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Rachelle Garniez: Who's Counting
by Luca Muchetti
Malinconica e ironica, appassionata e legata a un songwriting che riporta dalla sua New York alle strade di Parigi, spesso evocate da una fisarmonica che non fa rimpiangere la scelta, talvolta estrema, di arrangiamenti ridotti all'osso. Rachelle Garniez torna con un album fra i migliori mai pubblicati della cantante statunitense. Un disco che ...
Tom Rainey Trio: Hotel Grief
by Stefano Merighi
Se c'è Tom Rainey dietro i tamburi, state certi che la musica palpita, veleggia, s'impenna. Che sia un piano-trio jazz (Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch, Kris Davis) o un gruppo a composizione stratificata e complessa (Tim Berne), oppure un gioco di libera improvvisazione (i Lark, Tony Malaby), il drumming di Rainey è garanzia di sorpresa, tensione drammatica, ...
Michael Dease: Father Figure
by Dan Bilawsky
Paying it forward is simply a given in jazz. Long before the music was welcomed in ivory tower institutions and codified for classroom consumption at all levels, seasoned musicians were sharing their hard-earned knowledge with aspiring youngsters on bandstands and in basements, serving as guides, exemplars, nurturers, and teachers all at once. Those experienced players were ...
Andreas Loven: District Six
by Mark Sullivan
Norwegian pianist/composer Andreas Loven has an especially compelling personal history. In his early twenties he left Oslo and an engineering career to move to South Africa to pursue jazz. Based in Cape Town, he has since performed extensively all over South Africa. This dual background gives his music a unique voice, one with both European and ...
Evan Parker / Seymour Wright: Tie the Stone to the Wheel
by John Eyles
The five tracks on Tie the Stone to the Wheel were recorded at two duo gigs which saxophonists Evan Parker and Seymour Wright played in London and Derby, on consecutive Sundays in October 2014, at the Kernel Brewery and the Derby Theatre Studio. Remarkably, at the Derby gig, it was revealed that when Parker had played ...
Avi Darash: Impermanence
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Avi Darash, home-based now in the Netherlands, broods beautifully on “The Day After," the third tune on his CD Impermanence. His trio mates--bassist Avri Borochov and drummer Ofri Nehemya--offer an intricate yet subtle accompaniment, on a sound that brings the Brad Mehldau Trio to mind, with its floating momentum, cerebral atmosphere and subtle melodic development. ...
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: EARS
by Rob Caldwell
In trying to describe Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's music it occurred to me that it sounds like music that would be made by computers if computers ever evolve to posses their own intelligence and emotions. But that doesn't quite hit it... perhaps a better way would be to say that it's some of the most organic electronic ...
Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Musings
by Dan Bilawsky
If you open the packaging for this album, you'll encounter a picture of Christopher Zuar that initially seems to touch on a theme of isolation. Shadows and light play against the wall behind him, but it's Zuar himself, sitting and staring into the distance over his piano, that really draws the eyes in. After looking at ...
Jim "Kimo" West: Guitar Stories: Slack Key & Beyond
by Mark Sullivan
Guitar Stories presents a lovely, diverse collection of music centered around Kimo West's composing and excellent guitar playing. West is a proponent of the Hawaiian slack key guitar style, a fingerstyle playing technique using various open tunings. He credits the name of the tuning used on each track, as well as including a list spelling out ...
Rodolfo Zuniga Surfaces: North Star
by Edward Blanco
Costa Rican native and Miami-based jazz drummer, Rodolfo Zuniga is a world-class drummer who has performed with some of the best artists in the business, served as a sideman on various recordings and can be found performing throughout the South Florida area as a much in-demand drummer. As well as being a fixture in the areas ...
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