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Sestetto Internazionale: Aural Vertigo
by Neri Pollastri
Frutto di due registrazioni realizzate nel corso di un tour in Finlandia nel 2015, questo disco presenta, come nello stile di Amirani e di Gianni Mimmo, una musica completamente improvvisata, ovvero composta in tempo reale dai musicisti nel corso della performance. Ciò che lo caratterizza in modo eminente è la scelta della formazione, che ...
Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Flukum
by Angelo Leonardi
Continua l'attività del collettivo artistico afro-americano Heroes Are Gang Leaders, fondato dal poeta Thomas Sayers Ellis e dal sassofonista James Brandon Lewis. Il clima espressivo ricorda simili esperienze degli anni sessanta e settanta senza essere strettamente legato all'estetica del free jazz; ricalca i precedente The Avant-Age Garde I AMs of the Gal Luxury e Highest Engines ...
Leap of Faith Orchestra: SuperClusters
by Karl Ackermann
On two occasions each year, composer and multi-instrumentalist PEK (David M. Peck), gathers together his Evil Clown collective for live recordings. Culled from Leap of Faith, String Theory, Mekaniks, Metal Chaos Ensemble and their respective off-shoots of each, the players form his massive, eighteen-member Leap of Faith Orchestra. For the SuperClusters session, the group assembled at ...
Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile
by Chris May
It is appropriate that this, British-based Sons of Kemet's third album, should be released under the Impulse banner. During its heyday, Impulse was the home of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders and as such was the chief platform for the cosmic/spiritual jazz movement of the 1960s and 1970s and that movement's demand for white-majority ...
Introducing Phil Stewart: Melodious Drum
by Jack Bowers
Cellar Live Records continues its run of admirable mainstream albums with Melodious Drum, Canadian-born and New York City-based Phil Stewart's debut as leader of his own groups, which range from trio to sextet. It's an interesting title, as Stewart's drums may be congenial but aren't melodious in the manner of, say, Jeff Hamilton, Ed Thigpen, Shelly ...
Justin Almquist: The Speed of Dark
by Geno Thackara
How fast does dark actually go anyway? It's light that makes the most common and obvious metaphors for speed, after all. Then again, as the great Terry Pratchett wrote: “no matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it." Shadows simply grow in a different way ...
Jihye Lee: April
by Angelo Leonardi
Quando s'iscrisse al Berklee College of Music, Jihye Lee aveva una scarsa conoscenza del jazz e nessuna intenzione di arrivare a essere orchestratrice e band-leader. Era un cantante pop coreana agli esordi e voleva espandere i suoi orizzonti musicali. Dopo circa un decennio Jihye presenta questo significativo debutto: una raffinata suite, scritta per un ampio organico ...
Max De Aloe, Lorenzo Cominoli, Attilio Zanchi: City of Dreams
by Neri Pollastri
Garrison Fewell è una figura che ha lasciato una traccia indelebile non solo nella storia della musica improvvisata, ma anche in moltissimi di coloro che hanno incrociato le loro strade con la sua. Chitarrista, compositore, improvvisatore, maestro di vita, Fewell negli ultimi anni della sua esistenza, spentasi nel 2015, è stato spesso in Italia, tanto che ...
Joachim Kuhn: Love & Peace
by Karl Ackermann
The German ACT label achieved global recognition when they issued the Esbjorn Svensson Trio album Viaticum (2005) and they warrant broader discovery by U.S. jazz fans. Though their country's best known label casts a global shadow over its competition, the ACT catalog has included Richie Beirach, Lars Danielsson, Vijay Iyer, Manu Katche, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bugge Wesseltoft, ...
Maynard Ferguson: Memories of Maynard
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With the possible exceptions of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker--both of whose playing influenced the entire genre of jazz--no other jazz performer has had the purely imitative effect on an entire instrument's universe of players than Maynard Ferguson. Ferguson's unique abilities as a trumpet player and individual inspire trumpeters young and old to this day. His ...
