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Trish Clowes: My Iris
by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
Firstly, each individual in the Trish Clowes Quartet, Trish Clowes on various saxophones, Ross Stanley on piano and Hammond, Chris Montague on guitar and James Maddren on drums, fits their corner perfectly, providing the extra dimension that makes their cohesive playing effortless. There are no shirkers or hang back components in this line up. My Iris ...
John Martin: The Hidden Notes - Spirit Of Adventure
by Budd Kopman
The Hidden Notes--Spirit Of Adventure by saxophonist John Martin and his quintet (Ralph Wyld on vibes, guitarist Rob Updegraff, drummer Tim Giles and Tim Fairhall on bass) (mentioned briefly here) is a project that has had a four-year gestation. Calling the naturally occurring harmonics that are produced over the fundamental by all instruments the “hidden notes," ...
Benedikt Jahnel Trio: The Invariant
by Karl Ackermann
The Invariant, as in a “constant," is a fitting title for Benedikt Jahnel Trio who have recorded as a unit since their debut Modular Concepts (Material label, 2008) and later moving on to the ECM label with Equilibrium (2012). Jahnel, a musician and mathematician in Berlin, has a deep appreciation for complex similarities between the two ...
Haruka Yabuno, Milena Jancuric, Ehud Ettun: Collage of Moments
by Hrayr Attarian
Prodigious pianist and composer Haruka Yabuno is also an accomplished improviser. She draws on her educational background in both classical music and jazz, as well as her native Japanese heritage, to craft engrossing and vibrant works that are delightfully unique. Two like-minded fellow alumni of Berklee College of Music, the virtuoso Israeli bassist Ehud Ettun and ...
Tim Langedijk Trio: Up North
by Budd Kopman
One of the hallmarks of a truly creative jazz musician is that his or her musical vision is immediately identifiable, and guitarist Tim Langedijk is one of those players. His trio's latest album, Up North is a marvelous document of his elegance, intensity, surprising musical choices and understated technique. When combined with the equally ...
Matty Harris: Double Septet
by Angelo Leonardi
Laureatosi al California Institute of the Arts, il trentenne sassofonista Matty Harris pubblica il secondo disco del suo Double Septet, un organico d'avanguardia comprendente il settantenne Vinny Golia -ancora in gran forma -e validi strumentisti operanti in California. L'organico ha debuttato nel 2013 con l'album Songs e quasi gli stessi componenti. Negli anni precedenti, a partire ...
Harriet Tubman and Wadada Leo Smith: Araminta
by Mark Corroto
Things are urgent now. Actually, they have been critical for some time, but you might have chosen to ignore them. Politics, racism, sexism, war, inequality, and xenophobia are now issues that you must confront at home, work, in social media, and even within your bowling league. Everyone must have an opinion, and maybe that is the ...
Dinosaur: Together, As One
by Ian Patterson
The debut album of the newly baptized Dinosaur--but the second album of the group formerly known as the Laura Jurd Quartet, following Landing Ground (Chaos Collective, 2012)--sees composer Jurd inspired by Miles Davis's late 1960s/early 1970s electric period. Though Jurd's trumpet, Elliot Galvin's Fender Rhodes/Hammond soundscapes and the persistent grooves plied by Conor Chaplin and Corrie ...
The Reunion Project: Varanda
by Dan Bilawsky
If ever there was a gathering that's true to name and a misnomer, this is it. The Reunion Project isn't a glimpse at a band reformation or a grand comeback statement, but rather an expression of shared experiences, influences, and actions. It's both a look back to earlier times and the dawn of a new adventure. ...
Matt Mitchell: Forage
by Dan McClenaghan
Alto saxophonist Tim Berne could have been called, at the dawn of the new millennium, the American artist least likely to join the ECM Records roster. The thought here was that Berne's relentless momentum and frequent agitation and flat out wild man brazenness wouldn't fit in well enough with the European impressionism/Nordic cool approach (a definite ...
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