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Sommer / Yannatou / Floridis / Voulgaris / Kastanis: Songs for Kommeno
by John Eyles
Songs for Kommeno was recorded between March 2011 and April 2012, as a homage to the village of Kommeno on the west coast of Greece. In 1943, soldiers of the German Wehrmacht massacred 317 of Kommeno's civilian inhabitants and torched the village. A 156-page book accompanies the CD, containing first-person accounts detailing the experiences of a ...
Chris Flaherty Big Band: Turning Point
by Bruce Lindsay
The city of Leeds, in the northern county of West Yorkshire, has developed a reputation in recent years as one of the UK's hotbeds of contemporary jazz and improvised music. But Yorkshire jazz isn't just about being cutting edge or pushing envelopes: there's also a strong affinity with the music's history and traditions; an affinity that ...
Cappelletti, Massaria & Maneri Trio: The Edge of Becoming
by AAJ Italy Staff
Arrigo Cappelletti, Andrea Massaria e Mat Maneri si erano già incontrati in occasione della registrazione dell'album Metamorphosis, prodotto dalla Leo Records. In quella occasione era coinvolto anche il batterista Nicola Stranieri. In forma di trio, quindi senza batteria, sono stati invitati all'Iseo Jazz Festival 2011 e la loro performance viene ora pubblicata dalla No Flight Records ...
Maikotron Unit: Effugit
by Jerry D'Souza
The maïkotron, invented by multi-instrumentalist Michel Côté, is a woodwind instrument played with the reed and mouthpiece of a saxophone and is made up of trumpet valves, the bell of a cornet and parts of a clarinet and euphonium. The unusual makeup is not only an indicator of Côté's resourcefulness, but of the trio itself, which ...
Negroni's Trio: On The Way
by Edward Blanco
With its seventh album titled On The Way, Grammy-nominated Negroni's Trio celebrates its ten year anniversary with a live recording of eight originals and two well-known standards, with a little help from saxophonist great Ed Calle and violinist Federico Britos. The father and son team of pianist Jose and drummer Nomar Negroni, has been performing together ...
Tom Harrell: Number Five
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non ci sono dubbi sul fatto che Tom Harrell sia il miglior trombettista e uno dei massimi compositori dell'attuale modern mainstream. Come ci ricorda il titolo siamo al quinto capitolo del quintetto che debuttò nel 2006 con Light On e che ha lasciato momenti memorabili in tutti i successivi lavori (Prana Dance, Roman Nights, The Time ...
Glawdys N’Dee: Lyannaj
by Hrayr Attarian
The term “world music" takes a new meaning with singer Glawdys N'Dee's debut, Lyannaj, which means to connect or unite in solidarity--and unite, she does. The Guadeloupean-born, Parisian-educated and Chicago-based N'Dee brings together, in three languages--Creole, French and English--various musical styles of the African Diaspora, from Caribbean rhythms to jazz, and from gospel to the blues. ...
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet: Stellar Pulsations
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il fatto che una volta ogni cinque anni ci si ritrovi da recensire un disco come questo è piacere sostanziale. Non solo perché Stellar Pulsations è uno dei classici “dischi dell'anno" ma perché, una volta tanto, tu recensore ti trovi davanti al fatto che devi scrivere e parlare di uno dei più grandi musicisti viventi. In ...
Scott McLemore: Remote Location
by Jakob Baekgaard
A change of scenery is a change of sound. At least, this seems to be case with the Virginia-born drummer Scott McLemore, who has been a vital presence on the music scene in New York, but now is part of the significantly smaller, but nevertheless bourgeoning Icelandic jazz community.When McLemore released Found Music on ...
Cecil Taylor: FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY!
by John Kelman
83 years old and approaching ninety releases as a leader, pianist Cecil Taylor's place in the history of jazz may already rest assured, but he's more cited than seen these days. He may not come up as a primary influence as often as usual suspects Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner or Herbie Hancock, but in ...
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