Home » Search Center » Results: CD/LP/Track Review
Results for "CD/LP/Track Review"
Davis - Frith - Greenlief: Lantskap Logic
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Massacre, Arte Quartett) is one the earth's greatest improvisers. He is joined on Lantskap Logic by a pair of attuned futurists--pipe organist, educator Evelyn Davis (Cheer Accident), and saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief (They Might Be Giants)--to record this album at the Mills College chapel, which houses the pipe organ, and seemed to ...
Francesco Chiapperini Extemporary Vision Ensemble: The Big Earth
by Neri Pollastri
Questo The Big Earth è forse un lavoro che non ci si sarebbe aspettati da Francesco Chiapperini, clarinettista (e sassofonista) apprezzato sia nel suo precedente Our Redemption, sia come membro di Nexus (per esempio in Experience Nexus!). Qui infatti il musicista va a cercare le proprie radici culturali--è originario della Puglia--rielaborando assieme al suo Extemporary Vision ...
Mary Halvorson: Code Girl
by Claudio Bonomi
Qualcuno ha già inserito Code Girl tra i dischi dell'anno e, davvero, al di là delle classifiche personali, si tratta di un lavoro che si distingue, che interseca jazz e rock in una chiave non scontata e che, alla fine, si fa apprezzare. Ed è l'ennesima conferma del talento della prolifica compositrice e chitarrista Mary Halvorson, ...
Peter Nelson: Ash, Dust, and the Chalkboard Cinema
by Dan Bilawsky
"In sickness and in health" is a phrase that evokes thoughts of wedding vows in most minds. But in a broader sense, it can be applicable to performing artists and their relationship--marital commitment, if you will--to their instruments and work. If anybody has lived and absorbed that truth, it's trombonist Peter Nelson. After ...
The Way Ahead: Bells, Ghosts and other Saints
by Mark Corroto
Perry Farrell, of the rock band Jane's Addiction, might have said/sung it best in 1988, on the track “Ted, Just Admit it..." when he whispered “Nothing's Shocking." Indeed, nothing is in the 21st century. Marcel Duchamp's painting “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) is mostly admired today, and certainly not the trigger for a riot. ...
Daisuke Konno: Taking the D
by Chris Mosey
Choosing material for his first album, Taking the D, melody came first and foremost for Japanese drummer Daisuke Konno. He says: “I picked songs with beautiful melodies because I wanted as many people as possible to enjoy my music--not just jazz lovers." Konno's musical odyssey from Tokyo to New York City began with ...
Huntertones: Passport
by Doug Collette
Huntertones' Passport is an absolutely seamless piece of work. The integration of the material with the playing and, by extension, the arranging and recording, becomes evident in the first minutes of “Clutch" and remains pervasive for the duration of this, the group's third album. Even so, there are readily-discernible dynamics at work here. The ...
Kristen Strom: Moving Day: The Music of John Shifflett
by Jack Bowers
The esteemed bassist John Shifflett was for roughly thirty years a mainstay in countless San Francisco Bay Area sessions and recordings until his untimely passing in April 2017. Gone, that's true, but far from forgotten. Shifflett, as it turns out, had another largely hidden talent as a composer of bright and accessible jazz tunes, seven of ...
The Jamie Baum Septet: Bridges
by Peter J. Hoetjes
Far from prolific, Jamie Baum has recorded just four albums in the past decade. However, each recording has clearly been created because the flutist was inspired to contribute something new. Bridges is presented as six songs separated equally by the three part “Honoring Nepal: The Shiva Suite." This almost cinematic 20-minute centerpiece composition is an expansive ...
Peter Evans / Barry Guy: Syllogistic Moments
by John Sharpe
From the first few seconds of the opening “Red Green" onwards, this live recording from trumpeter Peter Evans and bassist Barry Guy is a feat of death defying bravura. The two are among the most utterly distinctive practitioners on their instruments and they create a fast evolving kaleidoscope of preposterous sounds. Evans named his record label ...
