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Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation
by Dan Bilawsky
You never really know what's up pianist Matt Mitchell's sleeve. As a sideman he's constantly adapting and growing, creating different palettes and situations that expand the color and content in the music of the Dave Douglas Quintet, Tim Berne's Snakeoil, John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble, Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls quintet, and other high profile outfits; as a ...
Lars Fiil: Frit Fald
by Jakob Baekgaard
All musicians work with sound, but their approaches are different. To some, it starts with a melody, to others it begins with a groove and then there are those who are simply interested in sound. Danish pianist Lars Fiil, who has previously based his compositions around melodies and grooves, is starting to move ...
Nick Freer: The Unsuspecting
by Roger Farbey
The euphonious start to “Glyph" on The Unsuspecting gives no clue as to the surprising guitar solo that ensues. This surely is Allan Holdsworth, no? Actually it isn't. Australian guitarist Nick Freer is an unashamed devotee of Holdsworth. He's currently embarking on a PhD entitled The Improvisational Process of Guitarist Allan Holdsworth: Ontology and Analysis of ...
Karl Berger/Kirk Knuffke: Moon
by John Sharpe
Cornetist Kirk Knuffke joins veteran German vibraphonist Karl Berger for a poised meditative duet on Moon. The origins of the set lie in a meeting at a concert celebrating drummer Ed Blackwell in New York City after which Berger invited Knuffke to his Creative Music Studio to teach. So successful was the endeavor that the duo ...
Linda Dachtyl: A Late One
by C. Michael Bailey
Organist/drummer Linda Dachtyl, by virtue of her percussion-keys intersection, makes a fitting and insightful interpreter of the jazz organ repertoire. She displayed considerable command of this on her recording, For Hep Cats (Summit, 2008). On the present A Late One, Dachtyl steps out of the organ grinder box to expand her pedal palette in to areas ...
Georg Breinschmid: Double Brein
by Angelo Leonardi
Georg Breinschmid è uno dei massimi contrabbassisti e compositori austriaci e questo doppio CD è la palpabile raffigurazione della sua tumultuosa vena creativa. Georg si muove con agilità tra musica classica, jazz, musiche popolari e quant'altro, in un caleidoscopio di riferimenti e citazioni che si fondono e sovrappongono. Nato 42 anni fa, dopo aver fatto parte ...
Painting: Gravity
by Alberto Bazzurro
Tedesco trapiantato a New York, di professione pianista, Emanuel Ruffler è il deus ex machina dell'etichetta che pubblica questo breve CD (poco più di venti minuti, non a caso definito EP) in cui trovano posto sei brani di durata a loro volta medio-breve (ma in compenso con titoli quasi sempre chilometrici) che lo vede abbinato al ...
Echoes Of Swing: Dancing
by Bruce Lindsay
Across a couple of decades and seven albums Echoes Of Swing, a quartet based in Germany, has been inspired by swing music. Dancing is once again centered on swing, with the band taking its inspiration from the music and adding a contemporary twist. The band draws its material from a wide range of sources--both ...
Jacob Roved Quintet: Remembering Billy Strayhorn
by Jakob Baekgaard
Rock music has its fair share of musical collaborations, among others, the partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles. Jazz, however, also has its own canon of collaborators and at the top of the list is the duo of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. No one disputes the groundbreaking role ...
Billie Davies: Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon
by Roger Farbey
Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon is a heartfelt homage to the artist Serge Vandercam (1924-2005) whose paintings, depicted on the inside CD cover, originally inspired this suite of collaborative improvisations. Initially the inspiration drew from a period of three days of the full moon in 1995 when the artist was influenced by ...
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