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Lucas Rochaix Quinteto: Manovuotometro
by Mark Sullivan
Argentinian guitarist Lucas Rochaix leads a quintet through his strong debut recording on Manovuotometro. Rochaix composed the entire program, making an impression as both composer and performer. He favors a clean jazz guitar tone--reminiscent of someone like Peter Bernstein--but his music is more about making complete compositional statements than showcasing his guitar playing. His quintet is ...
Billy Jenkins: True Love Collection
by Roger Farbey
A few facts to dispense with first. True Love Collection now reissued as a download-only release, coincided with this album, originally released in 1998, being voted number 36 in BBC Music Jazz's 50 greatest jazz albums, announced in mid-November 2016 to coincide with the start of the London Jazz Festival. It's also been re- mixed and ...
Leonardo Suarez Paz and Fernando Suarez Paz: Escualo
by Duncan Heining
Leonardo Suarez Paz is surely now the torchbearer of Argentine Tango and the legacy of its greatest composer, Astor Piazzolla. His father Fernando Suarez Paz, of course, played with Piazzolla for many years and father and son have often performed his and works by other composers of tango. It is our fortune that Suarez Paz hijo ...
Ikarus: Chronosome
by Budd Kopman
Drummer Ramón Oliveras is the composer and leader of Ikarus and Chronosome is this band's second release, after the powerful and stunning Echo . There is no sophomore jinx here, as this recording starts off where the earlier one begins only to fly higher and delve deeper while still creating immense physical soundspaces. The ...
Manolo Cabras Quartet: Melys in Diotta
by Vincenzo Roggero
Di Manolo Cabras, contrabbassista cagliaritano dalle eccellenti frequentazioni -Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Toots Thielemans, Marshall Allen, Mark Murphy, Eric Vermeulen -e da oltre un decennio presenza attiva della vivace scena belga, avevamo apprezzato le qualità di ispirato leader nonché di ottimo solista nell'album di debutto I Wouldn't Be Sure registrato con il gruppo Basic Borg. Sempre ...
Martin Leiton: Poetry of Sound
by Neri Pollastri
Bel trio spagnolo pianoless, questa formazione è guidata dal contrabbassista Martín Leiton, autore di tutte le composizioni, e testimonia la vivacità creativa di una scena da noi non molto conosciuta qual è quella iberica. Vi si ascolta una musica piuttosto rarefatta, sospesa quasi in un'atmosfera di pathos, nella quale il suono la fa da ...
Jordan Young: Jazz Jukebox
by C. Andrew Hovan
One of the strengths of Marc Free's Posi-Tone imprimatur is that it is responsible for introducing us to many great and upcoming jazz artists. Drummer Jordan Young is a Detroit native who has studied with some of the best of the modern-day masters and is making a name for himself in New York. His sophomore release ...
Raphael Malfliet: Noumenon
by Karl Ackermann
Belgian-born bassist Raphael Malfliet graduated from the Conservatory in Antwerp in 2014, moving to New York shortly afterward. Though the music on his debut trio album Noumenon is outside of well-defined genres, his influences of modern classical and improvisation are evident from the start. One is as likely to hear traces of Elliott Sharp as they ...
Joe McPhee: Flowers
by John Sharpe
Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee has a long history of solo albums stretching back to Tenor (Hat Hut, 1976). Furthermore he's one of the few improvisers still to regularly perform and record in that format. Flowers, his eleventh unaccompanied release, was recorded at the Jazz ao Centro Festival in Coimbra in 2009 and rescued from obscurity by the ...
Mike Westbrook: Paris
by Duncan Heining
Listen to any number of Mike Westbrook records and you might want to ask, “Why doesn't he take a solo?" Aside from the occasional piano cadenza, Westbrook seems to prefer to let his compositions do the talking, ably aided by trustworthy musical confederates. Westbrook celebrated his 80th birthday in March 2016 and Paris is ...
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