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Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without A Trace
by Edward Blanco
The Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra follows up the highly successful debut album Portraits and Places (Origin, 2016), with another masterpiece recording on Without A Trace offering new and exciting arrangements of three standards and four creative Reeves originals that all together, pack quite a powerful musical punch. A full-tenured professor at The City University of New ...
Roberto Frassini Moneta, Francesco Ganassin, Gabriele Mitelli, Nelide Bandello: About Silence
by Neri Pollastri
Una ricerca musicale sul silenzio, questo è quel che il contrabbassista Roberto Frassini Moneta documenta in About Silence. Al suo fianco giovani musicisti come l'ormai affermato Gabriele Mitelli alla tromba e il meno noto ma interessantissimo Francesco Ganassin ai clarinetti, oltre all'esperto e avventuroso Nelide Bandello alla batteria. Disco sul silenzio, ma non per ...
Ryan Keberle, Frank Woeste: Reverso: Suite Ravel
by Alberto Bazzurro
Ryan Keberle, trentasettenne trombonista dell'Indiana, e Frank Woeste, quarantaduenne pianista di Hannover, il primo con alle spalle rendez-vous piuttosto variopinti (da David Bowie a Maria Schneider, da Wynton Marsalis a Woody Allen), il secondo ormai da una ventina d'anni inserito nel milieu jazzistico francese, si abbinano a una coppia di musicisti che sembrano in qualche modo ...
Miles Davis: Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6
by Doug Collette
It's a measure of Miles Davis' great respect for John Coltrane that the well-established jazz icon would ask the jazz icon in-the-making to do one more tour (of Europe) as the final component of latter's second stint in a quartet led by the man with the horn. The closure had begun with Coltrane's prior resignation, as ...
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: An Angel Fell
by Chris May
In 2016, California-based tenor saxophonist Idris Ackamoor relaunched his 1970s spiritual-jazz band, The Pyramids, and released a corking new album, We Be All Africans (Strut Records). In spring 2018, he has released another outstanding disc with another almost entirely new line-up. The only musician who is held over from We Be All Africans is violinist Sandra ...
Laurence Pike: Distant Early Warning
by Gareth Thompson
Laurence Pike famously studied with jazz piano legend Mike Nock at Sydney's Conservatorium. The master and his apprentice then later worked together, both in concert and in the studio. But whilst the percussionist Pike may be shorn of his guru's input on this album, Nock's imprint is still tangible. Distant Early Warning was conceived ...
Owen Broder: Heritage
by Jerome Wilson
The cross-pollination of jazz and folk music is nothing new, but saxophonist Owen Broder does push things forward in this exploration of the idea, asking five different composers from varying generations and backgrounds to each write their own take on American folk music for an eight-piece ensemble. Besides Broder himself, the compositions and arrangements ...
Jeff Hamilton: Live from San Pedro
by Edward Blanco
Together 17 years and counting, the Jeff Hamilton Trio presents another exceptional session of music captured in a one-night live performance at the Alvas Showroom in San Pedro, CA simply titled Live from San Pedro. Along with pianist Tamir Hendelman and bassist Christoph Luty, drummer Hamilton and crew touch on a host of creative compositions including ...
Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas: Scandal
by Giuseppe Segala
Nei propri lavori, Dave Douglas ha focalizzato spesso la propria attenzione su figure significative del jazz e della musica contemporanea. Ricordiamo tra l'altro dischi come In Our Lifetime del 1995, dedicato a Booker Little, Moving Portrait del 1998, ispirato a Joni Mitchell, Soul on Soul del 2000, rivolto a Mary Lou Williams. Anche Wayne Shorter era ...
Cortex: Avant-Garde Party Music
by Vic Albani
Fossero tutte così le party-band! Cortex e Clean Feed colpiscono ancora e questo nuovo e ironico Avant-Garde Party Music la dice lunga sulle prospettive dello straordinario quartetto norvegese che dà alle stampe un nuovo capitolo della loro fortunata discografia. Se qualcuno cercasse una naturale evoluzione di un moderno hard-bop che attraversando gli insegnamenti di ...
