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Hedvig Mollestad Trio: All of Them Witches
by John Kelman
It may well be sexist to suggest that there are few female heavy rock guitarists. Still, as society moves towards greater equity among the genders, there are thankfully a lot more talented and intrepid women transcending conventional expectations of their “place" in music--and few countries exemplifying this more than Norway. Sidsel Endresen may be a singer, ...
Steve Heckman: Born to be Blue
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The Great American Standard is a nourishing Mother. No matter how far away one might stray, or who has mined there before, the Canon always welcomes further improvisatory exploration. The challenge, of course, is for the artist to honor the source appropriately.With Born to Be BlueBay Area saxophonist, Steve Heckman takes us on yet ...
¡haUtUllin!: ¡haUtUllin!
by Eyal Hareuveni
{¡haUtUllin!}} is a new Scandinavian duo-- Norwegian drummer Håkon Berre, residing in Copenhagen, and Finnish guitarist Markus Pesonen-- that aim to break away from the prevailing musical genres and common understanding of their instruments roles and usage. The duo is gifted with reckless energy, imaginary vocabulary and a rebellious, eccentric spirit. The live improvisations embrace all, ...
Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece: Top Shelf
by Dan Bilawsky
The team of tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser and vibraphonist Behn Gillece has been steadily releasing music of a similar nature on the Posi-Tone label since its 2009 debut, Full View, hit the shelves. With this, the duo's fourth album, Fowser and Gillece continue along the same path with nary a stylistic sharp turn, yet this one ...
Nicholl and Farquharson: Della by Moonlight
by C. Michael Bailey
Keyboardist Matthew Nicholl and bassist Michael Farquharson assemble an adult contemporary jazz suite on Della by Moonlight. To be clear, this is not smooth jazz, and while smooth jazz has its charms--accessibility and listening ease being two of them--Nicholl and Farquharson's music requires a little more than just passive listening. The additional attention is more than ...
Miss Sophie Lee: Love Street Lullaby
by James Nadal
If there is one constant element in New Orleans music, it is tradition. Though there are many styles and genres to be discovered and enjoyed within this vibrant and energetic city, there is a defining acoustic syncopated sound which is most identified and associated with New Orleans. Vocalist Miss Sophie Lee with Love Street Lullaby has ...
Confusion Bleue: East Side Banquet
by Glenn Astarita
Luminously recorded at East Side Studio in New York City, the superfine Confusion Bleue band reemerges with a sterling exposition, centered upon its democratic, but largely cohesive free-form manifesto. The musicians present a resonating group-centric sound, aided by Lee Pembleton's exquisite audio-engineering via a consortium of gusty improvisations and swirling breakouts. With rapidly-moving pulses, keyboardist Nobu ...
Markus Stockhausen: Markus Stockhausen and The Metropole Orkest
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per una bizzarra serie di coincidenze e contrasti questo disco da un lato vede il creatore della “Intuitive Music," Markus Stockhausen, incidare per l'etichetta “Intuition" ma, dall'altro lato, mentre il nome della label tedesca rappresenta un evidente omaggio all'omonimo brano di Lennie Tristano, uno dei primi esempi di libera improvvisazione nel jazz, nel disco di Stockhausen, ...
Pollock Project: Quixote
by AAJ Italy Staff
È firmato dalla pittrice Antonia Carmi l'acquerello della copertina di Quixote, il secondo album del trio Pollock Project. Le dieci tracce in programma, fatta eccezione per “After the Rain" di John Coltrane e “Angels and Demons at Play" di Sun Ra, sono composte da Marco Testoni e Nicola Alesini, i quali restituiscono alle coordinate di questo ...
Tom Dempsey - Tim Ferguson Quartet: Beautiful Friendship
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tom Dempsey e Tim Ferguson sono esponenti del mainstream da anni attivi a New York dove suonano, incidono, insegnano (Ferguson ha scritto due manuali sul contrabbasso), e lavorano come sidemen in altri gruppi o in studio. Tutto quello, insomma, che fanno i musicisti professionisti, quando hanno la possibilità di farlo. Il loro nuovo quartetto è arricchito ...
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