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Norma Winstone: Descansado - Songs For Films
by John Ephland
Norma Winstone has had her current trio since 2001, long enough to have released five albums (four for ECM). Descansado, a celebration of cinema through the language of music, is that fourth CD, and it's a winner from start to finish. The album's title derives from a Armando Trovajoli composition, used in Italian director Vittorio De ...
Bohemian Trio: Okònkolo
by Neri Pollastri
Raffinata formazione in equilibrio tra camerismo e jazz, musica cubana ed europea, questo trio nasce per iniziativa del pianista Orlando Alonso e del sassofonista Yosvany Terry, entrambi cubani diplomati al conservatorio e con studi alla Juilliard, quando nel 2012 sentono l'esigenza di mettere a punto un progetto che fosse la sintesi dei molti stimoli e interessi ...
Kira Kira: Bright Force
by Dan McClenaghan
The label “music" may be too confining for these sounds. Let us call it an ear-opening sonic experience. That's what pianist Satoko Fujii, with her new group, Kira Kira, has created with a compelling recording called Bright Force. In the year 2018, every review of Fujii's output will include a prelude describing her decision ...
Daniel Santiago & Pedro Martins: Simbiose
by Dan Bilawsky
Symbiosis, referring to a mutually advantageous connection between two parties, is most certainly the proper word to sum up this duo date. Back in the summer of 2015, Brazilian guitarists Daniel Santiago and Pedro Martins took to the quiet confines of a studio in São Paulo and spun out these nine organic beauties. To hear their ...
Bill Warfield: For Lew
by Jack Bowers
The “Lew" referred to on Renaissance man Bill Warfield's latest big-band album, For Lew, is the late trumpeter Lew Soloff, whom Warfield remembers in the liner notes as “my mentor, colleague, friend and inspiration." The inspiration arrived when the teen-age Warfield, who had switched from trumpet to piano after losing his front teeth in an auto ...
Peter Kuhn Trio: Intention
by John Sharpe
Reedman Peter Kuhn's re-emergence on disc after a 35-year hiatus was one of the more heartening stories of 2016. Kuhn figured on the New York loft jazz scene during the latter half of the 1970s, releasing three LPs under his own leadership, notably Livin' Right, reissued to much acclaim as part of No Coming, No Going ...
Dino RUBINO: Where Is the Happines?
by Luigi Sforza
In continuità con il precedente disco Kairos del 2014, Where Is the Happines? riprende alcune tematiche care al pianista e trombettista catanese Dino Rubino: cantabilità delle linee melodiche, efficaci e disimpegnati impasti armonici, accattivanti e stilizzate pulsazioni dal mood R&B ("Wind" e “Souvenirs"), vellutati intrecci timbrici tra fiati (sassofono tenore, corno francese e clarinetto basso), leggerezza ...
Satoko Fujii: Atody Man
by Neri Pollastri
Secondo album (dopo lo splendido Solo) dei dodici previsti quest'anno da Satoko Fujii per celebrare il sessantesimo compleanno (clicca qui per leggere la sua intervista), questo Atody Man vede la pianista alla testa del suo quartetto Kaze nel quale oltre la tromba del compagno Natsuki Tamura troviamo i francesi Chistian Pruvost, anch'egli alla tromba, e Peter ...
Azar Lawrence: Elementals
by Chris May
Azar Lawrence sounds more like John Coltrane than John Coltrane ever did. Well, almost. Mid-period Coltrane that is, post Atlantic Records and the sheets of sound, when Coltrane starting to record for Impulse with producer Bob Thiele. The closeness of the resemblance is longstanding and uncanny, but it has not been a cynical pose designed to ...
John Proulx: Say It
by Dan Bilawsky
This fourth date from John Proulx clearly marks a new chapter in his career. After delivering three albums on the now-defunct MAXJAZZ imprint, and after a hiatus from recording under his own name, this triple-threat vocalist-pianist-composer returns with his first independently-produced offering. The music spotlights a man who's grown more comfortable in his skin and lived ...
