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Matt Otto: Soliloquy
by Don Phipps
A soliloquy according to the dictionary is “an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers....." No more apt title could be assigned to Matt Otto's wonderful album Soliloquy. Reminiscent of Matisse's use of color, Otto uses his music to paint a cool canvas of evocative sounds that describe thoughts ...
Joe Rosenberg: Tomorrow Never Knows
by Alberto Bazzurro
Nuova fatica discografica per il sopranista bostoniano Joe Rosenberg, stavolta in quintetto secco (nel precedente Rituals and Legends il gruppo si allargava fino alle nove unità), per un'ora scarsa di musica elegante e vagamente cameristica (almeno a tratti), che entra subito nel vivo con “Lalit," dodici minuti e mezzo di deambulare articolato, cui il violoncello di ...
Franco Baggiani: Mechanical Vision
by Neri Pollastri
Duo di tromba e batteria, condite da una buona dose di elettronica, questo disco del trombettista fiorentino Franco Baggiani si muove prevalentemente su atmosfere liriche e rarefatte, lontane dai cliché, senza disdegnare alcune incursioni in territori di esplorazione sonora più particolari. La breve improvvisazione che apre il CD è piuttosto aggressiva, specie per l'intensità ...
Gard Nilssen: Live In Europe
by Mark Corroto
Clocking in at just a minute over two-hours of music, the three CDs (or LPs, if you'd like) that make up Live in Europe provide an audacious excursion into creative music. The drummer, known for his work in multiple groups such as the quartets Cortex and Starlite Motel, Bushman's Revenge, Zanussi Five, and the Trondheim Jazz ...
PSYCHAUDIO: Connect
by Geno Thackara
Is the “psych" in Psychaudio meant to imply psychedelia or something more scary like psychosis, you ask? The answer turns out to be bit--only a bit--of both. The New York City quintet doesn't go completely off the rails on their debut release, nor do they dive completely into trippy headspace. The lineup is that of a ...
Dave Zoller: Evidence - Music of Thelonious Monk
by Patrick Burnette
Younger readers may not believe this, but there was a time when all-Thelonious Monk tribute albums were a rarity. During most of Monk's lifetime, musicians focused on a few of his best-known tunes ("Round Midnight" was--and remains-- the obvious favorite). But then Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, and other champions of Monk began to devote whole albums ...
Fabian Almazan: Alcanza
by Angelo Leonardi
Giunto al quarto disco da leader, Fabian Almazan s'impone con un'opera ambiziosa e appassionante, che ha ricevuto superlativi giudizi dai massimi jazz magazine statunitensi. Alcanza è una suite in nove movimenti con tre brevi interludi incisa dallo stesso organico del precedente album Rhizome (Artist Share, 2014): ovvero il piano trio con la bassista Linda Oh} e ...
Paul Brody's Sadawi: Vanishing Night
by Neri Pollastri
Cinquantaseienne di Seattle, figlio di padre ucraino e madre ebrea fuggita da Vienna, il compositore e trombettista Paul Brody si muove da anni in molti campi musicali, dal jazz alla musica per il teatro, dalle installazioni al klezmer, lavorando ora negli Stati Uniti, ora in Europa, in particolare in Germania. Questo lavoro -registrato a Berlino -lo ...
Matt Otto/Andy Ehling: Reunion
by Don Phipps
A Los Angeles import whose left an indelible mark on the Kansas City jazz scene, tenor sax and composer extraordinaire Matt Otto continues his run of successful jazz explorations with Reunion, a collaboration with 30-year friend and Bay Area, CA alto saxophonist Andy Ehling. Otto's music has always seemed a bit out of place ...
Sean Noonan: Man No Longer Me
by Chris Mosey
Man No Longer Me is about the transformation of a man who gets tickled by a sunbeam one morning on a mountain top and who, as the story progresses, wanders and gets lost in a desert and transforms into a coyote. All clear, so far? New York avant-garde drummer Sean ...
