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Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra: Hothouse Stomp
by C. Michael Bailey
One of the beauties of long-lived music genres is if a current one becomes boring and the future looks, well, too futuristic, we can always go backwards, investigating earlier forms we may have not paid attention to earlier. And herein lies the value of Brian Carpenter's Hothouse Stomp: The Music of 1920 Chicago and Harlem. The ...
Philipp van Endert Trio: Rosebud
by Douglas Payne
Cinema has long since rendered the word “rosebud" as something elusive and enigmatic, that cannot possibly sum up what others want it to. From the moment that Orson Welles whispers the word in the 1941 film Citizen Kane, a mysterious journey of the purely unknowable is embarked upon. But what a journey. With Rosebud, ...
Kenny Drew, Jr. and Larry Coryell: Duality
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The jazz duo affords its participants wonderful opportunities to stretch out creatively. Ideas, suggestions and negotiations of all musical kinds percolate back and forth. And, in the best of instances, they birth new nuggets for further development and exploration. At the same time, the duet framework can possibly limit, as competitive natures and stylistic dichotomies might ...
Marilena Paradisi - Arturo Tallini: Rainbow Inside
by AAJ Italy Staff
Cantante di contemporanea che non disdegna esperienze in ambito jazzistico, Marilena Paradisi duetta in questo lavoro con un altro musicista contemporaneo, il chitarrista Arturo Tallini, su un progetto che prevede di interpretare alcuni acquerelli di Alessandro Ferraro - riprodotti nelle pagine del libretto - dando loro voce attraverso un dialogo in totale improvvisazione. Date queste premesse, ...
Massimo Altomare: Outing
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dischi come “Outing," oltre che costituire una bella colonna sonora per il quotidiano, confermano le coordinate seguite da chi, oggi, in Italia, cerca qualcosa di più e di diverso dai quattro nomi che riescono a conciliare (non sempre) popolarità e qualità. Musica con qualcosa da dire. Ecco come si può raccontare il nuovo album in studio ...
Nicola Cipani: Klaviermassagen
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nato a Losanna, cresciuto a Milano, studi in filologia classica a Berlino, trasferito negli Stati Uniti, Brooklyn, dove insegna presso la New York University. E dove suona il pianoforte. Poche, stringate informazioni biografiche per farci intuire lo spirito di ricerca ed il rigore che sostengono il percorso umano e artistico di Nicola Cipani. Nel precedente The ...
Outhouse: Straw, Sticks And Bricks
by Bruce Lindsay
Outhouse, part of the London-based Loop Collective, is an outfit that's willing to explore--and not just within the boundaries of jazz. After a trip to The Gambia in 2007, the band brought five Wolof drummers to the UK to record its second album, Ruhabi (Babel, 2010). For third album Straw, Sticks And Bricks the core quartet ...
Darius Jones / Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder
by Nic Jones
Cosmic Lieder contains the sound of a duo engaged in an exercise in totality, which takes in no small amount of the music's past even while there's never any doubt that both players are concerned with music of the future--though, happily, not over-earnestly so. But to call this program a “coming-of-age" would be misleading. Of the ...
The Night Crawlers: Down in the Bottom
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Various shades of indigo, as in the blues, are more than suggested on Down in the Bottom, by Vancouver, Canada's The Night Crawlers. The music is crafted around the alliterative, musical hyperbole-flinging sound of the Hammond B3 organ. Cofounder Cory Weeds suggests that this is tribute to the Hammond B3 bands of the '50s and '60s, ...
Marc Copland: Crosstalk
by Dan McClenaghan
Rather than form a longstanding band that can soak up his musical vision over a period of years, pianist Marc Copland thrives in a universe of rotating players that keeps things fresh and spontaneous. On his three outstanding New York Trio Recordings, Copland switched bassists (Gary Peacock, Drew Gress) and drummers (Paul Motian, Bill Stewart), versatile ...
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