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Martin Blume, Tobias Delius, Achim Kaufmann, Dieter Manderscheid: Frames & Terrains
by Alberto Bazzurro
Tirato in soli 300 esemplari su vinile, quindi con la classica divisione per facciate che giocoforza separa a sua volta in due parti la suite del titolo, peraltro frutto di un'unica seduta di improvvisazione totale, questo lavoro (live a Colonia, 9 giugno 2016) esprime e documenta pregi e difetti della formula, per la verità più i ...
Skuli Sverrisson: Strata
by Franz A. Matzner
A contemplative affair, Skuli Sverisson and Bill Frisell's Strata unfolds like a slow burning fire. The hovering notes and somber guitar lines evolve gradually, emerging like wind carved monuments visible through a hovering mist to reveal a stark, melancholic, and aridly beautiful landscape. The album demonstrates a fluid, masterful interaction between the two artists ...
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live
by Karl Ackermann
It is timely, albeit in a melancholy way, that one-time Tomasz Stańko protégé Marcin Wasilewski and his trio would offer a retrospective live performance that closely coincides with the passing of the legendary Polish trumpeter. The pianist, still just in his early forties, first recorded with Stańko's octet while he was a teenager and quickly went ...
Pocket Aces: Cull the Heard
by Samuel Stroup
Pocket Aces have made all the right moves in gearing up for their first album. The three improvisers are comfortable with each other, having spent time playing together, unearthing their sound. Cull the Heard finds the leaderless trio composing as they improvise, curating an album full of focussed and engaging songs. The Boston trio omits any ...
Michael Gibbs With The Gary Burton Quartet: Festival 69
by Roger Farbey
On the first two discs of this previously unreleased three CD set, recorded at a single concert on 20th November 1969, the music is regularly punctuated by Gary Burton's announcement tracks, which are not always easily intelligible. However, his announcement preceding Steve Swallow's joyously rousing “Portsmouth Configurations" (actually “Portsmouth Figurations," from the 1967 RCA studio album ...
Aya Ishida: Day by Day
by Jim Olin
Aya Ishida has the kind of softly enveloping, fragile voice that can sing just about anything and make it instantly appealing. Her voice itself is an instrument, rising and lowering with the overall temperature of each track. It can soar or caress depending on the mood of the song. This New York jazz singer has a ...
Louis Armstrong: Pops Is Tops. The Verve Studio Albums.
by Maurizio Zerbo
Grazie alla nuova storiografia del jazz, sono ormai caduti i vecchi e fuorvianti clichès sulla produzione discografica di Louis Armstrong negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta. Ingiustamente relegati, fino a qualche decennio fa, nell'alveo dell'intrattenimento commerciale e nel degradato processo di sclerotizzazione esecutiva del geniale trombettista, i dischi qui recensiti risalgono al 1957 e sono l'esito di ...
Living Colour: Shade
by Luca Muchetti
Shades un disco assolutamente fedele alla linea e del tutto fuori dal tempo. Ed è quanto la formazione di Corey Glover alla voce e cori, Vernon Reid alla chitarra elettrica e acustica, Doug Wimbish al basso e Will Calhoun alla batteria e percussioni regala a uno stuolo di fan che probabilmente non si aspettava una simile ...
Eliot Cardinaux: Sweet Beyond Witness
by Jakob Baekgaard
These days words seem to narrow the world instead of making it wide. Short, simple statements are floating around, just as quickly read as they are forgotten. Poetry is not an alternative to everyday language, but it provides a necessary supplement that reminds us that humans are complex beings--not just customers whose behavior and psychology can ...
Shane Dylan: When It All Makes Sense
by Jerome Wilson
Shane Dylan is a young pianist studying at Boston's New England Conservatory who has put out a debut CD that tries to show the breadth of his musical interests. It is split into two halves, the first with more groove-oriented material, the second going in a more mainstream jazz direction. The first half covers ...
