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John Lindberg BC3: Born in an Urban Ruin
by Alberto Bazzurro
Trio di squisita fisionomia cameristica, qui registrato nel maggio 2016, il BC3 di John Lindberg riporta sotto i riflettori il bassista del Michigan con un lavoro degno dei suoi migliori trascorsi. Già la conformazione clarinetto-vibrafono-contrabbasso denota quanto ci si avvicini a un'idea--appunto-- cameristica del fare jazz, non senza rimandare qua e là a colui che fu ...
Ratatet: Arctic
by Neri Pollastri
Disco di esordio per Ratatet, sestetto di San Francisco diretto dal batterista Alan Hall, che presenta una musica semplice e swingante, di stampo cameristico ancorché qua e là screziata di elettronica, caratterizzata e resa personale dall'accuratezza degli arrangiamenti e -soprattutto -dalla particolare strumentazione dell'organico. Le undici tracce, tutte relativamente brevi (solo tre arrivano ai ...
Led Bib: Umbrella Weather
by Dan Bilawsky
When you're talking umbrella weather, there's rain and then there's rain. A drizzle and a downpour are two very different beasts, and this most certainly qualifies as the latter. Led Bib opens up the heavenly and hellish skies to create a deluge in sound on this terrifically tempestuous RareNoise date. Some bands born ...
John Lindberg BC3: Born In An Urban Ruin
by John Sharpe
Acclaimed bassist John Lindberg's trio on Born In An Urban Ruin possesses a distinctive and deeply personal sound in keeping with the man himself. That's down to both the novel instrumentation with long time associate Kevin Norton mostly on vibes and Michigan native Wendell Harrison on clarinets, and the character of Lindberg's writing. The essential humanity ...
Modus Factor: The Picasso Zone
by Dave Wayne
Versatiity is the key to the musical success of The Picasso Zone by the multi-national, polystylistic electric jazz trio Modus Factor. Based in Toronto, Modus Factor is comprised of Canadian drummer (and putative bandleader) Chris Lesso, trumpeter Brownman Ali--originally from Trinidad--and Uganada- born bassist Ian De Souza. Clearly, these guys' diverse origins contributed to their abiding ...
Ibrahim Maalouf: Red & Black Light
by Luca Muchetti
Alla fine del 2016 lo abbiamo visto duettare con Sting sul palco del Bataclan note di “Ishallah," sulle orme di una speranza possibile e necessaria. Oggi riascoltiamo Ibrahim Maalouf nel suo Red & Black Light, ultima fatica in studio pubblicata dalla Impulse!, terreno liquido nel quale lungo otto tracce il trombettista franco-libanese getta ponti fra mondi ...
Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith: Nessuno
by Alberto Bazzurro
Non è Ulisse né una celebre canzone portata al successo da Mina: questa è semplicemente la riproposizione integrale di un concerto tenutosi l'8 maggio 2011 a Bologna nell'ambito della rassegna Angelica, in cui nessuno dei quattro performers occupava (almeno sulla carta) posizioni di preminenza. In realtà quanto svoltosi quella sera di oltre cinque ...
Brad Myers & Michael Sharfe: Sanguinaria (Hopeful Songs)
by Roger Farbey
Cincinnati-based Brad Myers's follow-up recording to his 2015 quintet album “Prime Numbers" is essentially a duo record with his bassist colleague Michael Sharfe. The qualification “essentially" is deployed because there is additional percussion on most tracks but it's used as decorative augmentation rather than a vital rhythm unit. The opener, “Sanguinaria (Hopefulsong)" is atypical ...
Orrin Evans: #knowingishalfthebattle
by Mark F. Turner
Since the 1990s Philadelphia-based pianist Orrin Evans has carved out a revered career as a band leader, producer, composer, and first and foremost, one helluva jazz pianist. Recorded live at New York's Sear Sound's Studio, #knowingishalfthebattle is his third release on Smoke Sessions with an all-star lineup that includes two other well-known Philly natives, guitarists Kevin ...
John O'Gallagher Trio: Live In Brooklyn
by Roger Farbey
Over the past 25 years, altoist and New York resident, John O'Gallagher has worked with the likes of Joe Henderson, Maria Schneider, Kenny Wheeler, Billy Hart and Chris Cheek amongst many others. German born but long-time New Yorker bassist Johannes Weidenmueller has played with the Hank Jones trio, the John Abercrombie quartet, Joe Lovano and many ...
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