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Jeremy Siskind: Housewarming
by Angelo Leonardi
Si apre con un'incantevole versione di “Whispering Grass" -una ballad degli anni '40 di Fred e Doris Fisher ripescata dal magazzino dei ricordi -il nuovo disco di Jeremy Siskind in trio con la cantante Nancy Harms e il talentoso multistrumentista Lucas Pino. Non potrebbe esserci migliore introduzione per questa formazione, che ha già dato più di ...
David Patrick Octet: The Rite Of Spring
by Bruce Lindsay
Igor Stravinsky's “The Rite Of Spring," written for the Ballets Russe, premiered in Paris on 29 May 1913. Puccini called it “the creation of a madman": it seems to have held a fascination for jazz musicians ever since it appeared. Scottish pianist David Patrick is the latest jazz musician to create a version--a “re-adaptation" as he ...
Yago Vazquez/Scott Lee/Jeff Hirshfield: Stream
by Karl Ackermann
These are good times for piano trios. Emerging groups like those of Pier Luigi Salami and Romain Collin, as well as the more establish work of Stefano Battaglia, have contributed to a recent spate of highly creative and renewed approaches to the format. Add to that list pianist Yago Vazquez, bassist Scott Lee, and drummer Jeff ...
Glenn Zottola: Charlie Parker with Strings Revisited
by Edward Blanco
Saxophonist and trumpeter Glenn Zottola came out of retirement from a long distinguished career, for the specific purpose of paying tribute to jazz artists who influenced his life and his music. The tribute series of albums which, include homages to Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Stan Getz among them, concludes with a tip of the hat ...
9 Horses: Perfectest Herald
by Budd Kopman
Perfectest Herald is another release that stretches the label “jazz" or even that of “creative improvised music" as it casts its spell and ultimately becomes completely enveloping. 9 Horses, the trio put together by composer and mandolin virtuoso Joseph Brent, consists of two other extraordinary players: violinist Sara Caswell and bassist Shawn Conley who ...
Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project: Lines of Color
by Maurizio Comandini
Ryan Truesdell continua nella sua opera di esplorazione dell'universo di Gil Evans con un secondo album che fa seguito all'ottimo Centennial: Newly Discover Works by Gil Evans pubblicato da ArtistShare nel 2012. Un album molto ben accolto dalla critica e dal pubblico, al punto di aver addirittura vinto un Grammy Award. Per questo Lines of Color ...
Mirko Signorile: Soundtrack Cinema
by Neri Pollastri
Primo lavoro in solitudine del pianista pugliese Mirko Signorile, questo album raccoglie, come da titolo, alcuni brani tratti da colonne sonore cinematografiche, ma anche--e soprattutto--composizioni dello stesso Signorile. Lo stile adottato alla tastiera è sostanzialmente classico, le interpretazioni sono sfumate e personali, sospese e affascinanti, tuttavia raramente sorprendono o si sviluppano in situazioni capaci ...
Karrin Allyson: Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson sings Rodgers and Hammerstein
by C. Michael Bailey
Karrin Allyson projects always have all five points of the creative star pinned down: theme, repertoire, arrangement, sequencing, and support. Her recordings Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (Concord, 2001), In Blue (Concord, 2002), Footprints (Concord, 2006), and 'Round Midnight (Concord, 2011) are all evidence of her unsurpassed musicianship and creative heart. Karrin Allyson's worst recording is still ...
Steve Olson: The Ruthless Shapes of Paradise
by Budd Kopman
From the opening bell, which sounds for all the world like that which signals the beginning of a Zen meditation session, The Ruthless Shapes of Paradise creates a wondrous, ethereal and all-encompassing time/space continuum all of its own. Drummer/percussionist Steve Olson, whose previous album, Conversations explored free improvisation between himself and various other instrumentalists, ...
Howard Riley: Discussions
by Roger Farbey
The reissue on CD of Howard Riley's Discussions is to be welcomed, since it only ever saw a highly limited pressing of 99 copies when first released on the Opportunity label in 1967. It is also an important historical artefact because it provides a tangible clue as to how Riley progressed, via the foresight of David ...
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