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Duane Eubanks/Eric McPherson/Dezron Douglas: Live At Maxwell's
by Budd Kopman
DE3 is a cooperative trio whose name is an acronym for its members: bassist Dezron Douglas, drummer Eric McPherson both of whom came from trumpeter Duane Eubanks's, quintet (which includes saxophonist Abraham Burton and Marc Cary on keyboards). Engineer Jimmy Katz, who recorded Noah Preminger's trio on Pivot: Live At The 55 Bar so ...
Nels Cline: Lovers
by Mark Sullivan
No one can accuse guitarist Nels Cline of being predictable. He has recorded with his avant-garde trio the Nels Cline Singers most consistently (with bassist Devin Hoff and drummer Scott Amendola), but also led larger groups, such as the one on New Monastery (Cryptogramophone, 2006). More recently there was his duet with guitarist Julian Lage on ...
Franco Cerri: Barber Shop 2
by Angelo Leonardi
Franco Cerri è uno dei pochi jazzisti italiani che mette tutti d'accordo, critica e pubblico: un magnifico artista e un uomo d'innata simpatia, che ha divulgato il jazz in Italia quando non esistevano i festival estivi e questa musica era un fenomeno marginale. I novant'anni d'età e i settanta di carriera artistica sono stati ...
Michel Balatti: The Northern Breeze
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il flautista genovese Michel Balatti, membro di gruppi assai rinomati in ambito folk quali Birkin Tree e Liguriani, dedica questo primo album a suo nome a una perlustrazione decisamente accurata del repertorio popolare irlandese, antico ma anche a noi più prossimo, senza disdegnare brani americani e svedesi (uno a testa) e un poker di sue composizioni ...
Shirantha Beddage: Momentum
by Franz A. Matzner
The baritone sax is an underutilized part of the jazz arsenal, at least as a lead, soloist instrument. Its deep sonority tends to tilt its use either toward ensemble settings or the cooler styles of soloist work, following the trajectory of Gerry Mulligan's early innovations on the instrument. With Momentum, Canadian composer and multi-instrumentalist Shirantha Beddage ...
Don Preston / Jeff Boynton / Philip Mantione: TriAngular Bent
by Dave Wayne
A lot of artists Don Preston's age, with a similar musical pedigree, are revered as “national treasures." For whatever reason, this hasn't yet happened for the veteran sonic explorer, still going strong after 84 years on the planet. Perpetually a “Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition," he's most frequently remembered for his groundbreaking work with Frank Zappa. ...
Jason Stein/Paul Giallorenzo/Frank Rosaly: Hearts & Minds
by Mark Corroto
When the Chicago trio of Jason Stein, Paul Giallorenzo, and Frank Rosaly, known as Hearts & Minds, plays music Sun Ra smiles from somewhere interplanetary. Not that the mighty Ra favored small groups, he mostly worked with his large Arkestra, rather, it's that the wellspring for this 21st century music are his concepts and instrumentation. Sun ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans
by Ian Patterson
Three years on from the ballad standards of Sixteen Sunsets (Outline, 2013), Jane Ira Bloom--one of the few specialist soprano saxophonists--returns with a lustrous collection of originals. At one extreme, the trio of Bloom, Mark Helias and Bobby Previte fairly bristles with collective energy; at the other, it seduces with caressing, impressionistic lyricism. At whatever tempi, ...
Rosario Giuliani: The Hidden Side
by Luigi Sforza
Non privo di belle melodie né di pregievoli momenti ben strutturati, The Hidden Side rappresenta la sintesi perfetta tra due modi di intendere la musica. Da una parte la logica giudiziosità dell'ordine sonoro -in cui ogni elemento funziona perchè strutturato e rispondente ai principi della pertinenza alla forma chiusa e all'armonia di riferimento, così come è ...
Black Art Jazz Collective: Black Art Jazz Collective - Presented By The Side Door Jazz Club
by Maurizio Zerbo
Il nome del gruppo rispecchia paradigmaticamente gli intenti di questo CD. Tra omaggi a politici e jazzisti, le otto tracce proposte celebrano in chiave modern mainstream la composita cultura afroamericana del Novecento. Orientati sul versante postboppistico, gli assoli brillano per fluidità di fraseggio e tecnica sopraffina, riscattando ampiamente la rigidità del canone. Si impongono esposizioni avvincenti ...
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