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Macromicrocosmi: Experimenti in Rome
by AAJ Italy Staff
In meno di mezz'ora i due membri di Macromicrocosmi - Piertomas Dell'Erba e Simone Porcelli - alle prese con pianoforte, sax tenore e suoni sintetici, ci mostrano diversi modi con cui creare paesaggi jazzistici in bilico fra musica acustica ed elettronica contemporanea. Una visita su My Space ci permette di trovare i loro (importanti) amici virtuali: ...
Matthew Shipp Trio: Elastic Aspects
by John Sharpe
Even with a discography amassing over 40 releases under his own name, pianist Matthew Shipp continues to justify the plaudits. Sometimes it can be hard to find new things to say about artists who have been active over such a lengthy period, but Shipp keeps ringing the changes to provide talking points. Unlike the stellar live ...
S/S Motsol: Parallel Pleasures
by Eyal Hareuveni
Experimental Norwegian duo Motsol-- vocalist Stine Janvin Motland and drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg-- is a versatile unit. Last year the pair joined forces with reed player Frode Gjerstad and Chicago-based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm on VCDC (Hipsid, 2011), and with Parallel Pleasures expand into an octet, comprised from some of the more forward-thinking musicians from the Oslo ...
The Wee Trio: Ashes To Ashes - A David Bowie Intraspective
by Glenn Astarita
Vibraphonist James Westfall participated with several New Orleans-based musicians to cover the music of pop icon David Bowie and took the concept further by using this premise for The Wee Trio's third album. The band projects youthful vigor along the lines of The Bad Plus and Medeski, Martin & Wood; firmly rooted in the jazz vernacular, ...
Meredith d'Ambrosio: By Myself
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The deliciously husky contralto of Meredith d'Ambrosio is unlike any other today, but that's obvious. What is not immediately evident is the effect it has, the body's temperature rising slowly--not after listening to a few charts on By Myself, for that would take too long; but after hearing but a few short choruses. By the time ...
Meeco: Beauty of the Night
by Edward Blanco
Paris-based composer/producer Michael Christian Maier, alias Meeco, has never truly delivered a standard jazz album, preferring instead to craft musical projects that are creative, innovative and different from the rest, described as “neither classical nor jazz" (Jaques Morelenbaum). A follow-up to Perfume e Caricias (Connector, 2010), Beauty of the Night is Meeco's third disc and his ...
Matthew Shipp: Elastic Aspects
by William Carey
There is a moment fairly early on in pianist Matthew Shipp's Elastic Aspects, when the solo piano that has been hypnotizing for several minutes ends and is replaced by a rather angry and anxious sounding bass, bowed fervently by trio mate Michael Bisio. It is startling, and is soon replaced by the feathery light drumming of ...
The October Trio: New Dream
by Glenn Astarita
In recent times, Vancouver, Canada has produced a hotbed of jazz-centric talent, outlined by an improvisational superstructure of sorts. On New Dream, The October Trio conveys a resourceful melding of various musical inflections amid a great degree of flexibility and moxie, featuring a wily sequence of events where each member plays a significant role.
Erik Charlston JazzBrasil: Essentially Hermeto
by Raul d'Gama Rose
No musical expedition to Brazil can be complete without a reverent doffing of the proverbial hat as the traveling musicians make an essential stop at Barrio Jabour, the place where the great Hermeto Pascoal lives. This is what vibraphonist and marimba artist Erik Charlston did. Fortuitously, he captured the resident and hovering spirits in the splendid ...
New World Beat: After Carnival
by Edward Blanco
The music of Brazil, a slice of the smooth style, a heavy dose of world rhythms and a pinch of jazz fusion provide the ingredients for the exotic and refreshing new sound captured on After Carnival, the brilliant debut from the Miami-based New World Beat. Led by vibraphonist Richard Sprince, a veteran of world music and ...
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