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Pericopes + 1: These Human Beings
by Neri Pollastri
Prosegue con successo il percorso di Pericopes+1, qui al secondo album dopo l'allargamento a trio del duo del pianista Alessandro Sgobbio e del tenorsassofonista Emiliano Vernizzi, trio che già aveva realizzato nel 2015 l'eccellente These Human Beings. Stavolta i tre approdano all'etichetta Auand per pubblicare un disco registrato presso l'Artesuono di Stefano Amerio, frutto ...
Mike Rud: Miniatures
by Dan Bilawsky
What to do, what to do, what to do? That question must always be swimming around the mind of the creative performer. And for those who reap some sort of critical success with their work, it's magnified, as the listening public, no doubt, also ponders the next move. When faced with this endless sea of choice, ...
Kansas Smitty's House Band: Kansas Smitty's
by Bruce Lindsay
Kansas Smitty's is the debut album from the eight-piece Kansas Smitty's House Band, a London-based octet with an open approach to the integration of many jazz styles. The result is a refreshingly original debut album filled with some of the catchiest and most engaging music around. House bands have a long history, playing regular ...
Ifa y Xango Tentet: Twice Left Handed / Shavings
by Dave Wayne
A culturally improbable collaboration of Brazilian, Portuguese, and Belgian musicians, the Ifa y Xango Tentet is easily one of the most adventurous large ensembles operating anywhere in the world today. Co-operative in nature, and playing entirely their own original compositions, the group's vision, as captured on Twice Left Handed / Shavings encompasses jazz, rock, post-rock, doom ...
Mike Reed's People, Places and Things: A New Kind of Dance
by Hrayr Attarian
As a drummer, promoter and composer Mike Reed is a standard bearer for Chicago's creative music scene. His club Constellation is a hot bed for improvisation and innovation that often defy narrow genre-isms. His unique musicianship, meanwhile, is on display on his many recordings particularly ones with his groups; People, Places and Things and Loose Assembly. ...
Francesco Bearzatti Tinissima 4tet: This Machine Kills Fascists
by Neri Pollastri
Tinissima 4tet, la formazione di Francesco Bearzatti che ha spopolato con i suoi primi progetti ispirati da Tina Modotti e Malcom X, torna alle origini “politiche" dopo il più ludico, anche se ben riuscito, Monk & Roll. Stavolta l'ispiratore è Woody Guthrie, grande cantore dell'America popolare, sulla cui chitarra era scritta la frase che dà il ...
Jerry Bergonzi: Rigamaroll
by Angelo Leonardi
In Jerry Bergonzi c'è piena coerenza tra concezione esistenziale e artistica. Il sassofonista è convinto della profonda relazione che lega tutte le cose, riconosce il valore della tradizione e la sua musica si rapporta ad essa in piena consapevolezza. Entro questa cornice ha sviluppato un modo personale di suonare --armonico, ritmico e timbrico-che è ...
John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Live at La Resistenza
by Mark Corroto
The subtitle to Charles Mingus' composition “Gunslinging Bird" is “If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats," refers to the great alto saxophonist's ability to dominate a bandstand and quiet any and all comers. Parker, who died in 1955, might not have known about automatic weapons, nor the free jazz ...
Lionel Loueke: GAÏA
by Dan Bilawsky
Those who figure that this reunion between guitarist Lionel Loueke and his longtime trio mates will be a simple trip down memory lane have another thing coming to them. While Loueke, drummer Ferenc Nemeth, and bassist Massimo Biolcati could've certainly delivered another globally-infused set replete with fluid gestures and finely-calibrated interplay, à la their work on ...
Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg: Mette Henriette
by Karl Ackermann
In her debut recording with the large Norwegian ensemble Torg on Kost/Elak/Gnäll (Jazzland Recordings, 2015), the playing of saxophonist Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg may well have been lost in the pack. That Bugge Wesseltoft produced album was an unrestrained mashup of genres, styles and techniques in an octet that didn't easily lend itself to individual performance ...
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