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Shelly Berg and David Finck: The Deep
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
So it happens that pianist Shelly Berg and bassist David Finck were hired by Chesky Records to play on a Livingston Taylor album. After they finished that session, with the high-end audiophile equipment still in place, David Chesky suggested the two stay and make a duo album themselves. And so they did, virtually on the spot. ...
Gabriele Mirabassi, Roberto Taufic, Cristina Renzetti: Correnteza
by Neri Pollastri
Uniti da un comune amore per la musica di uno dei più grandi autori della musica brasiliana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, e spinti dal desiderio di interpretarla in un modo che ne rispettasse lo spirito più profondo, i tre protagonisti di questo lavoro hanno scelto una serie di suoi brani e li hanno registrati nella Chiesa di ...
Beresford Hammond: Each Edge of the Field
by John Eyles
Each Edge of the Field is the third part of a very appealing trilogy of albums, following in the footsteps of The Science of Snow (The 52nd, 2015) and The Lightning Bell (The 52nd, 2016). Where the latter album added pianist Carolyn Hume and guest vocalist Judie Tzuke alongside the former's duo of guitarist & pianist ...
Laszlo Gardony: Serious Play
by Dan Bilawsky
The beauty of personal expression may be the greatest and most effective balm to soothe our hearts in troubled times. That's the message that pianist Laszlo Gardony gifts us with Serious Play. Following the approach used on Clarity (Sunnyside, 2013), Gardony delves deep into his own subconscious in real time to create a ...
Theo Hill: Promethean
by David A. Orthmann
Promethean captures Theo Hill at a significant juncture in his development. The record is ample evidence that the thirty-something New York City-based artist is rapidly securing a place in the crowded field of noteworthy contemporary jazz pianists. On the one hand--particularly during medium and up-tempo cuts such as “This Here," “Hey, It's Me You're Talking To," ...
Dan Dean: Songs Without Words
by Dan McClenaghan
Bassist Dan Dean's original plan for this project was the hiring of sixteen string players to join him in the studio to record a set for solo bass with string orchestra: Vivaldi's Concerto For Lute and Orchestra in D Major, along with music from JS Bach, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Albononi. The cost for the project proved ...
Jim Black, Óskar Gudjónsson, Elias Stemeseder, Chris Tordini: Malamute
by Vic Albani
Sembra che il signor Jim Black non sbagli praticamente mai un solo colpo. Il batterista di Seattle, dai primordi accanto a nomi faro quali quelli di Tim Berne, Ned Rothenberg o Dave Douglas e poi alle personali esperienze seminali di Pachora e AlasNoAxis è cresciuto come poche altre figure che nobilitano il movimento musicale del jazz ...
Gabriele Coen Sextet: Sephirot. Kabbalah in Music
by Mario Calvitti
Tra i musicisti più attivi nella diffusione della musica klezmer in Italia e in Europa c'è sicuramente il sassofonista e clarinettista Gabriele Coen, che da oltre venti anni propone con i suoi gruppi la sua personale reinterpretazione in chiave jazzistica di questo importante filone della musica folk ebraica, a cui affianca anche una intensa attività di ...
Pete Malinverni: Heaven
by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
Perhaps church would be fashionable again amongst lapsed Christians if every church had musicians at the spec of Pete Malinverni. We have, in part, much to admire of the LA based Newman family for their reach in music and its training, in which composer, Anthony Newman was an insightful mentor to Malinverni's dedication. It would seem ...
John Lindberg: Western Edges
by John Sharpe
Released simultaneously with Born In An Urban Ruin (Clean Feed, 2016), Western Edges reveals yet another facet of bassist John Lindberg's interest. The Raptor Trio reunites Lindberg with saxophonist Pablo Calogero, a comrade from NYC's loft jazz era, when both were 16 years old. Calogero, who was also involved in proto hiphop groups, has been little ...
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