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Aruan Ortiz: Cuban Nocturne
by Karl Ackermann
Cuban pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz started playing piano at the age of nine though his primary instruments were violin and viola. As a teen he began playing arrangements of popular Cuban songs in a school where he was already the director of the band. At fifteen he was first exposed to the music of Chick ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyobin
by John Eyles
Karyōbin is a crucially important album in the history and development of freely improvised music. Originally studio-recorded in February 1968 and issued as an Island Records LP later that year, it was remastered and re-released on CD by Chronoscope in 1993. Fine as the music was, both of those issues suffered from less than ideal sound ...
Kodian Trio: II
by Kevin Press
Europe's free jazz scene continues to race forward, to the delight of its small but ardent fan base. The self-described “improvising power unit" Kodian Trio is doing its part to keep things hopping. Featuring Dirk Serries on electric guitar, Andrew Lisle on drums and Colin Webster on alto saxophone, the three-piece recorded its second ...
Dan Zimmerman: Drifting Home
by Jim Worsley
In an era where shredding and playingasfastasyoupossiblycan for no apparent reason have become a norm, it was a pleasure to listen to a guitar being nurtured as the beautiful classic musical instrument that it is. Drifting Home is the first solo effort from veteran guitarist Dan Zimmerman. It features nine original songs. All of ...
Rosario Di Rosa: Composition And Reactions
by Neri Pollastri
Non è un artista quieto e convenzionale Rosario Di Rosa, nel 2015 ottimo secondo con il suo trio tra le formazioni italiane nel Top Jazz di Musica Jazz, grazie a un lavoro -Pop Corn Reflections -che prendeva ispirazione dalla dodecafonia e da Steve Reich (leggi l'intervista fatta in occasione di quel progetto discografico). Lo dimostra questo ...
Lena Bloch: Heart Knows
by Alberto Bazzurro
Sostituendo la chitarra di Dave Miller col pianoforte di Russ Lossing, Lena Bloch dà vita al suo secondo album, a tre anni da Feathery, che oggi dà il nome al suo stesso quartetto. Di quel lavoro, che l'aveva rivelata come una tenorista di bella presenza sonora, soprattutto ottima esponente di un jazz di mezzo molto ben ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa
by Jerome Wilson
Wadada Leo Smith has been on an amazingly productive streak the last few years, creating ambitious work for all kinds of configurations, large orchestras, string ensembles, quartets, duos and solo. About the only format he hadn't explored lately was the dense electronic jazz-rock he's played in the past with his groups Organic and Yo! Miles. With ...
Bob Gluck & Tani Tabbal: At This Time: Duets
by Karl Ackermann
Bob Gluck is a gifted composer of electronic and acoustic music, as well as an educator and writer. As a pianist/keyboardist he has offered innovative and intensely creative modern jazz, finding inspiration in the familiar and the obscure. He has collaborated with Michael Bisio, Jane Ira Bloom, Ken Filiano, and many other top-tier artists. With Billy ...
Allison Au: Forest Grove
by Dan McClenaghan
The best artists--writers, painters, musicians--create distinct new worlds. Canada's Allison Au has done just that with her Juno-Award-winning (2016, Jazz Album of the Year) recording, Forest Grove. The music therein is Au's personal vision transformed into a set of sounds with a continuity of purpose. A rarity for a young artist. Au says she ...
Andrew Bain: Embodied Hope
by Roger Farbey
Edinburgh-born drummer Andrew Bain's musical roots grew out of spells with The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland and London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied for his Bachelor of Music in classical and jazz percussion. He later moved to New York to study for his ...
