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Michael Stephans / Spatial Edition: Open Spaces
by Chuck Koton
Michael Stephans--educator and published author of prose and poetry--also happens to be a master jazz drummer and percussionist. The Miami-born Stephans, who these days lives in the surprisingly jazz-heavy Pennsylvania Poconos, has performed with world renowned horn players like Pharoah Sanders, Dave Liebman and Bennie Maupin, as well as Grammy-winning pianist, Alan Broadbent, among others. On ...
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Live
by John Kelman
Change can be good, though there's often a sense of loss when a significant adjustment happens. Honing his very specific Ritual Groove/Zen Funk music for more than a decade, Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch was hit with a particularly big change when Ronin's founding bassist, Bjørn Meyer, left in 2011 to pursue personal projects. The more recent ...
Jacob Garchik: The Heavens (The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album)
by Mark F. Turner
Brooklyn-based Jacob Garchik's The Heavens (The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album) recalls the prose of author James Weldon Johnson's famous 1927 book of poetry, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. where Garchik's stunning trombone work is likened to the poem's protagonist: a charismatic preacher with the ability to deliver awestruck messages. Garchik's trombone is the messenger, ...
Matteo Muntoni: Nobody in K Space
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nobody in K Space è un viaggio nella geografia sonora di “2001: A Space Odyssey" che ripropone in tre parti, rispettivamente dedicate alle varie tappe del viaggio (Earth, Moon, Jupiter), sequenze importanti del capolavoro di Kubrick in una dimensione altra. Il progetto, a cura del compositore e contrabbassista Matteo Muntoni, è ambizioso anche sul piano musicale, ...
Graham Dechter: Takin' It There
by Dan Bilawsky
A quartet is usually a self-contained collection of four, but sometimes these groupings serve as part of a greater whole; guitarist Graham Dechter's foursome does both. Dechter, drummer Jeff Hamilton, bassist John Clayton and pianist Tamir Hendelman serve as the rhythmic power source for the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra but they can also stand on their own ...
Gabriel Vicéns: Point in Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
Point In Time, il disco d'esordio di Gabriel Vicéns, ci permette di conoscere un chitarrista preparato e dalla pronunciata cifra espressiva. Quello del portoricano è un timbro caldo e avvolgente, che si rifà ai capiscuola dello strumento, anche se nella dozzina di tracce proposte in scaletta ad emergere è una personalità forte e delineata. In scaletta ...
Trish Clowes: And in the Night-Time She Is There
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo l'interessante debutto di Tangent la giovane sassofonista londinese Trish Clowes fa un ulteriore balzo in avanti verso i territori di confine tra il jazz e la musica classica contemporanea. Così in And in the Night-Times She Is There - titolo tratto da “The Sphinx," poesia di Oscar Wilde qui in un'interessante versione vocale di Kathleen ...
TOC: You Can Dance (If You Want)
by Eyal Hareuveni
The French trio TOC--part of the musicians collective Muzzix in Lille, breaks all the rules and musical barriers on this, its second release, same as it did on its debut, Le Gorille (Circum Disc, 2009). These three skilled improvisers move freely between contemporary music, experimental pop, art and psychedelic rock, noise and fiery jazz with reckless ...
Platform 1: Takes Off
by Glenn Astarita
The debut recording by Platform 1 comprises a multinational cast of progressive jazz musicians who easily knock it out of the park with blazing free-bop motifs, introspective sojourns, shuffling jazz-boogie vamps and celebratory interactions. Add the often feverish solo spots and tumultuous climaxes into the mix to round out a divergent program, culminating in a highly ...
Pommelhorse: Pommelhorse
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pommelhorse è il nome che questo quintetto svizzero ha deciso di darsi, forse in ricordo degli esercizi di ginnastica al cavallo con maniglie che evidentemente faticavano a digerire a scuola. Il suono è austero ma non troppo scuro, anche grazie al piano elettrico di Olivier Zurkirchen, sempre pronto a tessere le trame sulle quali i clarinetti ...
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