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Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Michel Camilo: Playing Lecuona
by Maurizio Zerbo
Colonna sonora dell'omonimo documentario dedicato all'arte di Ernesto Lecuona, il CD in esame riunisce alcuni dei più fulgidi protagonisti della scena cubana odierna. Il fine è quello di omaggiare uno dei principali maestri della scena afrocubana del Novecento, autore di ben 400 canzoni e 153 composizioni per pianoforte. Riproposti con grande cura e spirito filologico, i ...
Pram Trio: Saga Thirteen
by Dan Bilawsky
To the casual observer, a perambulator--pram, for short--is simply what it appears to be: a baby carriage. But to the pram's inhabitant(s), it's something else entirely. To those wee babies, the carriage is, in fact, a world in motion and a home away from home that serves as a vehicle for travel to new realms. They ...
Raul Agraz: Between Brothers
by Jack Bowers
Venezuelan-born and classically trained trumpeter Raul Agraz makes an impressive North American debut with Between Brothers, a vibrant album of Latin-oriented jazz whose harmonic and rhythmic quotients are about as strong and steady as one could wish. As is the case in other contexts these days, the term “brothers" is presumably used in a metaphorical sense, ...
Nils Økland: Kjølvatn
by Karl Ackermann
The significance of the Hardanger Fiddle--a homespun Norwegian variation of the violin--is that while it is played on four strings, as a similar string instrument would be, it has four or five additional strings under the fingerboard which vibrate during playing. Though its use has been limited in modern music, Nils Økland has not only mastered ...
Alberto Vilas Quartet: Ubuntu
by James Nadal
Jazz musicians have always been in tune to external influences and open to worldly perspectives. Spanish pianist Alberto Vilas titled his release Ubuntu, based on the South African philosophy dealing with human kindness and how we become better through interaction with others. In a modern world gone mad, this is certainly a welcome idea, and the ...
Theo Ceccaldi: Petite Moutarde
by Glenn Astarita
Violinist Theo Ceccaldi is an in-demand European session artist and a prolific bandleader. He's a skillful improviser, performing for a variety of experimental labels. Yet Petite Moutarde ("Small Mustard") is his debut for the Paris, France based startup, OnJazz Records. Guitarist, composer Olivier Benoit serves as the label's artistic director, and released two superb large ensemble ...
Mike Reed's People, Places and Things: A New Kind of Dance
by Vic Albani
Il signor Mike Reed di Chicago continua a piacerci un sacco. Quello che ha in testa è “buono e bello." Forse la giusta componente genetica, forse l'aria chicagoana e il suo creativo carico di storia, forse la vera necessità di cercare e trovare innovazione, forse l'immaginifica predisposizione all'esplorazione. Mettetela come volete, fatto sta che l'intelligenza di ...
Pete Rodriguez: El Conde Negro
by Angelo Leonardi
Le splendide doti di Pete Rodriguez evidenziate due anni fa nel debutto Caminando con Papi le ritroviamo in questo nuovo lavoro, registrato ancora in quintetto, dove ritroviamo il pianista Luis Perdomo e il percussionista Robert Quintero ma si aggiungono Rudy Royston alla batteria e Ricky Rodriguez al contrabbasso, rendendo jazzisticamente avvincente la dimensione ritmica. Il risultato ...
Sari Kessler: Do Right
by Dan Bilawsky
In just under five minutes--the running time for producer/percussionist James Shipp's album-opening arrangement of “Walk On By"--Sari Kessler successfully makes the case that jazz singing is her real métier. That particular truth may not have materialized until recent times, as Kessler walked away from a career as a clinical psychologist to pursue a life in music ...
Irene Schweizer / Han Bennink: Welcome Back
by John Sharpe
For such an assuredly rhythmic player Swiss pianist Irene Schweizer shows an unexpected affinity to drummers, who feature disproportionately as partners in her discography. But even so Welcome Back constitutes only the second entry to pair Schweizer with maverick Dutch drummer Han Bennink, following their eponymous debut (Intakt, 1996), which was itself preceded by years of ...
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