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Michael Spiro/Wayne Wallace: Canto América
by James Nadal
The historical evolution of the Caribbean Basin and specifically the Greater Antilles, has been over five hundred years in the making. The triangular connections between Europe, Africa, and the New World with its ensuing social and economic constraints, established the conditions for an innovative culture in the region. The enculturation process led to the creolization of ...
Moppa Elliott: Still, Up In The Air
by Mark Sullivan
In his usual role as bassist and leader of the jazz group Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Moppa Elliott focuses on composing and bandleading. So his first solo double-bass album represents a real departure. In many ways it resembles band mate Jon Irabagon's recent solo sopranino saxophone album Inaction is an Action: an often abstract ...
Richard Nant / Alan Plachta: Un Viaje
by Jakob Baekgaard
Things are happening right now in Argentina. There is a jazz scene that just seems to keep on growing and growing. Fortunately, international collaboration has also started to happen and Argentinian musicians are travelling around the world to share their special take on the jazz tradition. For instance, cutting edge pianist Paula Shocron has recently been ...
The Brothers Brown: The Brothers Brown: Dusty Road
by C. Michael Bailey
There is really only so much that can be done with the traditional 12-bar blues form. It was that limitation that helped give rise to rhythm & blues and soul music and cross-pollinated jazz and country & western. While fun to consider, it is a fool's endeavor to try and draw a straight line through these ...
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: I Long To See You
by Dan Bilawsky
If ever there was an eternal explorer, it's Charles Lloyd. This inquisitive soul has made a career out of surveying new frontiers, both within himself and beyond the borders of his own being. He's taken every opportunity to peer and travel into the unknown, allowing only the sound and the spirits to serve as his guides. ...
Atlantico: En Rouge
by Mark Sullivan
Atlantico is a new band co-lead by French jazz pianist Sébastien Paindestre and U.S. reed and woodwind player Dave Schroeder (each contributes four compositions). Paindestre and Schroeder met in NYU Paris in 2012 during recording for the TV show “jazz rendez-vous" where they played together for the first time. In 2014 they reconvened in New York ...
Jazz Funk Soul (Loeb, Harp & Lorber): More Serious Business
by Jeff Winbush
Let's get two things out of the way first. First thing is Jazz Funk Soul is an awful name for a band. It sounds like the way records were categorized in a record store back in the Dark Ages when such things as record stores existed. Second thing is the second Jazz Funk Soul joint, More ...
The Andrew Allen Trio: Live! from the Cantina: A Star Wars Jazz Tribute
by Jim Olin
The universal appeal of the Star Wars soundtrack cannot be denied. It has become so iconic that any reimagining of its music is sure to be highly scrutinized. The Andrew Allen Trio took a big risk in putting a jazz spin to the Star Wars soundtrack but it has paid off significantly. Their new album Live! ...
Dave Ballou: Solo Trumpet
by Giuseppe Segala
Dave Ballou si inserisce in modo del tutto personale in quel filone di trombettisti che indaga il proprio strumento in senso lato, ne trae sonorità inedite attraverso lo studio di articolazioni e procedure peculiari, ne cerca un ampliamento del vocabolario e delle espressività. Un filone che, in senso cronologico, ha origine con Bill Dixon, passa per ...
Ivo Perelman: Villa Lobos Suite
by Maurizio Zerbo
L'arte del depistaggio, secondo un sax e due viole. Si potrebbe definire così questo avventuroso CD, che già nel titolo tende a spiazzare l'ascoltatore. Questa inusuale disposizione timbrica dà luogo ad un percorso destrutturante, che peraltro non prevede titoli per le composizioni proposte. In primo piano l'improvvisazione atematica con libere cellule melodiche, che ...
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