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Thomas Johansson: Home Alone
by Mark Corroto
When does this guy breathe? This might be the question going through your mind while you listen to “Signal This," the fifth track on Side A of trumpeter Thomas Johansson's solo recording Home Alone. The brief, three minute performance is, at first glance, more about physicality than music making. On the surface, a solo trumpet performance ...
Kate McGarry/Keith Ganz/Gary Versace: The Subject Tonight Is Love
by Dan Bilawsky
The ancient Greeks spoke of love's many forms, codifying and distilling the essence of every one in detailed thought and language. Each of those documented variants rightly differs from the others, yet the keen mind can certainly discern that all of them basically stem from the same roots: connectivity and understanding. In something of a musical ...
Thomas Stronen: Lucus
by Don Phipps
With Lucus, the reflective, somber, and gentle timbres of composer/drummer Thomas Strønen and his ensemble, Time Is a Blind Guide, brings to mind poet T.S. Eliot's line, “Winter kept us warm." And even as the cold Norwegian waves rise up or lap gently against the rocks along this craggy musical shore, Lucus elicits warmth, like a ...
Abbey Rader: Ritual
by Hrayr Attarian
The stimulating Ritual is an energetic and intricate improvised session that drummer Abbey Rader lead on the 27th January of 2016. Although this absorbing music is free flowing and created on the spot it has a definite, fluid structure to it. The primary reason for this is the shared musical vision among Rader and his side ...
De Groote-Faes Duo Featuring Dave Douglas: Symphony for 2 Little Boys
by Nicola Negri
Secondo album per il duo belga formato da Bruno De Groote (chitarra elettrica) e Ben Faes (contrabbasso), dopo l'esordio di En Route (2014). Per l'occasione, il gruppo ha invitato il trombettista Dave Douglas a partecipare alla registrazione, in tre dei dodici brani in programma. La musica del duo si colloca in un modern ...
Allegra Levy: Cities Between Us
by Angelo Leonardi
Continua a muoversi nel solco della tradizione -tra Peggy Lee e Chris Connor-la giovane cantante e autrice newyorchese, diplomata al New England Conservatory. Dopo il debutto del 2014 (Lonely City, SteepleChase) in questo secondo disco Allegra cambia organico e clima espressivo. Tra i nuovi partner spiccano Kirk Knuffke alla cornetta, Jay Anderson al contrabbasso ...
Mopo: Mopocalypse
by Anthony Shaw
Mopo, the Finnish trio from Helsinki, have now been on the scene since 2009, and since 2011 winning their selection round for the Young Nordic Comets competition, have been performing their brand of quirky and frequently funky jazz around Europe. Their fourth full length album continues their punk inspired attitude to music making with eight tracks ...
Matteo Liberatore: Solos
by Dan McClenaghan
Matteo Liberatore presents, with Solos, an unorthodox exploration of the acoustic guitar. He brings to his artistry preparation modes that include alligator clips, metal springs, bass bow and a kick drum beater (and the bet here is a bunch more), constructing soundscapes architectures that are bold, metallic, industrial and almost always un-guitar-like. In the way of ...
Wes Montgomery: Wes Montgomery In Paris
by Franz A. Matzner
With Resonance Records' release of Wes Montgomery in Paris 1965, we receive not only the first official production of this classic concert to provide royalties to the Montgomery family, but also a gloriously remastered portrait of a seminal jazz contributor during a pivotal period of artistic history. Lovingly appointed with extensive commentary and an ...
Northbound, Seamus Blake: Northbound
by Alberto Bazzurro
Due finlandesi e due statunitensi (uno d'adozione) compongono il quartetto protagonista di questo solido album di post-bop, muscolare ma senza eccessi, con infiltrazioni, a macchia di leopardo, di quanto avvenuto in seguito. Subito gli iniziali “Counterparts" e “Awakening" costituiscono in tal senso un eloquente biglietto da visita, che il successivo “Forgotten" provvede ad ampliare in quanto ...
