco
An accomplished musician known for his prowess on electric bass, Tom Kennedy fronts a nine-piece ensemble of top-notch players delivering engaging new interpretations of well-known jazz standards on Just Play!, his fourth album as leader. While much of his experience performing progressive and mainstream jazz has been on the electric bass, Kennedy's first experience began on ...
The Ronnie Scott Quintet Featuring Alan Skidmore: The Ronnie Scott Quintet Featuring Alan Skidmore
by Bruce Lindsay
According to Philip Larkin, poet and jazz fan, sexual intercourse began in 1963 “Between the end of the 'Chatterley' ban and the Beatles' first LP." Many other commentators suggest that the British jazz scene died at about the same time, steamrollered out of the way by the emerging behemoth that was the British Beat Boom. It ...
Rotem Sivan: Enchanted Sun
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Rotem Sivan, who made the move from his native Israel to New York City in 2008, chose the trio format for his debut, Enchanted Sun. Working with just bass and drums accompanying--whether the “lead" is a piano, a horn or a guitar---is one of the most intimate ways to make music; since pianist Bill Evans' ...
Henri Roger: Exsurgences (Solo Piano Improvisations)
by Eyal Hareuveni
Self-taught French pianist Henri Roger's set of solo piano free improvisations is spread across a DVD directed by video artist Anne Pesce, and also on vinyl. These nine improvisations, all numbered as “Exurgences 1" to “9," have a similar dense and restless character. Roger explores the sonic possibilities of piano keyboard, stressing the ...
Asaf Sirkis Trio: Shepherd's Stories
by Ian Patterson
Maybe it's the unfashionably hot weather that's hit the UK in recent summers, but there's something almost cheery about drummer Asaf Sirkis' Shepherd Stories. Sirkis' church organ/guitar based Inner Noise recordings wove a jazz-gothic tale, while The Monk (SAM Productions, 2008)--with guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos and bassist Yaron Stavi--balanced tantalizingly between pretty melancholy and a slightly dark ...
Endangered Blood: Work Your Magic
by Troy Collins
Work Your Magic is the sophomore follow-up to Endangered Blood's self-titled 2011 Skirl Records debut. The acoustic quartet features an all-star lineup, with Human Feel's Chris Speed and Jim Black joined by fellow Skirl label mates Oscar Noriega and Trevor Dunn. First named The Benefit Band, the group was initially formed in 2008 to help Human ...
Alban Darche: L’OrphiCube
by Eyal Hareuveni
French composer and saxophonist Alban Darche, leader of the big band Le Gros Cube and former member of the l'Orchestre National de Jazz, has worked before in many multidisciplinary formats, among them with choreographer and dancer Nasser Martin- Gusset, director Sylvain Maurice and writer Peter Curling. L'OrphiCube, named after the cubist art movement and a poem ...
Brian Groder - Tonino Miano: FluiDensity
by AAJ Italy Staff
Densità fluida. L'ossimoro con cui si definisce la musica del duo riflette bene il lavoro di Brian Groder e Tonino Miano. Un po' meno si trova corrispondenza tra ciò che il disco racchiude e la sua copertina, il cui tono sentimental-romantico porta decisamente fuori strada. Per avvicinarci al carattere del disco, proporremmo il binomio fluidità/esattezza: elementi ...
Keith Jarrett – Gary Peacock – Jack DeJohnette: Somewhere
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si ha un bel dire che lo Standards Trio (che fra l'altro festeggia quest'anno il trentennale) suona sempre la stessa musica. Nella sostanza il rilievo è anche esatto, ma a quali livelli? È un po' come Garrincha (che non pochi brasiliani antepongono persino a Pelé), il quale faceva sempre la stessa finta, ma ogni volta dribblava ...
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