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Terrence McManus/- Gerry Hemingway: Below The Surface
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Terrence McManus conveys an extensive music vernacular, tinted with percussive attributes and perceptive interactions with famed drummer, bandleader and consummate improviser Gerry Hemingway during Below The Surface Of. The duo engages a pliant game plan, executed at various pulses, and a broad soundstage that invokes an entertaining outlook, combined with blooming adventurism. The ...
Francesco Bigoni - Franco Dal Monego: Talking
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il ragazzo è cresciuto. E ne ha fatta di strada da quando Francesco Bigoni, giovanissimo ed entusiasta, ha spiccato il volo entrando nel mondo del jazz dalla porta che conta (Enrico Rava's Under 21), diventando in seguito uno dei sassofonisti più richiesti, riconoscibili e personali della scena creativa italiana ed europea. Ora Bigoni e il batterista ...
Jonathan Kreisberg: Shadowless
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Jonathan Kreisberg's music sounds so fresh and new that it seems to have escaped from a parallel universe through a virtual door--assaulting the senses in the known one--where everything else exists in brain-numbing manner. From the first notes he strikes, the guitarist creates a jolting spark, starting an accelerating fire that lights up the taut voices ...
Ferran Fages, Robin Hayward, Nikos Veliotis: Tables and Stairs
by John Eyles
Recorded in June 2010, Tables and Stairs captures an informal trio concert that took place in an Athens apartment at the conclusion of the city's TOT1.0 festival. The trio consists of Ferran Fages, from Barcelona, on sine waves, Robin Hayward, from Berlin, on microtonal tuba, and Athenian Nikos Veliotis on cello, the first time that the ...
Bobby Sanabria / Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!!
by Dan Bilawsky
If the Latin Jazz community had its own Mount Rushmore, then Tito Puente's face would be there, right beside the images of Machito and Mario Bauzá. All three men are viewed as patriarchs and/or key figures in the evolution of the Afro-Cuban musical movement and, despite Puente being the only non-Cuban on that list, Bauzá himself ...
Peter Brötzmann: Wolk In Hosen
by Mark Corroto
In a blindfold test--and not knowing he was but 11 years old when this solo session was recorded in 1976--the sound heard on Wolk In Hosen might be mistaken for that of Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. But no, it is, indeed, Gustafsson's hero and musical role model, the fire-breathing Peter Brötzmann. Also released as ...
The Flying Burrito Brothers: Authorized Bootleg: Fillmore East, Late Show, Nov 7,1970
by Doug Collette
Gram Parsons began The Flying Burrito Brothers with Chris Hillman when the two men left The Byrds in 1968, but the group continued on admirably without Parsons, under Hillman's stewardship, in the role of bassist, singer and songwriter. Authorized Bootleg: Fillmore East compares favorably with the latter-day Burritos' live Last of the Red Hot ...
Soren Moller: Christian X Variations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Quasi-historians suggest that the story, in which Christian X, King of Denmark dictated that all Danes, including himself, would wear the Star of David as a symbol of solidarity with his Jewish subjects, if the Nazis forced the Danish Jews to do so, is apocryphal. The profound nature of the King's support for his Jewish subjects ...
MUTA: Bricolage
by Mark Corroto
Quite the collective, MUTA makes soundscapes from a cooperative effort that is nearly solo-free. That is, the trio of flautist Alessandra Rombolà, electric harpist Rhodri Davies and percussionist Ingar Zach set aside any individual ambition on Bricolage, to create a consistent and cogent statement. Formed in 2003, the players have one previous release, Yesterday ...
Kyle Eastwood: Songs From The Chateau
by Bruce Lindsay
Kyle Eastwood's career encompasses the writing of film soundtracks, as well as the life of a jazz composer, bandleader and bassist. On those seemingly rare occasions when he isn't working, Eastwood spends much of his time in France. Songs From The Chateau is his fifth album since 1998's debut, From There To Here (Sony), and his ...
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