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Marcus Miller: A Night in Monte-Carlo
by Woodrow Wilkins
He's the man in the porkpie hat. Bassist, composer, arranger and producer Marcus Miller matches classical with jazz on A Night in Monte-Carlo, featuring L'Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo. Miller, a two-time Grammy Award-winner, has a diverse and vast discography as a leader, producer and sideman. Among his numerous credits are work with Miles Davis, ...
Jonathan Kreisberg: Shadowless
by John Kelman
In a landscape populated by forty-something guitarists like Kurt Rosenwinkel and thirty-something six-stringers like Lage Lund, Jonathan Kreisberg stands alone. Sure, he's got the chops and linguistic sophistication of a group of peers who are the clear next step beyond the innovations of Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Bill Frisell , but what separates Kreisberg is ...
Gideon Van Gelder: Perpetual
by Mark F. Turner
By implementing diverse styles without being confined to any particular one, pianist Gideon Van Gelder provides stimulation for the mind and ear with Perpetual. Categorizations are meaningless yet intriguing, displaying swatches of Van Gelder's open concepts, Third Stream, and lessons probably garnered from New York's New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, which Van Gelder attended ...
AA.VV.: I Never Meta Guitar
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'etichetta portoghese Clean Feed ha chiesto al chitarrista newyorkese Elliott Sharp di curare una antologia di brani dedicati alla chitarra contemporanea e ha raccolto il risultato in questo ottimo album: sedici brani affidati a sedici diversi interpreti. Sedici storie che si compenetrano e che riescono a raccontare le mille sfaccettature legate alle illimitate possibilità dello strumento. ...
Roscoe Mitchell and The Note Factory: Far Side
by Charles Walker
In his recent book about the AACM, A Power Stronger Than Itself (University of Chicago, 2007), trombonist/composer/critic George Lewis makes a serious, thoroughly researched argument for its members creating their own lineage of American “experimental music," influenced as much by pan-African musics or juke joint jam sessions as by European high art music, and yet beholden ...
Greg Burk - Vicente Lebron: Unduality
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un album su Bach senza suonare filologicamente la musica di Bach è già qualcosa di insolito, ma suonarla in duo con un percussionista caraibico è davvero una scommessa. E' questo l'azzardo di Greg Burk con l'intento di far dialogare piano e moog con le congas, tambora, talkin drum etc. di Vicente Lebron. Anche se la musica ...
Phil Sargent: A New Day
by AAJ Italy Staff
A New Day conferma tutte le doti tecniche ed espressive di Phil Sargent, chitarrista già apprezzato in altre produzioni, che anche in questa nuova avventura si contorna di musicisti pronti a ricamare delle tele melodiche di sicuro impatto emotivo. Tra le buone ragioni per mettersi all'ascolto di quest'album c'è la voce gentile di Aubrey Johnson, la ...
Richard Doron Johnson: Battle Grounds
by Greg Simmons
In a year that saw some lionized piano trio records, Richard Doron Johnson's debut, Battle Grounds, might be the overlooked gem. Johnson is hardly a household name, even within the small, tight circle of jazz fans. His website reveals stints with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Thelonious Monk Institute, as well as gigs with ...
Antonio Torrini: Avicenne Jazz Project
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il vulcanico contrabbassista toscano è da tempo attivo sulla scena del jazz nazionale con progetti che vanno dal jazz per big band alla musica pop da cui proviene. Un modo eclettico di relazionarsi alla musica che richiede una solida preparazione. Ed infatti, oltre a confermarsi bravo contrabbassista, Torrini è pure autore di tutte le composizioni e ...
Free Range Saxophone Quartet: Fireflies
by C. Michael Bailey
Since inception, the Origin Classical imprint has existed as a stylistic hinge between classical music and jazz. Defying genre definition, Origin Classical's archive should properly be considered simply music--that which defies category. Only a single release, Linda Tsatsanis and John Lenti's And I Remain: Three Love Stories--Music of the Seventeenth Century for Voice and Lute (Origin ...
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