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Keith Pray: Confluence
by Dan Bilawsky
When most people discuss the jazz scene in New York, they're referring to the music that's made in Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs, but the Empire State stretches far beyond the city that never sleeps and jazz is made in many a locale within. The Capital region, for example, has its own burgeoning jazz scene that's ...
Bilbao Syndrome: I-V
by AAJ Italy Staff
Babel è un'etichetta, fondata nel 1994 da Oliver Weinding, che ha contribuito non poco a riportare interesse verso il jazz inglese grazie anche ad una sorta di joint venture con il prestigioso Vortex Jazz Club di Londra. Nel corso degli anni ha allargato il campo delle proprie pubblicazioni includendo artisti a cavallo tra jazz, pop e ...
Matthew Bourne: Montauk Variations
by AAJ Italy Staff
Montauk Variations è il terzo album in solo del pianista Matthew Bourne. Il primo in studio (dopo il debutto con “For John Zorn & Mike Osborne" del 2001 e “The Molde Concert" del 2007), registrato a Montauk, in cui il prolifico improvvisatore britannico si trova davvero solo con il suo piano. Operazione complessa per uno navigato ...
David Benoit: Conversation
by Jeff Winbush
If a touch of grey makes a man look distinguished, his full head of hair gone grey makes David Benoit positively aristocratic. The knock on Benoit is he makes music that is pleasant yet not memorable and, at times, is dismissed as being lightweight. It's time to reassess that somewhat harsh appraisal as time has been ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers
by AAJ Italy Staff
Igor Stravinskij affermava che il significato della musica è legato unicamente al rapporto tra gli elementi musicali, collocati in una costruzione senza alcun legame con altre realtà. Ciò è parzialmente valido nei confronti della musica composta a tavolino, studiata ed elaborata nei suoi dettagli squisitamente costruttivi. Ma la musica che in sé contiene elementi di improvvisazione, ...
Young Magic: Melt
by Nenad Georgievski
Young Magic is an ensemble with a global reach of reference. Its music wanders the territorial edges of music, scoping out where boundaries had been erected and looking beyond them. This open-form aesthetic has resulted in multifaceted type of music that is concurrently exploratory and involving. This trio was founded by Australian producer/singer ...
Bruce Kaphan Quartet: Bruce Kaphan Quartet
by C. Michael Bailey
The pedal steel guitar is so closely associated with American country and western music that its image can scarcely escape that infinite gravity of categorization. Even when it has wobbled its way into jazz, the instrument has always operated beneath the label of “Western Swing" or “Alternative Country." Several notable players have distinguished themselves in the ...
Marzio Scholten: Voids, Echoes and Whispers
by John Kelman
For his third release, Marzio Scholten capitalizes on the unexpectedly impressive sophomore effort, World of Thought (OAP, 2010)--a sleeper hit from a then-up and coming guitarist who continues on an upward trajectory--by focusing on chemistry and consistency. Only drummer Bob Roos is gone, replaced by Mark Schilders, while World of Thought guest saxophonist Yaniv Nachum is ...
Orrin Evans: Flip The Script
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Orrin Evans' last three outings for the Posi-Tone label have been vastly different from one another. He forged new, edgy frontiers as part of the collectively formulated Tarbaby on The End Of Fear (Posi-Tone, 2010), put his own unique stamp on the big band format with the bold Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone, 2011), and ...
Brian Patneaude: All Around Us
by David A. Orthmann
A lot of the good things about All Around Us start from the bottom and work their way up. Saxophonist Brian Patneaude's compositions are a sturdy, coherent lot; they're also rife with odd time signatures, changing tempos, and an amalgam of Latin, funk, and jazz elements. The tunes are a virtual playground for bassist Mike Delprete ...
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