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Steve Coleman: Morphogenesis
by Karl Ackermann
Steve Coleman's music has long sounded largely removed from the direct influence of his native Southside Chicago, not because those elements are missing, but because he creates a hybrid universe that owes as much to Africa and Europe, and to folk, funk, classical and jazz. His newest release, Morphogenesis, while furthering Coleman's musical development, displays features ...
Nat King Cole Trio: Swiss Radio Days, Vol. 43 - Zurich 1950
by Dan Bilawsky
Nat King Cole means two very different things to two different segments of the music-loving populace today. To those simply plugged into popular culture he's the golden-voiced baritone crooner, debonair and delightful as can be while travelling over the airwaves. But to those steeped in jazz history he's known as a mighty and true pianist, throwing ...
The Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra: Dreaming Big
by Jack Bowers
What's that you say? A New York-based Jazz Orchestra as admirable as this one whose recording debut was delayed for more than twenty-five years? There ought to be a law! Well, in this case it wasn't the law but a lawyer who sidetracked the orchestra's debut for so many years. His name is Brett Gold, and ...
Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
by Stefano Merighi
Ecco un'occasione in cui una recensione solitamente attacca con “riesumato tesoro musicale nascosto," “ritrovato scrigno sonoro inaspettato," e via di seguito. Invece sarà meglio chiedersi: ma come? Un quartetto di Thelonious Monk (più Barney Wilen ospite) incide dei pezzi per un film di Roger Vadim, alla luce del sole, non certo in incognito, e ...
Charles Lloyd New Quartet: Passin' Thru
by Angelo Leonardi
Alla soglia degli ottant'anni Charles Lloyd continua a mostrare la vivacità e l'energia di un trentenne. Abbiamo appena terminato d'apprezzare la collaborazione con Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz e altri nel progetto The Marvels (I Long to See You Blue Note 2016) che la storica etichetta annuncia la pubblicazione di Passin' Thru, terzo disco del suo ...
Mario Marzi, Achille Succi: Bach in Black
by Neri Pollastri
"Architetture perfette, musica allo stato puro, dove non contano né gli strumenti né i musicisti, solo l'idea generatrice": con queste parole Mario Marzi conclude le poche note con le quali introduce questo singolare e coraggioso lavoro sulla musica di Johann Sebastian Bach. Parole in parte vere e in parte no, perché se è vero che le ...
Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse: Morphogenesis
by Troy Dostert
After his 2015 masterpiece, Synovial Joints, alto saxophonist/composer Steve Coleman left his listeners wondering how he could try to top that extraordinary project. With 21 musicians and an ambitious melding of classical and jazz instrumentation with intricate compositional decisions, Coleman used that record to reveal yet another dimension of his constantly-evolving musical concept--one that's been changing ...
Greg Duncan & The Individuation Quintet: Unification
by Mark Corroto
Let's start at the dénouement. Trumpeter Greg Duncan and his Individuation Quintet close their premier release with “Say Hey," a composition Branford Marsalis wrote for director Spike Lee's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues. The conclusion is a fitting genesis for Duncan's declaration. Just like fellow trumpeter Nate Wooley's refashioning of brother Wynton Marsalis' music on (Dance ...
Daniele D'Agaro, Massimo De Mattia, Giovanni Maier: Tea Time
by Neri Pollastri
Prendete tre musicisti perfettamente adusi all'improvvisazione e che, per giunta, si conoscono bene da anni, anzi, sono cresciuti artisticamente assieme; fornite loro uno spunto ideale -una varietà di colori da descrivere, quelli suggeriti dai molti tè prodotti dall'antica fabbrica indiana di Ooty, nel Tamil, fotografata da Luca D'Agostino; date loro, infine, il tempo e lo spazio ...
Sylvia Brooks: The Arrangement
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Sylvia Brooks likes to provide her music a noir patina, that smoky and dark evening tone preferred by the likes of the fictional hard men: Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Jeff Markham. On her third recording, The Arrangement, this patina is given a high buff shine into something more contemporary, without losing any of the ...
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