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Keigo Hirakawa Trio: And Then There Were Three
by Mark Sullivan
Pianist Keigo Hirakawa clearly loves bebop, and bandmates Eddie Brookshire (bass) and Fenton Sparks (drums) are on the same page. There's energy and swing in abundance here, and while it is contemporary jazz, it's also telling that their cover of the great bebop pianist Bud Powell's classic “Dance Of The Infidels" fits right in with the ...
Geof Bradfield Quintet: Our Roots
by C. Michael Bailey
Tenor saxophonist Geof Bradfield's inspiration for Our Roots came from Clifford Jordan's Huddie “LeadBelly" tribute, These are my Roots: Clifford Jordan plays Leadbelly (Atlantic, 1965). While there is a bit of overlap in material from both recordings, Bradfield adopts a very different format for his presentation. Jordan employed a standard jazz rhythm section, while Bradfield eschews ...
Simon Jermyn’s Trot A Mouse: Pictorial Atlas Of Mammals
by Henning Bolte
At times the music of an album can be strikingly different from common and even one's own perceptional mental grids and might challenge one's own horizon of expectation. This album is not only a clear example of it. It is unusual and fascinating how adversative, contrastive features are balanced out in its music: rough and gentle, ...
Erik Friedlander: Oscalypso
by Vincenzo Roggero
Quattro rappresentanti della storica scena downtown newyorchese si riuniscono negli studi East Side Sound di quella città e registrano un disco tributo all'Oscar Pettiford violoncellista. Nove brani mostrano senza veli l'eleganza, lo swing, il senso melodico, la precisione della scrittura di Pettiford, con il quartetto di Erik Friedlander che asseconda pienamente queste caratteristiche esaltandole e personalizzandole ...
Morton Feldman, Quartetto Klimt: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
by Alberto Bazzurro
Questa che è l'ultima composizione di Morton Feldman, partorita l'anno stesso della sua morte (1987), rispecchia in toto le peculiarità di scrittura proprie del suo periodo estremo (e non solo, per altri versi): la dilatazione delle durate (qui si oltrepassano i settanta minuti, di fatto senza cesure di sorta), la contemporanea lentezza (spesso quasi la paralisi) ...
Lafayette Harris, Jr.: Bend To The Light
by Dan Bilawsky
While art often takes cues from life, and life certainly offers up its fair share of trials, tribulations, and dark spells, pianist Lafayette Harris, Jr. prefers to emphasize the positive while pouring existential thought into his music. On Bend To The Light--the seventh offering from Harris over the past twenty-plus years--hope, happiness, and ...
Girls in Airports: Fables
by Ian Patterson
Copenhagen quartet Girls in Airport is in fine form on Fables, its fourth release, and first on the Edition Records label. There are fewer big tunes than before although the band's trademark melodic hooks and rhythmic drive, its understated lyricism and hypnotic grooves are all present in abundance. What's been brought into sharper focus is the ...
Kirsten Edkins: Art & Soul
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Kirsten Edkins delivers a delightful and charming batch of mainstream jazz with her engaging and exuberant debut Art & Soul. The tracks alternate between soulful, smoky burners and cooler, airier ones with relaxed tempos and intricate arrangements. Keyboardist Larry Goldings' earthy, simmering Hammond B3 often drives the former type. For instance, “Mean Greens" ...
Alex Maksymiw: Without A Word
by Glenn Astarita
Toronto native, guitarist Alex Maksymiw has lent his admirable faculties to ensembles such as the Village Vanguard Orchestra and with reedman Dick Oatts among many other notables. Here, Maksymiw realigns with all-star saxophonist Marcus Strickland for a multifaceted quartet date, brimming with ethereal motifs and many works that merit repeated listens. Maksymiw is the ...
Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade: Children of the Light
by Vincenzo Roggero
Tre fuoriclasse dei rispettivi strumenti come Danilo Perez, John Patitucci e Brian Blade, oltre che superba sezione ritmica del celebrato quartetto di Wayne Shorter, registrano per la prima volta un disco come trio autonomo. E lo dedicano al loro mentore nonché guida musicale, con la speranza che l'innocenza infantile e la luce del titolo possano illuminare ...
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