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Nicolas Bearde: Invitation
by C. Michael Bailey
Bay-area vocalist Nicolas Bearde belongs to an exclusive club: male jazz singers. I suspect, being scientifically minded, that submissions from male jazz singers make up approximately 10% of the music I receive for review. While in may be impolitic to discuss, it remains a fact. Not only are there few male jazz singers, there a fewer ...
David Krakauer: The Big Picture
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il tema di questo album, come il titolo fa intendere, è la musica da film. Il materiale, ovviamente rimodulato in stile-Krakauer, proviene, in ordine di apparizione, da Cabaret di Bob Fosse (musica di John Kander), ovviamente La vita è bella di Benigni (e Piovani), Midnight in Paris, Radio Days e Amore e guerra di Woody Allen ...
Nick Sanders Trio: You Are a Creature
by Maurizio Zerbo
Prodotto da Fred Hersch, il You Are a Creature mette in mostra un trio davvero ragguardevole nell'esprimere una variegata sintesi del piano jazz moderno. Affiancato da una ritmica eccellente, Nick Sanders esprime un raffinato pensiero musicale al servizio di un gustoso percorso modern mainstream. Lo dimostra la traccia numero due, elevabile a simbolo di una espressività ...
Ronan Guilfoyle: Hands
by Ian Patterson
In a thirty-year career as a leader, Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle has built an international reputation as a rhythmically advanced musician and a sophisticated, challenging composer. From indo-jazz suites to contemporary classical music (composed and improvised) and from extended works inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce to suites for jazz guitar trio ...
Raya Brass Band: Raya
by Mark Sullivan
From the sound you would probably place Brooklyn's Raya Brass Band in some other Brooklyn--one located somewhere in the Balkans. Their bright, joyful music is never far from the traditional wedding music of the Balkans and Greece. It's dance music, grooves like crazy, and is just plain fun. You may not spontaneously jump up and dance, ...
Glauco Lima: Once Upon A Time
by Geannine Reid
Brazil, perhaps more than any other country, has embraced jazz, the sound of 1950s jazz or the cool school as some like to call it, and the music world has benefited from this love affair. This music has had a huge influence on the evolution of the bossa nova, and now latin jazz has cemented itself ...
Giovanni Mirabassi Quartet: No Way Out
by Neri Pollastri
Dopo Viva V.E.R.D.I., nel quale il suo trio veniva affiancato da un'ampia orchestra d'archi, Giovanni Mirabassi si ripresenta ancora assieme a Gianluca Renzi e Lukmil Perez Herrera, allargando stavolta la formazione con l'inserimento dello strepitoso vibrafonista americano Stefon Harris, erede dei fasti di Bobby Hutcherson. E proprio ai quartetti con vibrafono degli anni sessanta ...
Karolina Strassmayer and Drori Mondlak: Of Mystery and Beauty
by Hrayr Attarian
Over the past decade and a half Austrian saxophonist Karolina Strassmayer has established herself as a superbly consummate musician. Her multifaceted compositions are always subtly, engagingly inventive and brim with brilliant wit and lyricism. As an improviser she plays with a reserved intensity and a captivating and suave spontaneity. Her seventh release Of Mystery and Beauty ...
Greg Abate & Phil Woods: Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's
by Dan McClenaghan
The legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods' (1931-2015) health was failing at the time Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's was recorded, but you never know it by listening to the crisp delivery, the vitality of a hot bebop band playing in the mode of the iconic altoist Charlie Parker. Saxophonist Greg Abate joins Woods in the front ...
Myra Melford + Ben Goldberg: Dialogue
by Mark F. Turner
In their first duo release Dialogue avant-garde jazz pianist Myra Melford and clarinetist Ben Goldberg's two instruments move in tandem yet independently, complimenting one another while exhibiting distinct qualities. At the forefront of open-minded music, the two have worked together in other ensembles yet performed sporadically as a duo since 2008. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Melford ...
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