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Enten Eller: Tiresia
by Alberto Bazzurro
I perché e i per come di questo nuovo album del quartetto pedemontano-friulano (nell'ultimo, ampio brano allargato a quintetto con l'ingresso del toscano Emanuele Parrini) li abbiamo raccontati con dovizia di particolari in una lunga intervista uscita all'indomani dell'incisione del lavoro, che ora ci troviamo davanti fatto e finito e su cui è di conseguenza necessario ...
NYSQ: Power of 10
by Maurizio Zerbo
Il nome, abbreviato, del New York Standards Quartet rimanda all'intento di riproporre in chiave contemporanea i classici della tradizione jazzistica. La decennale esperienza concertistica e discografica cui allude il titolo del CD sostiene un interessante vocabolario armonico, con una grande attenzione per il dettaglio e la costruzione della frase solistica. Lo dimostra emblematicamente la swingante rilettura ...
Noah Preminger: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
by Alberto Bazzurro
A un anno scarso dal precedente Pivot: Live at the 55 Bar, il trentenne tenorsassofonista newyorchese Noah Preminger torna sul luogo del delitto. Che non è la sede dell'incisione (questo, anzi, è un album in studio, benché inciso in un jazz club, il Side Door, in Connecticut), quanto il repertorio, anche stavolta estratto dalla grande letteratura ...
Rale Micic: Night Music
by Jack Bowers
On Night Music, his fourth album as leader of his own group, Rale Micic (pronounced Rah-lay Mee-cheech), a Serbian-born guitarist who has lived and gigged in New York City for more than fifteen years, pays tribute to the music of the Hungarian classical composer Bela Bartok who, as it turns out, spent his last years living ...
Richard Sussman: The Evolution Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
Arranger/conductor Gunther Schuller coined, in 1957, the term “Third Stream," to describe a musical synthesis of jazz and classical music. Early examples of this sound include Miles Davis/Gil Evans' Sketches of Spain (Columbia Records, 1961), saxophonist Stan Getz' Focus (Verve Records, 1961), and the Dizzy Gillespie/J.J. Johnson collaboration, the oddly overlooked and excellent Perceptions (Verve Records, ...
Cortex: Live In New York
by John Sharpe
Live In New York constitutes the fourth outing by young Norwegian outfit Cortex. It's one of a stream of top notch dates emerging on the Portuguese Clean Feed label by a welter of interconnected bands from the burgeoning Scandinavian scene. All four members share a common background in jazz studies from Trondheim, but are now active ...
Daniela Schächter: Vanheusenism: A Tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen
by Jerome Wilson
Italian pianist and singer Daniela Schachter goes into the “songbook" genre on this CD, doing lively spins on the work of songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, a man responsible for more hits than I realized. I knew he had written several songs for Frank Sinatra but until seeing them here, I hadn't realized he also had a ...
Haakon Graf/Erik Smith/ Per Mathisen: Sunrain
by Mark Sullivan
"Sunrain" is a common Scandinavian weather phenomenon: after weeks of rain, there are often clouds with showers pouring down as the sun peers through the other side. Keyboardist/composer Haakon Graf considers it “a metaphor for the fabric of life, a place between a smile and a tear, like my music..." His trio with drummer Erik Smith ...
Richard Bona: Heritage
by James Nadal
The roots of Afro-Cuban music can be traced to its primordial source in the West African Mandika Empire (Mali) of the 15th century. Heritage is a collaboration of Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona with the Mandekan Cubano ensemble in a musical exploration of two cultures with the common bond of Africa as a point of origin and ...
The Rite Of Trio: Getting All The Evil Of The Piston Collar!
by Budd Kopman
There is nothing to do but to dive in and experience the full force of The Rite of Trio head-on and fearlessly. With Getting All The Evil Of The Piston Collar!, guitarist Andre Bastos Silva, bassist Filipe Louro and drummer Pedro Melo Alves draw energy from the dark side and aim to conquer and ...
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