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Nicola Lancerotti Quartet: Skin
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il contrabbassista italiano, di base a Bruxelles, Nicola Lancerotti ha organizzato un quartetto, completato da Daniele Martini ai sax, Nelide Bandello alla batteria e Jordi Grognard al tenore, clarinetto e flauto, capace di muoversi con grande libertà formale ed espressiva all'interno degli undici brani del suo Skin, pubblicato dalla dEN Records. Si tratta di sole composizioni ...
Stefano Maltese Open Sound Ensemble: A World Apart
by AAJ Italy Staff
Malgrado la creazione di un'etichetta discografica ad hoc, Labirinti Sonori, che raccoglie l'eredità dell'omonima rassegna curata a cavallo fra anni Novanta e Duemila dalla coppia Stefano Maltese - Gioconda Cilio, rari rimangono i lavori prodotti dai due artisti siracusani (Maltese d'adozione) sempre pubblicati - di conseguenza - dopo adeguata gestazione. Ciò non può che riverberarsi positivamente, ...
Kenny Wheeler - Norma Winstone - London Vocal Project: Mirrors
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gli 83 anni da poco compiuti sembrano non pesare affatto sull'attività del trombettista anglo-canadese Kenny Wheeler, che continua a mantenere un ritmo realizzativo molto ricco sia quantitativamente che qualitativamente. La sua più recente fatica discografica è questo Mirrors, prima incisione assoluta di un suo vecchio progetto, risalente a una ventina di anni fa, opportunamente rivisto e ...
Nathan Haines: The Poet's Embrace
by Bruce Lindsay
The spiritual jazz path is not noted for being an easy option, but over the years it's proved to be one of the most rewarding choices, for both musician and listener. Much of the music on The Poet's Embrace suggests that tenor saxophonist Nathan Haines has traveled at least some way along that path in creating ...
Monty Alexander: Uplift 2: Higher
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This blazing CD is the official follow-up to the splendid Uplift, which in 2011 was one of the first releases from John Lee's fledgling label, Jazz Legacy Productions. Blending Alexander's past and present compadres--referred to here as “two timeless trios"--Higher features seven tracks with the peerless John Clayton on bass and Jeff Hamilton on drums, and ...
Dawes: Stories Don't End
by Doug Collette
Wrapped in funereal black graphics inside and out, the music of Dawes' third studio album radiates an ambivalence that undermines its ambition.Choosing to record Stories Don't End on the east coast and enlisting the production assistance of Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon, among others), Dawes has taken great pains to ...
Infinita: Time Continuum
by Anthony Shaw
The opening 30 seconds of “Wild," the appropriately named first track on this exploration of the Time Continuum, belies the melody and the meter of the music that follows. The album consists of 10 more pieces, mainly from the pen of pianist Sid Hille and more than ably assisted by this thoroughly seamless Italo-Finnish foursome.
Matteo Sabattini: Metamorpho
by Ian Patterson
Jazz can broadly be divided into that which mines the past for inspiration and that which doesn't. Alto saxophonist Matteo Sabattini demonstrated on Dawning (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2011)--his debut as leader for the Catalan label--that he's an unabashed modernist. Sabattini and his New York Quintet take an unhurried approach to these ten compositions where melodic ...
George Shearing: George Shearing at Home
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Sir George Shearing (1919--2011) was himself an integral part of the be bop jazz movement in the late 1940s. His quintet that featured vibraphone and guitar with the standard piano trio was sonically ground breaking. His precise and measured piano style influenced a generation of pianists and several of his compositions ("Lullaby of Birdland" and ...
Tunnel Six: Alive
by Dan McClenaghan
The formation of the American/Canadian sextet Tunnel Six wasn't planned. The six musicians met up at the 2009 International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada, and discovered rare group chemistry after having played together there. Since then the group has performed across Canada and the U.S., and cut two ...
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