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Noah Kaplan Quartet: Cluster Swerve
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist Noah Kaplan's second album for the Switzerland-based hatOLOGY label equates to a six-year gap, following his debut, Descendants (2011). But the artist has been productive by pushing the envelope via his multi-purposed activities with various ensembles amid his status as a PhD candidate in Music Composition at prestigious Princeton University. He skirts the free-zone here, ...
Chris Potter: The Dreamer Is the Dream
by Vincenzo Roggero
Si inizia con “Heart in Hand," una classica ballad nella quale Chris Potter conferma di essere uno dei massimi stilisti del sax tenore, a proprio agio in un contesto che senza indugi potremmo definire modern mainstream. Nulla che già non si sapesse, quindi, sennonché a circa metà brano, il pianoforte si mostra sì in piena sintonia ...
George Colligan: More Powerful
by Roger Farbey
Pianist George Colligan's twenty eighth album as leader sees him joined by long-time colleague Rudy Royston on drums, bassist Linda May Han Oh and newcomer Nicole Glover, Colligan's former student at Portland, on reeds. Colligan has a long career in jazz and, in addition to teaching at Portland State University where he's the Jazz Area Coordinator, ...
Akiko Tsuruga: So Cute, So Bad
by Dan Bilawsky
On more than one occasion I've sat back while listening to jazz organ giants of yore and thought to myself, “they don't make 'em like this anymore." And while it's true that one-of-a-kind greats like Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott, Big John Patton, Brother Jack McDuff, Charles Earland, and Jimmy McGriff are gone for good, and nobody ...
Jorge Fernandez: J.I.G.E.N
by Mark Sullivan
Mexican drummer/composer Jorge Fernandez leads his quintet through an eclectic collection of modern jazz (the name J.I.G.E.N. means “Jazz, Impro, Groove, Electric, Noise"). “Hacia Las Barrancas II" opens the set with some of the promised instrument noises before going into a long line over a pulse: then a gentle swing section. That's a lot of variety ...
Ron Kadish: Tales From Under
by James Nadal
As a journeyman bassist, Ron Kadish has traveled the long road, while always returning to his home base of Bloomington, Indiana, where he settled in 1993. As a local educator and active musician, he has steadily built up his performance resume and compositional dossier, which come to light in Tales From Under . His many collaborations ...
Dave Kline: Shifting Borders
by Geannine Reid
Violinist Dave Kline is pushing the contemporary voice of strings to new heights, while maintaining a sophisticated yet approachable city sound. Kline's original compositions are intricate and push the violin as a lead instrument in an ensemble setting, assertively bending the borders of undiscovered territory with great result. This idea led to his new album entitled ...
Francesco Forges, Gianni Lenoci: Never
by Alberto Bazzurro
Attorno a testi degli autori che abbiamo ritenuto di indicare accanto ai rispettivi titoli (dove non c'è scritto “testo" s'intende che l'autore è quello della musica, o del brano globale, se estraneo alla diade dei firmatari del CD), nel 2012 Francesco Forges e Gianni Lenoci hanno costruito, componendo e/o improvvisando, questo singolare lavoro, stampato fra l'altro ...
Jon Davis: Happy Juice
by Dan Bilawsky
Everyone has their own version of happy juice. For some, it's the drink; for others, it's literature; for many, it's film; and for a certain breed, it's jazz, that most potent and unpredictable of aural intoxicants. It's the people that fall into that last group who are most likely to quickly uncork this one and take ...
Ambrose Akinmusire: A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Mark Sullivan
Live recordings at the venerable Village Vanguard are immediately part of a storied tradition. Fully aware of the spirit of the place, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire brought his longtime quartet with pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan and drummer Justin Brown--but he took the unusual step of performing all new, original compositions. This is his third Blue ...
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