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Slivovitz: All You Can Eat
by Dave Wayne
Freely grabbing inspiration from all manner of styles, the Neapolitan band Slivovitz functions as a high- efficiency musical omnivore, digesting and reworking different aspects of seemingly disparate raw materials into a seamless, organic whole. All You Can Eat, an appropriate title for the band's fourth long player (and their third for MoonJune), doesn't appear to be ...
Alyson Cambridge: Until Now
by C. Michael Bailey
Soprano Alyson Cambridge's opera bona fides are easily recognized on Until Now. Opera chops translated into jazz often end up as effective as the translation at the center of the movie The Fly (20th Century Fox, 1958 and 20th Century F, 1986). Yes, it is just that scary and often misguided. But here is the rub. ...
Roxy Coss: Restless Idealism
by Dan McClenaghan
Upcoming saxophonist Roxy Coss opens her splendid Origin Records debut, Restless Idealism with a traditional approach on her original tune, “Don't Cross the Coss." It's a happy and assertive sound, and when she takes her first solo, her robust tone brings Coleman Hawkins to mind. Coss and her band, churning along on a well-lubricated drive train ...
Kitt Lyles: Real Talk
by Jack Bowers
Real Talk is the debut album for young South Carolina-bred bassist Kitt Lyles who earned a degree in Jazz Studies from Northwestern University in 2013. As all the compositions are Lyles,' its success rests as much on his skills as a writer as his serving as a beacon for the sextet's able rhythm section. How does ...
Cyrille Aimee: Let’s Get Lost
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Cyrille Aimee is the face of post-modernity. She is the eclectic intersection of French, Dominican, and Roma genes and cultures. The result is brilliantly polyglot, the beautiful blending of goodness. This whispering description could just as easily apply to Aimee's music. Let's Get Lost boasts the same eclectic origins as the singer. For this current ...
Enrico Pieranunzi: Proximity
by Budd Kopman
Enrico Pieranunzi is the senior statesman of mainstream jazz piano in Italy. His recording career goes back to 1975, with more than forty albums on such labels as Soul Note, Enja, Egea and currently CAM Jazz. His music is romantic, lyrical mainstream using lush arrangements and harmonies. The current group could be termed his “American" quartet, ...
Mike Reed's People, Places and Things: A New Kind of Dance
by Glenn Astarita
You can always count on drummer, bandleader Mike Reed to jar your neural network on a per-album basis. Indeed, he's a propulsive force; an acute progressive jazz visionary, and a luminary in Chicago's forward-moving improvisational dynamic, while also hosting and promoting jazz/improvisation festivals in the Windy City. Otherwise, his People Places & Things unit strikes again ...
Dino Betti van der Noot: Notes Are But Wind
by Neri Pollastri
Torna con un nuovo lavoro orchestrale del suo genere Dino Betti van der Noot, probabilmente il nostro miglior compositore attualmente in attività, autore di album che, negli ultimi anni, hanno ripetutamente sbancato le classifiche del jazz italiano. E neppure questo Notes Are But Wind -titolo che, come quello del suo ultimo brano, “The Rest Is Music," ...
Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey: First Duo Concert
by AAJ Staff
Registrato nella prestigiosa Wigmore Hall di Londra, questo concerto del giugno del 1974 costituisce il primo in duo tra Anthony Braxton e Derek Bailey (nonché la prima performance ufficiale del multi strumentista di Chicago in terra d'Albione). Si erano conosciuti pochi anni prima, sempre a Londra e nel 1973 il chitarrista inglese era comparso ...
Bob Wijnen: NYC Unforeseen
by Dan Bilawsky
The first minute of Dutch pianist Bob Wijnen's debut album is very telling, but not because of what he does. Rather, it's what Wijnen doesn't do that sets these opening moments apart: Instead of announcing his arrival by hitting on all cylinders and showcasing himself, he hands this prime piece of real estate to drummer Billy ...
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