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Yarn/Wire Ensemble: Currents 0
by Karl Ackermann
From their roots at Stony Brook University in 2005, the dual percussion/dual piano quartet Yarn/Wire has taken an uncommon approach to experimental music. In the case of Currents 0 the jazz roots are strong even as the interpretations are wide open. A continuing sequence of projects under the umbrella of 'Currents' has generated more than one dozen ...
Jim Casey: Miles Goes Wes
by Jack Bowers
Here's a straightforward album with a rather intriguing title --Miles Goes Wes, Texas-bred guitarist Jim Casey's unassuming homage to a pair of jazz icons, Messrs Davis and Montgomery. While the session lays heavy emphasis from end to end on funky backbeats and assertive percussion, Casey strives to nurture interest by varying the group size and instrumentation, ...
Nypan: Stereotomic
by Geno Thackara
You have to give people a chance to miss you sometimes. Øyvind Nypan certainly seems to understand the idea of spacing visits apart in order to have something to bring back to the table each time. His second Losen Records outing took four years to follow on from Republique (Losen, 2013), and the entire backing cast ...
Pink Floyd: Obfusc/ation
by Doug Collette
Lavishly designed and annotated packages on the order of Pink Floyd's The Early Years (Sony-Legacy, 2016) would be meaningless if the enclosures didn't so warrant the concepts. But the fact of the matter is content on the high order of Obfusc/ation 1972 demands treatment comparable to a precious books in an extensive library. The set, one ...
Jakob Sorensen: Nomad
by Nick Davies
Scandinavian jazz has always found its strength in its musicians like Jakob Bro, who is a guitarist and has worked with such names as Bill Frisell but is also band leader in his own right; as well as double bassist Jasper Hoiby, who leads the critically acclaimed band Phronesis while being an in demand sideman. Young ...
Samo Salamon Bassless Trio: Unity
by Luigi Sforza
Non capita spesso di ascoltare dischi di notevole spessore. Pertanto, quando se ne presenta l'occasione è necessario, anzi doveroso, celebrarli con adeguata deferenza e, come oggetti preziosi, riservare loro un posto di assoluto rispetto nello scaffale che li accoglierà, posizionandoli di fianco ad altre opere del medesimo livello e, possibilmente, a portata di mano, così da ...
Paolo Sorge: Triplain
by Neri Pollastri
Il chitarrista catanese Paolo Sorge, tra i fondatori di Improvvisatore Involontario, si unisce qui a un'altro membro storico dell'etichetta -Francesco Cusa e al contrabbassista Gabriele Evangelista per dar vita a un classico trio. C'è una qualche varietà stilistica nelle sette tracce originali che coprono i tretatre minuti di musica dell'album: si inizia con un ...
Izabella Effenberg Trio: IZA
by Ian Patterson
The vibraphone seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance of late, with any number of outstanding exponents of the instrument popping up in all corners of the world. Izabella Effenberg may be a new name for many, but the Polish vibraphonist has already collaborated with the likes of Tony Lakatos, Magnus Ostrom, Nippy Noya and ...
Marc Copland: Better By Far
by Dan McClenaghan
Marc Copland got his start in jazz in New York City as a sometimes plugged-in alto saxophonist, working with drummer Chico Hamilton's Quartet, and releasing an overlooked album, Friends (Oblivion Records, 1973) featuring his own quartet. Then he went away, and came back as a pianist, and has since shaped himself into one of finest jazz ...
ÌFÉ: IIII+IIII
by James Nadal
The process of personal transformation, when dealing with spirituality, can be a powerful motivational force. Leader and front man Otura Mun is the guiding light of ÌFÉ, a Puerto Rican fusion ensemble which has recreated the essence of the Santeria religion, as a nucleus for this production. American born Otura Mun, started out as an accomplished ...
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