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Dan Brubeck Quartet: Live at the Cellar: Celebrating the Music and Lyrics of Dave & Iola Brubeck
by C. Michael Bailey
Drummer Dan Brubeck, son of the late Dave Brubeck, pays homage to his parents in a most appropriate way. He puts the proper frame around the songbook created by his mother and father over their 70-year performance career. Using the saxophone quartet format his father blazed jazz trails with, Brubeck leads his quartet through 14 Brubeck ...
Emily Francis Trio: The Absent
by Roger Farbey
The funky “Hops 'n' Scotch" kicks off this lively set, with keyboardist Francis employing Fender Rhodes and synths in Herbie Hancock mode. Languid acoustic piano opens “Winnebago" which soon transmutes into an up-tempo trio number with a flavour of Chick Corea's Iberian influence clearly detectable. The more contemplative “Redshift" benefits from Francis' ability to transition seamlessly ...
Connie Evingson & the John Jorgenson Quintet: All the Cats Join In
by C. Michael Bailey
Minneapolis-native Connie Evingson is one of the most durable and reliable jazz singers performing. She has had a spate of fine recordings in the last decade, including: Let it Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings the Beatles (Minnehaha, 2003), Gypsy in My Soul (Minnehaha, 2005), Stockholm Sweetnin'(Minnehaha, 2006), Little Did I Dream: Songs By Dave Frishberg (Minnehaha, ...
Fresh Frozen: Thawing Mammoth
by Neri Pollastri
Trio atipico (pianoforte, sax o clarinetto, e tuba), Fresh Frozen è qui alla sua seconda uscita con un CD di ben diciassette tracce, per metà basate su composizioni e per l'altra metà invece collettivamente improvvisate. La differenza si percepisce soprattutto per la durata--i brani improvvisati sono perlopiù delle miniature, quelli composti arrivano in alcuni casi a ...
The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come to Me
by Angelo Leonardi
È una musica avvincente e ricercata quella che si ascolta in Come to Me: atmosfere intime e raccolte che si confrontano con sequenze incisive, sia vocali che strumentali. Protagonista è un quartetto al suo debutto, guidato dalla cantante polacca Sylwia Bialas e dal batterista israeliano Asaf Sirkis. La prima risiede in Germania mentre Sirkis vive in ...
Bruno Råberg Quartet: Hot Box
by Mark Sullivan
Bassist-composer Bruno Råberg leads an adventurous, empathetic pianoless quartet on Hot Box, his seventh recording as a leader. Born in Sweden, he has been living in the U.S. since 1981, and is a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His collaborations with trumpeter Phil Grenadier and saxophonist Allan Chase go back over 10 ...
MINUA: In Passing
by Mark Sullivan
There can't be many trios made up of bass clarinet and two guitars; in fact, I can't think of another one. MINUA, a German/Icelandic trio based in Basel, Switzerland, makes it sound like the most natural combination in the world. The trio members met during their studies at the Jazzschool in Basel. They quickly felt a ...
Kevin Bachelder and Jason Lee Bruns: Cherry Avenue
by Geannine Reid
Vocalist Kevin Bachelder and drummer Jason Lee Bruns have team up to release an enjoyable collection of tunes entitled, Cherry Avenue. Bachelder spent his early years playing the trumpet, but soon realized that singing came naturally to him as well. It wasn't until college that he decided to focus solely on his voice as a primary ...
Harold Rubin, Barre Phillips, Tatsuya Nakatani: 3 on a Thin Line
by Libero Farnè
Obiettivo e prerogativa dell'improvvisazione assoluta sono quelli di saper costruire un flusso narrativo dal senso compiuto, concatenato e denso di qualità melodiche, dinamiche e timbriche, senza poter contare su temi noti e condivisi. Non che manchi l'esigenza di ricercare e trovare spunti melodici, anzi sono proprio la qualità e la spontanea naturalezza di queste invenzioni melodiche ...
Vinicius Cantuaria: Vinicius Canta Jobim
by Maurizio Zerbo
Quello di Antonio Carlos Jobim è uno dei songbook più popolari del '900 musicale, qui rivisitato con indubbio estro dal conterraneo Vinicius Cantuaria. Ne discende un Brasile del tutto diverso dai calligrafici omaggi alla bossa nova resi finora. Non mancano però le tracce più aderenti alla più canonica tradizione, con chitarra e strumentazione acustica.
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