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Marc Edwards: The Bowels Of Jupiter
by Don Phipps
As you listen to The Bowels of Jupiter, you will have no special gear to protect you from the musical g-forces that will blanket your ears and brain. But you wouldn't want any, as it is these musical g-forces that make drummer Marc Edwards and guitarist Mick Barr's album an incredible listening experience.
Alessandro Bosetti: The Notebooks
by Mark Corroto
Listening to the work of Alessandro Bosetti reminds me of a friend I have who suffered a lengthy bout with sleeplessness. It wasn't so much the insomnia that tormented him but a pop song (specifically Engelbert Humperdinck's version of “Quando, Quando, Quando") that was stuck in his head. Playing on an endless loop, he feared psychosis. ...
Dave Tull: texting and driving
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Wallflower. The word has zero application to describe jazz drummer, vocalist and composer/arranger/producer, Dave Tull. He's more like a Venus Fly-Trap of talent, devouring all those activities and offering a keen eye for life's surrealities. He demos all on his second CD, texting and driving. It might just be what's needed for a long, endless drive ...
Nordic Circles: Under the Clouds
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo l'esordio nel 2015 con Winter Rainbow l'ensemble scandinavo Nordic Circles cambia quasi completamente i componenti (resta il batterista Anders Thorén) confermando i tratti stilistici di fondo: un jazz raffinato che privilegia cantabilità melodica e raffinatezza timbrica. L'ingresso della cantante Siril Malmedal Hauge e la sostituzione della tromba con il sax tenore di Magnus Bakken sono ...
Paraphrase: Please Advise
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Tim Berne has taken his Snakeoil group to the top, with four excellent CD releases on ECM Records, including 2017's Incidentals. The ECM label is considered by many to be the gold star standard in terms of jazz--though the word “jazz" is way too confining to describe the music in their extensive catalog. That level ...
Kjetil Møster: Ran Do
by Mark Corroto
More than in any other American jazz scene, the musicians of Chicago have embraced and continue to embrace their colleagues in Europe and the UK. In the 1990s the Chicagoan Ken Vandermark began a long-standing association with Mats Gustafsson (Sweden) and Peter Brotzmann (Germany). And Hamid Drake has been crisscrossing the Atlantic for ages. These connections ...
Kjetil Jerve / Tim Thornton / Anders Thorén: Circumstances
by Roger Farbey
Astonishingly, this international trio--Kjetil Jerve from Norway, Tim Thornton from the UK and Anders Thorén from Sweden--had played only one concert together before they recorded the studio tracks from which the contents of this album were gleaned. That recording session lasted two hours but here has been whittled down to just under an hour's worth of ...
Kaze: Atody Man
by Jerome Wilson
The second offering in Satoko Fujii's 60th birthday CD-a-month marathon is by her long time quartet, Kaze. The group's instrumentation of two trumpets, piano and drums would lead you to think it's heavily experimental and abstract, but while those elements are present, there is, on Atody Man, always a sense of order to this music with ...
Marco Colonna, Cristian Lombardi: Medea
by Neri Pollastri
Medea è uno dei miti che attraversano senza posa la nostra cultura da oltre due millenni, una delle grandi figure drammatiche della femminilità che ha ispirato scrittori e poeti, drammaturghi e filosofi. Medea è qui l'ispiratrice di un progetto musicale per una formazione numericamente ristretta --accanto ai sassofoni di Marco Colonna, che opera anche all'elettronica, solo ...
Raoul Bjorkenheim eCsTaSy: Doors of Perception
by Maurizio Comandini
Il chitarrista Raoul Bjorkenheim è nato a Los Angeles nel 1959 da genitori finlandesi e nel paese nordico ha ben localizzato le sue radici artistiche. La sua peculiare ricerca timbrica lo contraddistingue da molti anni sulla scena della musica jazz alternativa che basa la sua strutturazione sull'improvvisazione ben organizzata. Bjorkenheim è uno dei nomi di punta ...
