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Anthony Braxton: Sax Quintet (New York) 1998
by John Sharpe
Saxophone agglomerations are not without precedent in reedman/composer Anthony Braxton's copious playbook. Indeed, his “Composition 37" for four saxophones on New York, Fall 1974 (Arista, 1975) could be said to have launched the genre, bringing together as it did three of the founder members of the pioneering World Saxophone Quartet two years before their eventual formation. ...
Kayle Brecher: Spirals And Lines
by Hrayr Attarian
Kaylé Brecher's 2012 Spirals and Lines is a brass-rich, dramatic exploration of the vocalist, arranger and composer's various influences, with an understated yet solid political and social leitmotif.A delightfully original trio interprets singer/songwriter Bob Dylan's “Paths of Victory" as a New Orleans-style marche. Propelled by drummer Erik Johnson's precise and rumbling beats, Brecher delivers ...
Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol.1
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The successful combination of two chordal instruments--like vibes and piano--requires giant ears and mutual respect in order to avoid melodic pile-ups and harmonic collisions. On this CD, vibraphonist and composer Joe Locke and pianist Ryan Cohan provide a textbook example of how this is done. They are happily aided and abetted by bassist and co-producer David ...
Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystal: Aquarius
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dei tanti progetti della flautista Nicole Mitchell - oggi tornata in quella California in cui è cresciuta, ma sempre legata a doppio filo con la scena di Chicago - il quartetto Ice Crystal mi sembra tra quelli più immediati e stimolanti. La formazione, specialmente per l'abbinamento di flauto e vibrafono, non può che evocare riferimenti precisi, ...
Arvo Pärt: Adam's Lament
by AAJ Italy Staff
Continua la stretta associazione tra il compositore estone Arvo Pärt e l'etichetta tedesca ECM, che a partire dal 1984, anno della pubblicazione del suo Tabula Rasa, gli ha dato una notorietà internazionale tale da renderlo uno dei musicisti contemporanei più presenti nei cataloghi discografici e nei programmi delle più importanti stagioni concertistiche mondiali. Come consuetudine, la ...
Antonio Zambrini Trio: Antonio Zambrini Plays Nino Rota
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra i possibili approcci alla musica di Nino Rota, il pianista Antonio Zambrini non poteva che scegliere quello ben espresso nel CD in questione. Ossia un lavoro intimo, delicato, introspettivo, nel quale le melodie, che giocano un ruolo assai importante nella storia musicale del pianista milanese, vengono accarezzate, circuite, rivelate in tutte le loro possibili sfumature ...
Will Scruggs Jazz Fellowship: Song of Simeon
by AAJ Italy Staff
"Aiuto, un disco di Natale!". Questo più o meno è stato il pensiero di chi scrive, all'apertura della confezione che conteneva l'oggetto di questa recensione. Ma il sassofonista di Atlanta Will Scruggs, con i suoi Jazz Fellowship, è riuscito nell'ardua impresa: far risultare meno indigesto il repertorio natalizio. Perché uno, da un disco che ha per ...
AVC: Busk
by Karl Ackermann
The UK label Babel has been nurturing unique talent for the better part of twenty years, judiciously releasing only about a half-dozen albums in a given year. Many of their artists play on the fringes of jazz and some go way beyond the pale. AVC are hardly outliers but neither is the quintet a predictable, formulaic ...
Bob Dorough: Duets
by C. Michael Bailey
Is vocalist/pianist/composer Bob Dorough the Mose Allison of Cherry Hill, Arkansas or is Mose Allison the Bob Dorough of Tippo, Mississippi? The two are famously linked by geographic origin: the country South, time period: '50s to the present, and vocation: singing, songwriting jazzmen. The two also share timeless voices, full of Southern dry dust and humus. ...
Michel Camilo: What's Up
by Larry Taylor
Jazz piano virtuoso Michel Camilo is known for his bombastic technique. For example, after a set at the Monterey Jazz Festival a couple of years ago, I stuck around and talked to the piano-tuner hired to rejuvenate the strings. He stood shaking his head in dismay after Camilo's hard driving workout, which had been a crowd-pleaser. ...
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