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Nuova Camerata: Chant
by Nicola Negri
Free improvisation and contemporary music share many aspects, and the goal is the same--to avoid the beaten path of established musical idioms. Of course, sometimes they can both become actual styles, somewhat conforming to predictable strategies, but the most successful instances are those that keep the ambiguity intact, presenting the ideal of “new music" in its ...
Camilla George Quartet: Isang
by Roger Farbey
Isang is the long overdue debut album for alto saxophonist Camilla George, a graduate of London's renowned Trinity College of Music. George has worked with several leading bands including Tomorrow's Warriors, Nu Civilisation Orchestra and Jazz Jamaica. She's led her own quartet since 2014 and her love of African and Western music is influenced by her ...
Brian Simpson: Persuasion
by Jeff Winbush
There's jazz that is edgy, startling, daring, confrontational and demands attention be paid. It grabs you by the ears and pulls you close and won't let go. Then there's a kinda/sorta jazz where all the edges have been sanded off, there's no chances taken, no unexpected or startling moments, and nothing is ever at risk. If ...
Daniele D'Agaro, Giovanni Maier, Zlatko Kaućić: Disorder at the Border Plays Ornette
by Nicola Negri
Ornette Coleman's compositions have been reinterpreted many times and by all kind of musicians, often with less than optimal results. His pieces, deceptively simple on the surface, have always some aspects that are quite difficult to grasp, and they are so personal that sometimes they seem to work only if the author (or some of his ...
Jack Lee: Anthology - Bigger Than Life
by Doug Collette
Just one cut shy of two dozen tracks comprise the Jack Lee Anthology Bigger Than Life, but the single CD nevertheless lives up to its title if only in regards to the artist's reputation (plus the fact these recordings have not been readily available since their original issue thirty-plus years ago). As one third of the ...
Brainchildren of Xenog: Brain//Child
by Geno Thackara
The Dutch outfit Brain//Child seems like the progeny of many different parents: besides its actual members of course, it shows touches of a range of free players, from Ornette Coleman up to current contemporaries like Ingrid Laubrock with maybe a hint of experimental laptop-ist Ikue Mori. Three members are credited with electronics in addition to instruments, ...
Audrey Silver: Very Early
by Dan Bilawsky
There's immediate comfort in encountering Audrey Silver's music for the first time. Her voice is an open invitation, an instrument of confession and creation that immediately transports you to someplace else. That's evident from her first utterances through her last words on Very Early. In putting together this program, Silver thought long and ...
Laura Dubin Trio: Live At The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival
by Roger Farbey
Despite the cartoonish CD cover illustration, depicting a smiling Laura Dubin seated at a grand piano, and perhaps giving the false impression that this is a jokey album, the music surely proves otherwise. This ambitious double album of a live performance on July 2nd, 2016 contains many surprising and engaging pieces. Opening with Steve Allen's “This ...
Miles Davis: Panthalassa: The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974
by Sacha O'Grady
For anyone unfamiliar with his work, Bill Laswell is something of a producer's producer, who has worked with a wide array of artists ranging from John Lydon to Whitney Houston (though not on the same record one would assume). At some point Laswell miraculously managed to convince the powers that be to hand over copies of ...
Hyper + Amir ElSaffar: Saadif
by Vincenzo Roggero
Hyper (ossia Nicola Fazzini al sax, Alessandro Fedrigo alla chitarra basso acustica, Luca Colussi alla batteria) sono i tre quarti dell'XY Quartet (completato dal vibrafonista Saverio Tasca) e il + dopo la sigla non è un semplice simbolo matematico ma apertura verso musicisti che vogliano in qualche modo relazionarsi con le dinamiche, le visioni e la ...
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