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Motian Sickness: For the Love of Sarah
by AAJ Italy Staff
All'inizio del 2011 lo String Choir di Joel Harrison aveva pubblicato un suggestivo album sulle composizioni di Paul Motian (intitolato Music of Paul Motian, appunto) legando i suoni (elettrici e non) della chitarra sua e di Liberty Ellman, a quelli di un eterodosso quartetto d'archi comprendente anche Dana Leong al violoncello e Mat Maneri alla viola. ...
Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes
by Jerry D'Souza
Saxophonist Matt Steckler is a man of many parts. As a musician he has led his own bands including the imaginatively titled Dead Cat Bounce and has played with some of the finest including saxophonists Anthony Braxton and Lee Konitz, and percussionist Bobby Sanabria. His varied associations and wide comfort zone are manifested in the array ...
Frank Herzberg Trio: Handmade
by Dan Bilawsky
The letter “B" has played a major role in Frank Herzberg's life. The Berlin-born bassist, who spent time honing his craft at Berklee, relocated to Brazil in 1997 and has been busy performing and recording music there ever since. While Herzberg's career choices probably have nothing to do with adding alliterative qualities to his biography, they ...
Skaller / Holt Duo: Music of Mark Dresser
by Glenn Astarita
This duo's first album focuses on a selection of progressive jazz and improvising bass great Mark Dresser's compositions. Known as a first-call session ace, mainly for projects that skirt the boundaries of jazz amid avant-garde inclined encounters, Dresser is also a heralded solo artist. Here, Phillip Skaller and Danny Holt's shrewd integration of pianos, celeste and ...
Lina Nyberg: Palaver
by Eyal Hareuveni
Few artists can evoke poetic musical images of such strong and diverse personae as Brazilian singer, composer and political activist Caetano Veloso, Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, American author Paul Auster, American innovative architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Persian Sufi poet Jelâluddîn Rumi on a single album. ...
Zoran Predin and Matija Dedic: Tragovi u Sjeti
by Nenad Georgievski
After spicing his solo career with diverse and strong material following his front-man work with Lačni Franc, Slovenian singer-songwriter Zoran Predin turns his attention to some great tunes from the golden age of Yugoslavian pop music on Tragovi u Sjeti. Joined by one of Croatia's most celebrated jazz talents, pianist Matija Dedić, this is a collaborative ...
Partikel: Cohesion
by Bruce Lindsay
The saxophone/bass/drums trio may not be the most unusual musical amalgamation but it gives plenty of scope for inventive, dynamic, exchanges between the assembled musicians. Partikel--a young London-based and sax-led trio--makes the most of such opportunities on its second album, Cohesion. Partikel is led by composer Duncan Eagles, who excels on both tenor ...
Elio Villafranca and Arturo Stable: Dos Y Mas
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Elio Villafranca and percussionist Arturo Stable have the world at their fingertips. They originally hail from Cuba, where they received classical training and soaked in the sounds of the people before coming Stateside. But they don't limit their vision to their mutual point of origin. Spain, the Middle East and Africa, along with the sounds ...
Bill Barner: Ten Tunes
by Hrayr Attarian
Variety is the theme of Bill Barner's plainly titled Ten Tunes. Although currently employed by a big band and small swing combos, Barner's career as reed man has spanned different genres, from free jazz and Indian raga and to bluegrass and klezmer, and the disc reflects that versatility, with the leader focusing exclusively on clarinet.
Juhani Aaltonen & Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
by Eyal Hareuveni
Saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist Heikki Sarmanto are two icons of the Finnish jazz scene. Collaborating constantly for almost fifty years in myriad outfits and formats, despite many moves in their busy musical careers, they have never recorded as a duo. These two “incurable romantics," as Aaltonen defines it, use this opportunity to record an album ...
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