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Mack Avenue Superband: Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival - 2014
by Dan Bilawsky
Bands fostered by labels and sourced from their stables are nothing new. The concept itself has always carried great possibility, but many a label has dropped the ball on the artistic responsibility side of the equation. At their worst, these types of get-togethers have come off as incongruous gatherings that are crudely slapped together. The concerts ...
Funk Off: Things Change
by Alex Franquelli
The whole point, when it comes to marching bands, is that they have to well, stroll around while playing their instruments. I guess, you guess, that the whole point is lost on CD, where the mono-dimensional (time) facet of the spectrum monopolises the dynamics of the whole. Things Change makes obviously no exception, but does it ...
Jeff Jenkins Organization: The Arrival
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz organ trio is such a durable format. It can play the greasiest greens or the most well-scrubbed church music and it all still sounds as if hand delivered by the Divine. Keyboardist Jeff Jenkins, equally adept on piano as Hammond B3 organ uses the format in both parts of his musical life, one as ...
John Raymond: Foreign Territory
by Maurizio Zerbo
Il titolo del CD allude emblematicamente alla pratica strumentale messa in atto da questo splendido quartetto, dalla condotta armonica estremamente raffinata. Lo testimoniano i due brani-manifesto del progetto, fra intelligenza melodica e sobrietà del fraseggio solistico. Nel solco di una pratica ampiamente diffusa nel jazz sin dagli anni '30, il trombettista statunitense agisce creativamente sugli standard ...
Ballister: Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love: Worse for the Wear
by Angelo Leonardi
Cinque dischi in cinque anni non sono male per un trio dalla spiccata identità free, con innesti rumoristico/elettronici. Nato nel 2011, Ballister è formato dal sassofonista Dave Rempis, dal violocellista Fred Lonberg-Holm e dal batterista norvegese Paal Nilssen-Love, tutti partner -a vario titolo -di Ken Vandermark e dei massimi strumentisti radicali che fanno base ...
Mike Holober: Balancing Act
by Dan Bilawsky
Conceptualizing and creating music is a delicate balancing act, leaving composers to strive for symmetry between head and heart, reasoning and intuition, and structure and freedom. Who better to understand that than Mike Holober? Whether penning a piece or playing piano, Holober has always shown himself to be mindful of the need to find harmony between ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: The Battle for Earth
by Doug Collette
The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has been an adventuresome group since first initiated as an eight piece ensemble in its home of Oklahoma in 1994 But the group has quite possibly never lived up so fully to its moniker since realigning itself as a trio (again) in 2013. Keyboardist and charter member Brian Haas, guitarist/lap steel/synth ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk
by Karl Ackermann
If ever a jazz group defied labeling, it is Mostly Other People Do the Killing (MOPDtK). With their self-titled debut (Hot Cup Records, 2004), the group had demonstrated a wildly engrossing pastiche encompassing influences as diverse as Ornette Coleman and traditional New Orleans swing. MOPDtK was founded by bassist Moppa Elliott and trumpeter Peter Evans who ...
Richard Nelson / Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Deep River
by Budd Kopman
The inspiration for jazz composition and improvisation can come from almost anywhere. For guitarist/composer Richard Nelson it was American roots music that he played with his then 12-year-old son who had developed an intense connection to the old tunes and players. The jazz suite Deep River is the result of experiencing this music with ...
Quintorigo, Roberto Gatto: Around Zappa
by Mario Calvitti
Dopo il progetto di qualche anno fa intitolato a Charles Mingus e quello più recente su Jimi Hendrix, i Quintorigo ne dedicano ora uno anche a Frank Zappa, un'altra delle icone musicali del XX secolo che da sempre annoverano tra le loro fonti di ispirazione, anche se la spinta necessaria alla realizzazione del progetto è giunta ...
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