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Phil Woods – Jesse Green: Songs for COTA
by AAJ Italy Staff
Registrato lo scorso 26 maggio, questo album vede l'ormai quasi ottuagenario sassofonista del Massachussets duettare col pianista (di quarant'anni esatti più giovane) Jesse Green in ambito COTA (Celebration of the Arts), organismo/evento fondato anni fa in Pennsylvania dallo stesso Woods. Il materiale comprende tutti standard, tranne il conclusivo (e molto ampio: oltre sedici minuti, e ben ...
Emanuele Maniscalco: Slow Band
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Slow Band capitanata da Emanuele Maniscalco dà alle stampe un album che unisce ricerca sonora, improvvisazione formale e fuoripista compositivi tesi alla conquista di territori inesplorati. Il lavoro - rivolto a un pubblico voglioso di mettersi all'ascolto di una musica che esula da banalità e stereotipi - si apre con “Wired," brano dalle ambientazioni notturne, ...
Keiko Matsui: The Road...
by Jeff Winbush
It's a new year, record label, management, and hairstyle for Keiko Matsui, but her first album since 2007's Moyo (Shout Factory!) finds the Japanese pianist still in fine form. The Road... isn't as radical a shift in direction as Moyo was, as Matsui added African influences to her unique melding of musical styles, but it is ...
Benjamin Drazen: Inner Flights
by A. Lienhard
Alto saxophonist Benjamin Drazen has been plying his trade around Manhattan's network of small jazz bars--places like 55 Bar, Smalls, and The Garage--for over a decade. At long last, the New York native unveils his debut outing, Inner Flights. In a program of mostly original music, Drazen consistently delivers strong post-Coltrane fire, with a sound that ...
Matt Wilson: Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O
by AAJ Italy Staff
Niente coretti sdolcinati di atmosfera natalizia, come il titolo e la grafica del CD lascerebbero supporre. Le quattordici tracce di questo Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O confermano quanto Matt Wilson sia uno dei jazzisti più duttili e zigzaganti dell'odierno panorama statunitense. Il suo trio è qui in cattedra per spiegare come e cosa dovrebbero essere il jazz ...
Twelves: The Adding Machine
by Bruce Lindsay
In 2008, Twelves Trio released its debut album, the evocatively-titled Here Comes The Woodman With His Splintered Soul (1965 Records). The band has since added guitarist Rob Updegraff, dropped the Trio appellation, changed record labels, and released album number two, the more prosaically named The Adding Machine. The band's intention to explore, improvise and develop sonically ...
ICP Orchestra: Jubilee Varia
by Glenn Astarita
ICP Orchestra's recordings echo the dynamics and ingenuity of European progressive-jazz improvisation. The largely Dutch band, featuring co-founders, pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink, instituted the ICP Orchestra in parallel with the ICP record label in the late 1960s. The critically heralded 1999 Hat Art album, Jubilee Variance, enjoys renewed life via this 2010 reissue. ...
Taylor Ho Bynum - John Hébert - Gerald Cleaver: Book of Three
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un trio dedito per lo più all'improvvisazione da camera, che cerca di evidenziare le straordinarie qualità dei singoli all'interno di un discorso rigorosamente collettivo. La musica non si concentra su materiale tematico ma evolve da idee ritmico-timbriche, spesso scure, drammatiche. C'è un evidente legame con la vecchia scuola chicagoana, come nella magnifica apertura di “White Birch": ...
Lee Shaw Trio: Live At Art Gallery Reutlingen
by Bruce Lindsay
After over fifty years as a musician, composer and educator Lee Shaw remains active and in demand. While never the most prolific recording artist, she continues to record in her 80s, and 2011 may well be one of her busiest years, with two albums in quick succession. Together Again: Live At The Egg (Artists Recording Collective) ...
Joel Harrison String Choir: The Music of Paul Motian
by John Kelman
Joel Harrison has stretched the boundaries of form and freedom for over fifteen years, but Urban Myths (HighNote, 2009) and, in particular, the ambitious The Wheel (Innova, 2008), have represented significant evolutionary leaps. The Wheel married a conventional horn-led jazz quintet with a classical string quartet, its collection of Harrison originals pushing the limits of cross-pollination ...
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