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The Willy Torres Orchestra: On Another Path
by Geannine Reid
Willy Torres has released a new album entitled The Willy Torres Orchestra On Another Path, his third release as a soloist, and a follow-up to his previous albums, Hardcore (2011) and What I Bring (2008). Recorded in New Jersey and released on the Italian label Abanico Records, the album contains fourteen tracks, eight composed by Torres, ...
Michela Lombardi & Piero Frassi Trio: Solitary Moon - Inside the Music of Johnny Mandel
by Niccolò Lucarelli
Michela Lombardi è raffinata interprete jazz di musica d'autore, e con la sua ultima fatica musicale non smentisce la sua statura artistica. Solitary Moon. Inside the Music of Johnny Mandel è un omaggio a una figura poliedrica, che dopo una carriera di musicista e compositore jazz tra la fine degli anni Quaranta e la fine degli ...
Kadawa: Kadawa
by Vincenzo Roggero
In Kadawa --album di debutto dell'omonimo guitar-trio --convivono composizioni risalenti al periodo di studio e di formazione in Tel Aviv e nuove composizioni scritte a New York, attuale luogo di residenza del trio. Una sorta di fil rouge che lega passato e presente in una narrazione ricca di sorprese, salti di registro, cambi di direzione che ...
GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star
by Ian Patterson
In GoGo Penguin's universe distance is a particularly relative concept. From the beginning of its voyage the trio has orbited musical worlds seemingly light-years apart; jazz, classical, dance, electronica, game soundtracks and minimalism -all fall into GoGo Penguin's gravitational pull to create a singular sonic constellation. With A Humdrum Star (Blue Note Records, 2018), Chris Illingworth, ...
Steve Slagle: Dedication
by Mark Sullivan
Veteran reed player Steve Slagle delivers another exciting jazz album in this sequel to Alto Manhattan (Panorama Records, 2016). The core band is much the same: pianist Lawrence Fields, drummer Bill Stewart, and Roman Diaz playing conga and percussion on several tracks. Frequent playing partner Scott Colley joins in on bass, and the special guest is ...
Shakers n' Bakers: Heart Love
by Mark Corroto
For most of us it is, and always has been, red states and blue states. I'm talking us vs. them, liberals and conservatives, or my ball team and yours. Same goes for music. The moldy figs vs. beboppers and later, neocons vs. avant-gardists. Yet, some musicians like Albert Ayler, as a radical departure from the norm, ...
The Diva Jazz Orchestra: 25th Anniversary Project
by Hrayr Attarian
The Diva Orchestra, with its vibrant sound and stellar soloists, is one of the premier large ensembles in jazz today. It also happens to be one of the few made up entirely of women. Therefore, it is both a creative hot bed for talented musicians and a forum for female instrumentalists, who remain sorely underexposed, to ...
Satoko Fujii: Solo
by Neri Pollastri
Il 2017 è stato per la pianista giapponese Satoko Fujii un anno di grazia, che l'ha vista pubblicare un impressionante numero di lavori di altissimo livello nelle più diverse formazioni -come Aspiration, in quartetto con Wadada Leo Smith, Natsuki Tamura e Ikue Mori, Trouble Kaze in sestetto, Peace con l'orchestra di Tokio e Invisible Hand in ...
Alan Ferber: Jigsaw
by Angelo Leonardi
Tra il pubblico del jazz italiano è colpevolmente poco noto. Eppure Alan Ferber è tra i più attivi e richiesti trombonisti contemporanei, con più di cento incisioni da sideman negli ultimi 15 anni (tra cui con le orchestre di John Hollenbeck, Darcy James Argue, Brian Landrus, Ted Nash, Gerald Wilson ed i gruppi di Nels Cline, ...
Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine: Tasty Tunes
by Jack Bowers
Tasty Tunes is the fifth CD by Ira B. Liss' stalwart San Diego-based Jazz Machine, which was formed almost forty years ago, in 1979--a span that, when reckoned in big-band years, is much closer to a century or more. While other bands have come and gone the Jazz Machine has adamantly stayed the course, presenting dynamic ...
