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François Carrier: Unknowable
by Budd Kopman
The mystery of spontaneously created music is most certainly “unknowable," but saxophonist François Carrier has shown himself to be completely at home facing, and embracing, the unknown. Unknowable finds Carrier and his long-time percussionist Michel Lambert meeting acoustic bass guitarist Rafal Mazur at the Alchemia Jazz Klub on June 1, 2014 at the recommendation ...
Eple Trio: Universal Cycle
by Eyal Hareuveni
The fourth album of the Norwegian Eple Trio--pianist Andreas Ulvo, bassist Sigurd Hole and drummer Jonas H. Sjøvaag--marks an exciting new chapter in the trio ten years of work. The album was recorded in a remote studio in the vast forestry scenery of Sweden where evolution, its most extreme and barren forms challenges humanity, where the ...
Paolo Sorge: Ringlike
by Vincenzo Roggero
Non fatevi ingannare eccessivamente dalle accattivanti melodie, dalla soavità dei suoni, dalla raffinatezza degli arrangiamenti, dalla precisione della scrittura, dall'eleganza esecutiva. Perché se è vero che Ringlike aggancia senza indugi l'attenzione dell'ascoltatore, se lo fa subito amico concedendogli confidenza e dispensando amabilità comunicativa, è altrettanto vero che sotto la superficie pullula un mondo parallelo animato da ...
-isq: -Isq: Too
by Luca Muchetti
Pop d'autore visto con le lenti dal jazz. Gli -isq sono una formazione inglese nelle cui file milita Irene Serra, cantante dalle origini italiane ma oggi stabilmente a Londra. Insieme a un pugno di musicisti divisi fra contrabbasso, batteria e pianoforte, è giunta al secondo album, presentato nella capitale inglese in un locale di Soho pochi ...
Chris Trinidad: Chris Trinidad’s Certain Times
by Mark Sullivan
Bright, upbeat modern jazz from bassist/composer Chris Trinidad and his quartet. The Filipino-Canadian leader (now residing in the Bay Area) set out to make groove-oriented music; he structured the tunes with few chords (to give the soloists more freedom), and chose a low woodwind sound to occasionally double his bass riffs. The choice of instrumentation has ...
Michael Gibbs & The NDR Bigband: Play A Bill Frisell Set List
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Bill Frisell probably never had a preconceived notion that he'd one day record with famed British arranger, conductor and composer, Michael Gibbs after taking several of his classes as a student at Berklee College of Music back in 1975. Thus, Gibbs and the legendary NDR Bigband instill a symbiotic musical relationship throughout this cunningly envisioned ...
Ettore Fioravanti: Traditori
by Neri Pollastri
Ettore Fioravanti, oltre a essere uno dei protagonisti della batteria nel nostro paese, è anche un eccellente leader, capace in particolare di valorizzare musicisti emergenti, come esemplificato dal suo progetto Belcanto, con il quale una quindicina di anni fa si misero in luce musicisti che sono oggi tra i più affermati del nostro panorama, quali Giovanni ...
The Spanish Donkey: Raoul
by Luca Muchetti
Una tempesta di suoni, un incantesimo sonoro dai profili affilati e dal cuore elettrico. Ecco cosa è Raoul, ultimo nato in casa Spanish Donkey, la formazione composta da Joe Morris, Jamie Saft e Mike Pride. Tre musicisti che ergono un muro sonoro che, sebbene non originalissimo, sa affascinare l'ascoltatore sensibile a quel filone della musica che ...
Roberto Magris: Enigmatix
by Jack Bowers
As a showcase for Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris' exceptional talents, Enigmatix works quite well. Magris, who has devoted several albums to the music of others (Lee Morgan, Elmo Hope, Cannonball Adderley) and shared center stage with saxophonists Herb Geller and Sam Reed on others, turns the spotlight on himself and his keyboard this time around in ...
All Included: Satan In Plain Clothes
by John Sharpe
Cooperative five piece All Included goes from strength to strength on Satan In Plain Clothes, building on the already considerable charms of their debut Reincarnation Of A Free Bird (Stone Floor, 2012). Connections abound in the unchanged line up which reflects the burgeoning, almost incestuous, Scandinavian scene. Check out the overlaps in personnel among groups such ...
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