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Kenny Clarke: The Golden 8
by Greg Simmons
The first time I dropped a needle on a Music Matters 33 rpm test-pressing of Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland's The Golden 8 I was surprised to hear something quite unusual: a Blue Note record that was clearly not recorded in Hackensack. With only a few exceptions, most Blue Note records of the 1950s ...
Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio: Moments In Trio, Volume One
by Edward Blanco
Pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse presents his second album as leader with the bold Moments In Trio, Volume One providing another fresh set of innovative new originals continuing the personal musical journey he began documenting with his highly-acclaimed debut Here From There (Fresh Sound Records, 2015). Together with new fellow band mates Jerad Lippi on drums and Rick ...
Ligro: Dictionary 3
by Dave Wayne
Ligro is yet another one of MoonJune Records' stellar discoveries from Indonesia. One says “Indonesia" with caution, as each member of this supremely energetic fusion power trio hails from a culturally different part the vast region: bassist, occasional pianist, and chief composer Adi Darmawan is from Madura, drummer Gusti Hendy is from South Kalimantan and guitarist ...
John Abercrombie: The First Quartet
by Mark Sullivan
In many ways guitarist John Abercrombie's recordings with his first quartet represent his real coming of age, as a jazz guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He already had a substantial ECM discography behind him, including his fusion debut Timeless (1975); the overdubbed solo record Characters (1977); the first trio with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, the self-titled ...
William Tatge + Last Call: Borderlands
by Stefano Merighi
Il pianista italo-americano William Tatge concepisce il jazz odierno come un laboratorio aperto, dai tratti cameristici che d'improvviso si impennano in vampate melodico-ritmiche di bella tensione, avventurosa, ma sempre controllata. Ascoltando questo Borderlands si coglie una cifra autoriale precisa ma nello stesso tempo una disponibilità a mettersi in gioco valorizzando al massimo il ...
Adam Rudolph - Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Turning Towards The Light
by Glenn Astarita
This acoustic-electric guitar summit by an upper-echelon congregation of modernists yields a polychromatic listening experience, conducted and organized by composer, percussionist, Adam Rudolph. And it should come as no surprise that the musicians' distinct styles and vernaculars create added value here. Rudolph's proven track record of thinking outside the box and expanding jazz and world-beat music ...
Fred Hughes Trio: I'll Be Home For Christmas
by Geannine Reid
What would Christmas be without that familiar holiday sound scape of songs of yesterday? Well thankfully we will not have to find out, because jazz pianist Fred Hughes has released I'll Be Home for Christmas which is a set of 11 memorable classics that never grow old and will be a great addition to the holiday ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day IV
by Vincenzo Roggero
Giunto al quarto capitolo della serie, il quintetto del batterista /compositore Harris Eisenstadt denominato Canada Day si conferma formazione di assoluto valore, forte di un sound personale e ben definito, dotato di grande pulizia e precisione, dalla chiara progettualità. Ci tornano alla memoria certi combo degli anni cinquanta orbitanti nella galassia del cosiddetto “Cool Jazz," da ...
Edward Ricart, Tim Daisy: Yiu Ja Ley
by Giuseppe Segala
Registrato a Chicago nel 2011, questo intenso lavoro che coinvolge le chitarre di Edward Ricart e la batteria di Tim Daisy viene pubblicato ora dall'etichetta di New Atlantis Collective, un gruppo di musicisti impegnato come laboratorio creativo, fondato e animato dallo stesso Ricart. A dire il vero, in questo caso è improprio parlare di duo, in ...
Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra: Farewell
by Dave Wayne
I am beginning to wonder if every jazz musician has, in some dark corner of their psyche, a suppressed ambition to lead a big band. Economically unfeasible, logistically impossible--but artistically gratifying--a big band is perhaps the ultimate way to make manifest one's greatest musical ambitions. You get to conduct, pick your own solos, compose and arrange ...
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