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Ron Carter and the WDR Big Band: My Personal Songbook
by Angelo Leonardi
Ron Carter non è solo un protagonista indiscusso nella storia del contrabbasso ma anche un eccellente compositore che, a dispetto dei 3000 album registrati, non ne ha mai dedicato uno per intero ai suoi brani. Erano anni che il produttore Lucas Schmid voleva realizzare questo progetto ma solo nel novembre 2013, dopo una lunga ...
Roots Magic: Hoodoo Blues
by Vincenzo Roggero
L'inizio è di quelli da far tremare i polsi, perché “The Hard Blues," originariamente registrato nel febbraio del 1972 durante le session di Dogon A.D. ma pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1975 come brano conclusivo di Coon Bid'ness, è totemico marchio di fabbrica di uno straordinario improvvisatore e compositore quale è stato Julius Hemphill. Ma ...
Snik: Metasediment Rock
by John Sharpe
The Clean Feed imprint continues to unearth new outfits from Scandinavia deserving wider appreciation. Among the latest is Snik, a predominantly Norwegian quartet which includes bassist Ole Morten Vågan, best known for his tenure in saxophonist Joshua Redman's Trio. Completing the line up are young trombonist Kristoffer Kompen, who contributes half a dozen of the eight ...
Various Artists: Peru Boom: Bass, Bleeps & Bumps from Peru's Electronic Underground
by Chris M. Slawecki
Lima is often referred to as the intersecting point for the cross-pollinating Andean, African, European and South American cultures of Peru, the cradle of the Incas. Club revelers throughout Central and South America (and the DJs who the spin music that keeps them dancing) also consider Lima to be home base for the Tropical Bass sound ...
Rich Halley 4: Eleven
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Rich Halley exploded out of a five year recording hiatus in 2010 with Live at Penofin Jazz Festival, a growling, high energy, in-front-of-the-crowd mad man rant that featured trumpeter Bobby Bradford in the front line of a wild and often raucous chordless quartet. Five years off or not, there was a history there--a bunch of ...
Romero Lubambo: Setembro
by Angelo Leonardi
Meno celebrato di quanto dovrebbe, Romero Lubambo è uno dei grandi chitarristi brasiliani contemporanei e questo suo terzo album per la Sunnyside ce lo ricorda. Dopo il duo col pianista/compositore César Camargo Mariano (Duo, 2012) e l'esplorazione del grande songbook brasiliano che ha ottenuto 5 stelle in Down Beat (Só: Brazilian Essence, 2013), Lubambo ...
Steve Davis: Say When
by Maurizio Zerbo
Il nume tutelare di questo CD è J.J. Johnson, di cui vengono interpretate sei note composizioni e relativi arrangiamenti. Davis si muove con tanto rispetto nei territori ampiamente esplorati dell'hard bop. Il modello di riferimento viene così riproposto con versatilità sia nei moduli espressivi che nelle sequenze degli assolo. Si impone una front-line ...
John Abercrombie: The First Quartet
by Karl Ackermann
In his more than thirty year career--almost exclusively with ECM--guitarist John Abercrombie has more often than not confined his formation to smaller groups ranging from solo through quartet. He has been less restricted in the style of music he creates and that diversity is demonstrated with mixed results on The First Quartet. The albums included in ...
Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg: Celestial Weather
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, one of the original AACM artists and a major avant-garde artist in his own right, is perhaps best known of late for his highly ambitious, monumental orchestral works--Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform Records, 2013) and Occupy the World (TUM Records, 2013). In 2014 he turned this approach down a bit--using using an all-star ...
Slobber Pup: Pole Axe
by Mark Corroto
Imagine the avant improv metal trio Slobber Pup, which is made up of keyboardist Jamie Saft, guitarist Joe Morris, and drummer Balazs Pandi, crafting a homemade greeting card that says, “you complete us" to give to Mats Gustafsson. As heartwarming and moving as that gesture is, the inclusion of the Swedish saxophonist on the trio's sophomore ...
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