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Samuel Torres Group: Forced Displacement
by Dan Bilawsky
When Chamber Music America awarded Colombian-born, New York-based percussionist Samuel Torres a New Jazz Works grant in 2012, the wheels started spinning in his mind. Ultimately, it would be his native land that would help determine the directional vision for the grant-funded work: Torres, inspired by a visit to San Juan de Urabá and an encounter ...
Juhani Aaltonen & Iro Haarla: Kirkastus
by Dan McClenaghan
The most striking thing about Kirkastus--a duo outing by a pair of seasoned Finnish free jazzers, saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist/harpist Iro Haarla--is the unalloyed beauty of the sound they've made. Aaltonen, in his eighth decade now, has the longer term veteran's credentials. His saxophone style draws from late period John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, with ...
Marie Kruttli Quintet: What Do I Miss
by Bruce Lindsay
What Do I Miss is pianist Marie Kruttli's second album as leader, hot on the heels of her trio debut, Kartapousse, which was released in mid-2015. Once again the tunes are all Kruttli's original compositions, but this time round it's a quintet outing: a short, five track EP recorded in Brooklyn during Kruttli's three-month stay in ...
Bengt Berger / Jonas Knutsson / Christian Spering / Max Schultz: Blue Blue
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Swedish trio of drummer Bengt Berger, saxophonist Jonas Knutsson and bassist Christian Spering has been working for 19 years, often hosting different musicians-friends. This versatile trio aesthetics blended natural elements of modern jazz with East-Asian and West-African rhythms and Swedish folk music. The trio was voted as the Swedish jazz group of the year more ...
David Ricard Big Band: Holiday Swingin'
by Jack Bowers
Much like last year's Holidays with a Bang!, bassist David Ricard's new big-band album, Holiday Swingin,' does precisely that, seldom pausing for a deep breath while charging through a litany of fourteen seasonal themes both old and new. If much of it seems vaguely familiar, that could be because Ricard has recycled no fewer than nine ...
Garzone / Bergonzi / Moses / Andersson: Splitting up in Boston
by Jakob Baekgaard
Back in 2013, renowned saxophonists George Garzone and Jerry Bergonzi recorded an album together that came out in 2014 on the Danish label Stunt. The name of the album was Quintonic and it sounded just as one might expect; wonderful music with fiery blowing, swinging tunes, tight grooves and razor-sharp twists and turns and lyric moments ...
Beppe Di Benedetto Quintet: Another Point of View
by Maurizio Zerbo
Una delle migliori produzioni jazzistiche di quest'anno viene dall'Italia. Ne è protagonista il trombonista Beppe Di Benedetto, leader di un quintetto dagli equilibri perfetti. Le otto tracce proposte sprigionano un ammaliante percorso espressivo segnato dalla grande fantasia ritmica e dinamica. Composto da eccellenti musicisti, il quintetto dà vita ad una sonorità vibrante, nel rivisitare con grande ...
Amir ElSaffar: Crisis
by Alberto Bazzurro
Trentotto anni, chicagoano, padre iracheno e madre statunitense, Amir ElSaffar naviga a mezza via tra jazz canonico (inteso come linguaggio, non nel senso di mainstream) e musica araba, che si combinano, sovrapponendosi o giustapponendosi, nel procedere del suo sestetto, attivo (e immutabile) ormai da diversi anni. Diciamo subito che ciò che ci convince ...
Brad Mehldau: Brad Mehldau: 10 Years Solo Live
by Karl Ackermann
It is surprising that Brad Mehldau and Keith Jarrett do not draw even more comparisons. Both cross genres with ease, provide consistently high quality content and are unquestionably the finest piano virtuosos in modern music. With the release of Mehldau's 10 Years Solo Live, he solidifies his position as the heir apparent to Jarrett's place atop ...
Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg: Celestial Weather
by Karl Ackermann
Two modern avant-garde icons and long-time collaborators with an age-old link to Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra, come together for three suites that capitalize on their ability to forge a soundscape that is fuller than the duo format would logically produce. Celestial Weather is an open discourse between two musicians who have mastered their respective instruments to ...
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