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Elliot Galvin Trio: Punch
by Roger Farbey
Punch is the follow-up to British pianist Elliot Galvin's debut album Dreamland, released in 2014 and his first for Edition Records. The title track opens with an ancient recording of a Punch and Judy show which forms a recurring leitmotif within the number and at a few other points throughout the album. The ensuing trio's performance ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans
by Dan McClenaghan
One jazz music's premier soprano saxophonists, Jane Ira Bloom, crafted a career-defining recording with Sixteen Sunsets (Outline Records, 2013). So how does she follow that up? With an alteration of her quartet trajectory. Bloom's recorded output has consisted, over a career that began in the late 90s, of a series of mostly quartet sets, featuring terrific ...
Elektra Kurtis: Bridges From The East
by Geannine Reid
Elektra Kurtis is an incredibly talented composer and violinist; her album, Bridges from the East, celebrates the composer's Greek, Mediterranean and Southern European heritage. Her compositions are deeply personal with elements referencing different music styles and origins, both reflecting the sounds of Eastern Europe and North Africa. The European influences are by 20th Century classical composers ...
Jon Madof: Blivet
by Luca Muchetti
Può ferire, può far sanguinare se maneggiato da mani incaute questo Blivet di Jon Madof, chitarrista abituato a frequentare la corte di John Zorn e Marc Ribot. Catchy fin dal primo brano: “Dime a Dozen," fantasmagoria funk che trasuda anni Settanta, è la luccicante apertura che, chiusa l'ubriacatura di chitarre in wha, si allontana senza farlo ...
Peter Kuhn, Dave Sewelson, Gerald Cleaver, Larry Roland: Our Earth / Our World
by Alberto Bazzurro
Parte subito lancia in resta questa lunga (almeno quanto a durate dei singoli episodi, svarianti dagli 11 ai 25 minuti e rotti) impro session, che coinvolge musicisti rodati senza peraltro ascendere, se non a sprazzi, a risultati pari alle attese. Come fin troppo spesso accade in frangenti del genere, infatti, sembra mancare una reale linea-guida, cosicché ...
Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain V
by Karl Ackermann
Nate Wooley has a fairly traditional early background having played trumpet in his father's big band as a teenager. His departure from convention was quite radical as he went on to work with the likes of John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Ken Vandermark and Evan Parker. Wooley is one of an innovative strain of trumpeters who view ...
Tobias Meier: Interesting
by John Eyles
Saxophonist Tobias Meier has figured large in the short history of Alex Huber's Wide Ear Records; of the label's nineteen releases to date, Meier has now featured on nine of them--more than Huber himself. Interesting is the second of those nine on which Meier is credited as leader, fitting as he seems to have multi-tasked--composing, playing ...
Liquid Trio: Marianne
by Mark Corroto
The free jazz of the Liquid Trio might best be described as quicksilver, a sort of liquified metal. In the context of music making, their ability to move and change shape instantly makes them difficult to contain. Marianne, the follow up to Primer Dia i Última Nit (Sirulita, 2013), is the second album released by this ...
Michael Jefry Stevens: Brass Tactics
by Budd Kopman
Anyone remotely interested “creative improvised music" (aka jazz) that intersects with the Classical aesthetic should take the time to listen closely to pianist Michael Jefry Stevens' latest release Brass Tactics. Stevens is a thinking man's player mostly known for his work in the Fonda/Stevens group (see Folk Five) and Conference Call, (with Gebhard Ullmann) ...
Yves Robert Trio: Inspired
by Alberto Bazzurro
Registrato (febbraio 2014) e prodotto in Ungheria (BMC sta per Budapest Music Center) col patrocinio dell'Istituto Francese attivo nella capitale magiara, questo album riporta sotto i riflettori un musicista che, con gruppi propri o accanto ai vari Sclavis e Portal, aveva convogliato non poche attenzioni su di sé all'inizio degli anni Novanta per poi, almeno dalle ...
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