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João Paulo Esteves da Silva / Mário Franco / Samuel Rohrer: Brightbird
by Henning Bolte
There is music that gradually unfolds, music that lingers in stasis, music with sparse tonal movement, and, sometimes, music that simply happens, like the symphonies of sound in nature. This trio's music is quite close to this last mode. Just a few tones open up a broad living-space and let sound happen and get enriched by ...
Giancarlo Mazzù, Luciano Troja, Francesco Branciamore: Broad-Ways
by Neri Pollastri
Giancarlo Mazzù e Luciano Troja (clicca qui per leggere la loro intervista) tornano al loro primo amore, la rilettura libera e creativa degli standard a cui avevano dedicato i primi tre album del loro sodalizio artistico (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del secondo), ma questa volta lo fanno coinvolgendo la batteria di Francesco Branciamore.
Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile
by Enrico Bettinello
Con il consueto ritardo (tempo tecnico di maturazione lo definirebbe qualcuno di più diplomatico) anche il mondo globalizzato del jazz si sta accorgendo del talento di Shabaka Hutchings. Chi bazzica infatti il jazz europeo più vivace non può non avere notato da tempo il sassofonista inglese, con i The Comet Is Coming, con Louis Moholo, con ...
Paolo Fresu: Carpe Diem
by Don Phipps
If you were somehow able to interject Miles Davis in his cool period into today's contemporary European jazz scene, you'd have to think he'd sound a lot like Paolo Fresu. But while Miles concerned himself with the sound of “urban" cool, Fresu offers a romance-infused cool. Think balcony on Mediterranean bluffs at sunset, a glass of ...
Samo Salamon & Howard Levy: Peaks of Light
by Mark Sullivan
American harmonica player Howard Levy is not only a master of the diatonic harmonica; he is also an eclectic musician who elevates every playing situation he participates in. Slovenian guitarist/composer Samo Salamon is a jazz specialist, but he is also a fearless improviser, as demonstrated in his recent duet project WindS (Klopotec, 2016) with pianist Stefano ...
Martin Lutz: In Denmark I Was Born
by Gareth Thompson
Two hands, one black and one white, hold aloft a heart-shaped map of the world. It might not be subtle, but the artwork adorning this album speaks volumes for it. Martin Lutz is an eclectic Danish composer with a global outlook and a compassionate ethic. He believes in love, empathy and the power of collective action. ...
Hank Jones: In Copenhagen - Live at Jazzhus Slukefter 1983
by Chris Mosey
Hank Jones' pianistic style was born out of a fusing of Harlem stride piano with the virtuoso approach of Art Tatum and the harmonic daring of bebop. Jones played with just about everyone in a long and illustrious career but remained modest concerning his musical achievements. When French journalist Francis Marmande, interviewing him in 2010, suggested ...
Mike Mizwinski: A Year Ago Today
by Doug Collette
There's a photo of Mike Mizwinski on his website populated with background images of artists ranging from Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, the Who, the Avett Brothers and the String Cheese Incident. Speaking volumes about this man's eclectic approach to music, this pictorial evidence also suggests much about the freewheeling attitude Mizwinski displays on A Year ...
Mattias Nilsson: Dreams of Belonging
by C. Michael Bailey
In the 1970s and '80s, Windham Hill and Narada made scores of solo piano records that ranged from near sublime to the maudlin, all under the name of “New Age." I listened to hours of it and had my favorite artists. That said, I cannot say that I ever experienced the soul of that music. It ...
Kirke Karja Quartet: Turbulence
by Tyran Grillo
Despite the title of Turbulence, Estonian pianist/composer Kirke Karja and her eponymous quartet carry this vessel of an album through the smoothest of takeoffs and landings. Riding the jet stream of largely original material, it takes full advantage of its wingspan to cross borders. The title track is a compression of the album's entire ...
