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Improplayers: Improplayers
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un nome, un programma. Ma forse il programma non è proprio quello che ti aspetti. Perché i protagonisti di questa incisione abbandonano i territori dell'improvvisazione in senso canonico e codificato (sia essa legata allo storico free, alle avanguardie, all'impro radicale di stampo inglese e via discorrendo) per dedicarsi alla creazione estemporanea legata al metodo ideato e ...
Erb - Longberg-Holm - Roebke - Rosaly: Sack
by Glenn Astarita
Swiss saxophonist Christoph Erb aligns with prominent exponents of Chicago's nu-jazz, avant-garde scene for a highly expressionistic incursion, modeled with his breathy microtonal notes and free-form abstractions. Blotted by manifold sound-sculpting implementations, rolling rhythms and budding crash and burn stylizations, the musical characteristics radiate an extended reach where anything is possible.The band kicks off ...
Trio M: The Guest House
by AAJ Italy Staff
La formula è quella canonica del trio con piano-basso e batteria, ma la classe dei musicisti è tale e tanta da generare un avvincente flusso sonoro che fluttua liberamente. Già il brano iniziale è paradigmatico di una fluida ridefinizione del modello seguito, con sontuosi contrasti fra linee cantabili ed armonizzazioni scure e dissonanti. Qui basso e ...
Amit Friedman Sextet: Sunrise
by Dan McClenaghan
This seems to be shaping up as the year of the “Sunrise." Two outstanding sets by that name have been released in 2012: one by the Masabumi Kikuchi Trio on ECM Records, the other a self-produced gem by the Indo/American chamber ensemble, Karavika. Israeli saxophonist Amit Friedman makes it a triptych with his own Sunrise, on ...
Giorgio Gaslini: Incanti
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un lavoro esemplare per ispirazione, equilibrio e intensità lirica. Il quarto album in piano solo di Gaslini in trent'anni, è allo stesso tempo una conferma e una sorpresa: stavolta l'oggetto del suo interesse non sono grandi nomi del jazz (come era stato per Thelonious Monk, Albert Ayler e Sun Ra) ma brani di Monteverdi, Handel, Bartok, ...
Osvaldo Coluccino: Atto
by John Eyles
Osvaldo Coluccino is a self-confessed loner with an eclectic history as a musician, poet, and composer. As a composer, he has employed conventional acoustic instruments and/or electronics, the latter exemplified on Neuma Q (Die Schachtel, 2010). For Atto, recorded near Milan between February and May 2011, he took the role of sole creator-performer and opted to ...
Judi Silvano: Indigo Moods
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Judi Silvano celebrates 20 years of jazz recording with the release of Indigo Moods on the Jazzed Media label. After recording in a variety of formats, with and without husband and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, Silvano lands here with a collection of standards that features pianist Peter Tomlinson providing the harmonic guidance and trumpeter Fred ...
Steve Denny Trio: Life in the Basement
by Florence Wetzel
The basement is a rich metaphor, with all sorts of literary and emotional connotations. In pianist Steve Denny's case, it represents a place for gestation and growth, a lair in which to hunker down and do one's work. Denny was born and raised in Denver, studied music at Loyola University in Chicago where he graduated summa ...
Mockūno NuClear: Drop It
by John Sharpe
In its enterprising catalogue of modern day masters and loft jazz rarities, the Lithuanian No Business imprint also documents local musicians. Chief among them is one of the country's premier improvisers, saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas. Previous appearances on the label have placed him in a Peter Brotzmann-like trio on Live at 11:20 (2010) and in an impromptu ...
Kazhargan World: Wonderful Times
by Dan Bilawsky
Technology has irrevocably altered everything in its path; the way recordings are made is no exception. A century ago, a nine-person aggregation would have had to hover around a single recording device, playing together, in order for all the participants to make it onto the same record. Now, the members of a nonet don't even need ...
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