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John Edwards / Okkyung Lee: White Cable, Black Wires
by John Eyles
After its impressive debut, it is gratifying to report that the Fataka label seems set to continue in similar vein. Recorded by Sebastian Lexer in May 2011, White Cable, Black Wires follows the pattern of the first two Fataka releases, featuring a small, intimate setting involving a key London improviser-- this time, bassist John Edwards paired ...
Hristo Vitchev Quartet: Familiar Fields
by Nicholas F. Mondello
There's a poignant scene in the film Gladiator (DreamWorks/Universal, 2000), where the film's hero, Maximus--played by actor and guitarist, Russell Crowe--flashes back on the lush fields of his far away farm home. There's a longing, a yearning sense in that memorable, moving sequence. Those fields pull at his heart.With Familiar Fields, his fifth CD ...
Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d city
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar's hit album good kid, m.A.A.d city is subtitled “a short film." Lamar's ambition mirrors that of saxophonist Bob Belden, who derided the narrow conceptual vision of too many musicians in a recent All About Jazz interview, saying: “Modeling music along the lines of film narrative ... should be a logical evolution of ...
Heather Masse & Dick Hyman: Lock My Heart
by Dan Bilawsky
In a way, vocalist Heather Masse has come full circle with the release of Lock My Heart. As a youngster, Masse used Dick Hyman's Professional Chord Changes and Substitutions for 100 Tunes Every Musician Should Know (Warner Bros., 1986) as a vocal road map through the world of jazz standards; little did she know she'd be ...
Luis Munoz: Luz
by Hrayr Attarian
Luis Muňoz's Luz is an unabashedly romantic paean to Latin music in its various guises. There is, however, nothing syrupy in this enchanting seventh release for the Costa Rican composer and percussionist, replete with “jazzy" creative spontaneity. Muňoz's impressionistic compositions are carefully arranged around a central theme, allowing adequate space to spotlight individual ...
Jonas Holgersson: 4003
by Chris Mosey
Four young Swedish musicians and one expat Englishman attempt to reverently recreate hard bop from the 1950s and '60s. The title, 4003, was the catalogue number for Art Blakey's Moanin' (Blue Note, 1958). The album features 12 numbers, most of them considered classics, by the likes of saxophonists Hank Mobley and Clifford Jordan, guitarist Grant Green, ...
Teresa Salgueiro: O Misterio
by AAJ Italy Staff
Teresa Salgueiro, voce indimenticabile dei Madredeus, paladini della nuova musica portoghese, ci colpisce nel fondo del cuore e dell'anima con questo splendido O Misterio, registrato al culmine di una profonda esperienza mistica spesa trascorrendo con il suo nuovo gruppo una sorta di ritiro spirituale nel Convento di Arrabida di Setubal, a sud di Lisbona. Un convento ...
Bruce Barth: Three Things of Beauty
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo le incisioni di debutto da leader in quintetto, e quelle successive in trio, Three Things of Beauty vede Bruce Barth in quartetto con Steve Nelson al vibrafono, Ben Street al contrabbasso e Dana Hall alla batteria. Una line-up che potrebbe fare ricordare il famoso Modern Jazz Quartet, ma è ovvio che qui siamo su ben ...
Erika Dagnino - George Haslam - Stefano Pastor - Steve Waterman: Narcéte
by AAJ Italy Staff
Erika Dagnino è una poetessa e performer genovese che insieme a Stefano Pastor conduce una ricerca in ambito musicale che fonde, in un'unica anima creativa, poesia e jazz, parole e note, in quello che si potrebbe definire come un cammino d'introspezione tra suono, silenzio e significati interpretabili. In Narcéte sono affiancati dai musicisti inglesi Steve Waterman ...
Lajos Dudas Trio: Live at Porgy & Bess
by C. Michael Bailey
Hungarian-German clarinetist Lajos Dudas has quite the résumé in Europe, with about 50 recordings to his credit. He has been around long enough to have had clarinetist Artie Shaw remark on his talent, but do not mistake his longevity with a marriage to the traditional mainstream of jazz; it is anything but. Dudas has adventurous spirit ...
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