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Paul Dunmall Brass Project: Maha Samadhi
by Alberto Bazzurro
Suite in cinque movimenti, per lo più generosi (quattro superano i dodici minuti), dedicata al mistico indiano del diciannovesimo secolo Sri Ramakrishna e incisa al conservatorio di Birmingham nel giungo 2016, Maha Samadhi vede l'iperproduttivo Paul Dunmall alla testa di un ensemble al cui interno il suo trio si abbina a una brass section di sette ...
Sospensiva: L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'estasi
by Neri Pollastri
Un quartetto di eccellenti musicisti attornia e accompagna la cantante pugliese Paola Arnesano attraverso un album nel quale si misura con musiche originali (composte in parti uguali da lei e dal pianista Alessandro Galati, più due del contrabbassita Attilio Zanchi) su testi scritti della cantante stessa. Il progetto nasce dall'idea della Arnesano di cantare ...
Akua Dixon: Akua's Dance
by Dan Bilawsky
A visage of joyousness fills this album cover. Cellist Akua Dixon, with back arched and eyes closed, can't contain herself. A knowing smile washes over her face as she bathes in the light with cello in hand. It's a picture that perfectly illustrates the artist's place in the moment: Dixon has reached a point of supreme ...
Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts
by Mark Sullivan
In addition to his copious sideman work (including multiple recordings with James Carter, Roscoe Mitchell, Tim Berne, Michael Formanek, and Chris Potter, among many others) pianist/keyboardist Craig Taborn has found time to record intermittently as a leader since 1994's Craig Taborn Trio (IDW). This is his third ECM album, following the solo Avenging Angel (2011) and ...
Vince Tampio: Live at PafA
by Matthew Aquiline
The long-standing practice of incorporating non-Western instruments within a jazz setting is further evolved on up-and-coming trumpeter and composer Vince Tampio's self-produced album Live at PafA. More specifically, the Philadelphia/New York-based musician culled various percussion instruments from Eastern Europe alongside an Indian tanpura for a performance of five original compositions recorded live at the Pennsylvania Academy ...
Tania Chen, Henry Kaiser, Wadada Leo Smith, William Winant: Ocean of Storms
by Troy Dostert
In between stints as a videographer of below-ice underwater regions in Antarctica, guitarist Henry Kaiser maintains a remarkably busy agenda as an improvising musician. Here he's joined by Wadada Leo Smith, an occasional partner going back to their mutual connection with Eugene Chadbourne in the 1970s and later collaboration on their Yo Miles! album from 1998. ...
Teresa Salgueiro: O Horizonte
by Maurizio Comandini
Ho deciso di ascoltare per la prima volta O Horizonte all'una dopo mezzanotte, qualche giorno fa. C'era l'atmosfera giusta: le luci erano basse e stavo lavoricchiando al computer, spulciando piccoli dettagli non molto importanti, cose che lasciavano la mente libera. Una esperienza misteriosa, come vedere un film in bianco e nero che arriva ...
Francesco Forges: Micro Strayhorn
by Neri Pollastri
Musicista poliedrico, cantante, flautista e didatta, Francesco Forges ha avuto modo di parlarci di questo disco e del suo rapporto con la figura di Billy Strayhorn in una recente intervista. Come lui stesso dice, il disco indaga “al microscopio" la musica del grande collaboratore (e “lato oscuro") di Duke Ellington, ma aggiungeremmo che la sottopone anche ...
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita: Transparent Water
by Dan Bilawsky
Omar Sosa would make an excellent global ambassador. He seems to make friends and erase boundary lines wherever he goes. Back in 2012, the Cuban pianist connected with Senegalese kora guru Seckou Keita through a mutual musical associate--drummer Marque Gilmore. Sosa and Keita struck up a quick friendship at that initial meeting, ultimately leading to the ...
Rema Hasumi: Billows Of Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Rema Hasumi, Japanese-born and now New York City-based, calls her compositions sound stories. Those “stories" sound like tales drifting out of a dream land: untethered to time and place, free-flowing and graceful, strikingly pretty, sometimes spooky, and starkly rendered, with the input of her empathic trio that includes bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Randy Peterson, ...
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