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Lucio Capece / Kevin Drumm / Radu Malfatti: The Volume Surrounding the Task
by John Eyles
The Volume Surrounding the Task was recorded live at Q-O2 in Brussels in January 2011 during a tour of France, Belgium and Switzerland by the international trio of Argentine-born Berlin resident Lucio Capece on bass clarinet and preparations, Chicago-based Kevin Drumm on electronics, and Austrian trombonist Radu Malfatti. The music consists of the unbroken title track ...
Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo: Resiliency
by Alberto Bazzurro
Fra reminiscenze dolphyane, in particolare quando imbraccia il clarinetto basso, o piuttosto riconducibili all'Original Quartet ornettiano, per l'estetica complessiva, Alberto Pinton si ricollega in maniera nient'affatto supina o scontata alle fonti di quell'avanguardia storica (nonché, ovviamente, storicizzata) a cui evidentemente sente di appartenere. Dei sei brani complessivi, ripresi nel corso di un'esibizione al ...
Marco Giongrandi Soares Quartet: Departures
by Stefano Merighi
Dedicato alla figura e alla poetica di Antonio Tabucchi (che si specchia in quella di Pessoa o del suo eteronimo, Soares, nome del gruppo), questo esordio discografico parla già un linguaggio maturo e racconta di un affiatamento umano ed artistico sicuramente palpabile. Al di là dei riferimenti letterari e dell'obiettivo di plasmare le atmosfere ...
Dick Sisto/Steve Allee Quartet: Earth Tones
by Dan Bilawsky
While Earth Tones is the first album credited to the Dick Sisto/Steve Allee Quartet, it's not this foursome's first rodeo. This group has been at it as a working band for quite a while now, and it previously released Spirit of Life (Jazzen, 2013)--a date under Sisto's name that concentrates on the work of John Coltrane, ...
Dom Minasi & Jack DeSalvo: Soldani Dieci Anni
by Mark Sullivan
Guitarist Dom Minasi is known as an experimentalist and free player, so there is much in this set of acoustic duets with fellow guitarist Jack DeSalvo that will confound expectations. Opener “The Indelible Delible" is a free improvisation with the expected outside playing and flurries of notes--but there is also some delicate textural playing. Then Minasi's ...
Yelena Eckemoff Quartet: Leaving Everything Behind
by Mark Sullivan
Pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff has restlessly explored a new theme with each new album, with a shifting group of musicians. The central event behind the album title Leaving Everything Behind was her departure from the Soviet Union in 1991. She and her husband came to the United States to start a new life, having literally left everything ...
Pedrito Martinez Group: Habana Dreams
by James Nadal
The African drums and rhythms that originated in Yorubaland, have been an integral part of the Santeria religion in Cuba, and a profound influence on the rumbero percussionists on the island. Pedrito Martinez is a premier conga master who hails from the Cayo Hueso barrio in La Habana, and is also an akpwon (lead singer) and ...
Andy Jaffe Nonet + 4: Arc
by Alberto Bazzurro
Gran bell'ensemble, quello messo assieme dal veterano Andy Jaffe per questo suo ambizioso progetto. Ne fanno parte nomi altisonanti, più un quartetto d'archi (di Taiwan) che si unisce qua e là (per esempio già nell'iniziale “Arc") al nonetto più squisitamente jazzistico. Il materiale posto sul piatto è ottimamente oliato e confezionato, a trazione ...
Phil Haynes: Sanctuary
by Neri Pollastri
Uscito nel 2015 ma registrato a Berlino nel 1999, presso gli studi della SFB e con il supporto di Gebhard Ullmann, questo disco documenta l'attività in solo di Phil Haynes, un tipo di performance piuttosto rara per un batterista ma che al contrario egli ha sempre portato avanti nel corso della sua lunga carriera.
Bob Mintzer: All L.A. Band
by Jack Bowers
Even though saxophonist Bob Mintzer's name rests alone atop the marquee, the All L.A. Band is actually a mutual collaboration with acclaimed drummer Peter Erskine, one of Mintzer's colleagues in the Jazz Studies department at the University of Southern California. Besides occupying the drum chair, Erskine produced the album, while Mintzer composed and arranged its ten ...
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