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Van Morrison: Keep Me Singing
by C. Michael Bailey
Van Morrison remains a beautifully mercurial creative force. Thirty-six discreet recordings into a 52-year career, Morrison has only Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, as poly-genre conquering peers, each of whose reach has proven to be expansive and penetrating. This is a rarified trio, to be sure, a very selective club that needs be no larger. Morrison's ...
Shabaka And The Ancestors: Wisdom Of Elders
by James Nadal
This recording is the culmination of the triangular experiences of tenor man Shabaka Hutchings and his personal destiny. Born in London, his family relocated back to their native Barbados, where Hutchings was raised in a musical environment until his teen years. Returning to London, he became a fixture on the free jazz scene, and while on ...
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials: The Big Sound of Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
by Jim Trageser
For more than 25 years, Lil' Ed Williams and his three-piece Blues Imperials have been as rock-steady in their roster makeup as they have musically. Since the late 1980s, singer-guitarist Williams has been backed by Michael Garrett (second guitar), James “Pookie" Young (bass) and Kelly Littleton (drums). That kind of longevity in a band ...
Michael Blanco: Spirit Forward
by Dan Bilawsky
Spirit Forward carries several connotations in its name and sound. First there's the overt reference to bartender terminology and the way it connects to the music presented by the feisty and flexible foursome of bassist Michael Blanco, saxophonist John Ellis, pianist Kevin Hays, and drummer Clarence Penn. A spirit-forward cocktail is one which focuses on enhancing ...
Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau: Nearness
by Doug Collette
Brilliant musicians don't always make brilliant music when they collaborate and while that's sometimes been the case with pianist Brad Mehldau and saxophonist Joshua Redman, on the duo concert recordings that make up the appropriately-titled Nearness, they live up to their elevated pedigree. And that's individual as well as shared cachet: Mehldau spent a fair amount ...
Eden Bareket Trio: Choice
by Dave Wayne
Baritone saxophone specialists, like their soprano-playing counterparts, seem a breed apart from their “normal" alto-and tenor- playing brethren. In a world where it's increasingly difficult to stand out from a gaggle of technically awesome young saxophonists, one can almost predict that more players will be specializing in these “second string" instruments. If Choice by Argentinian bari-specialist ...
Mike LeDonne Groover Quartet: That Feelin'
by Jack Bowers
Mike LeDonne's splendid Groover Quartet has earned a cozy groove for itself, somewhere between fresh from the oven and the halcyon days of organ combos led by Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, Jimmy McGriff, Groove Holmes, Shirley Scott, Don Patterson and others. While embracing their essential groundwork on the one hand, LeDonne moves steadily forward with the ...
Denny Zeitlin: Early Wayne
by Maurizio Zerbo
Il titolo di questo album Early Wayne è leggermente fuorviante. Le composizioni proposte costituiscono il cuore dell'estetica shorteriana, non soltanto gli esiti giovanili. La musica proposta denota un'approfondita ricerca sulle strutture e le armonie originarie, di cui vengono tracciati a tratti nuovi sentieri melodici inaspettati. Non è sempre automatico che la rilettura di ...
Enrico Pieranunzi: My Songbook
by Luigi Sforza
La frequentazione di Enrico Pieranunzi con il mondo della canzone risale al 1979, al primo incontro tra il pianista ed il trombettista Chet Baker. Nel corso della sua carriera il muscista romano ha poi approfondito con varie interpreti femminili le potenzialità insite nell'universo canzone. In My Songbook la presenza della voce di Simona Severini ...
Sirius Quartet: Paths Become Lines
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un malese, un tedesco e due statunitensi compongono questo ragguardevole quartetto d'archi, di conformazione classica ma con precisi intenti di gestione totale della musica suonata. Tutti i brani compresi in questo CD sono infatti a firma dei membri dell'ensemble, a partire dalla titletrack, che lo apre, mettendo immediatamente in evidenza belle timbriche e relative dinamiche, vive, ...
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