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Marcus Miller: Afrodeezia
by Walter Atkins
Prominent bassist Marcus Miller's new album Afrodeezia (Blue Note Records) is inspired by his travels and impressions through West Africa, South America, the Caribbean along the Atlantic slave routes, and parts of the United States. The multi Grammy winner and UNESCO Artist for Peace pays homage to the African people forced into servitude and the enduring ...
Unhinged Sextet: Clarity
by David A. Orthmann
The mainstream of jazz could use more recordings like Clarity, a recently released venture by the cooperative Unhinged Sextet. On every track there's something genuinely enjoyable and thought provoking going on, yet the disc doesn't suffer from information overload. The sense of excessive exertion, overt athleticism, sanctimonious references to key points of the jazz tradition--not to ...
Max Johnson, Kirk Knuffke, Ziv Ravitz: Something Familiar
by Karl Ackermann
New York native Max Johnson does not appear to require sleep. The bassist/composer, whose career spans the wide terrain from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Lollapalooza to Anthony Braxton consistently delivers fresh, adventurous, high-quality music against an ambitious output. With his now-regular working trio of Kirk Knuffke on cornet and drummer Ziv Ravitz, the group has released ...
Bryan Eubanks / Stéphane Rives: fq
by John Eyles
Although they have not previously recorded together, the pairing of Bryan Eubanks and Stéphane Rives makes perfect sense. French soprano saxophonist Rives is already a long-serving Potlatch veteran, with this being his fourth release on the label, following in the wake of his 2003 solo soprano album Fibres, the ground-breaking saxophone quartet Propagations (Potlatch, 2007) and ...
Jeff Hackworth: The Heart of the Matter
by Edward Blanco
Veteran tenor saxophonist Jeff Hackworth doesn't fool around much on his most recent musical project and gets right to The Heart of The Matter, unveiling his seventh album as leader and follow up to his previous critically-acclaimed Soul To Go! (Big Bridge Music, 2014). Employing a muscular approach to the saxophone, Hackworth's tenor voice is pronounced ...
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh: Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato 1740
by C. Michael Bailey
George Frideric Handel (1685--1759) was a bit of a larger-than- life character whose music, and its importance, could stand a bit of Reason, that period between the 1620s and the 1780s when the social, cultural and intellectual tides in Western Europe highlighted reason, analysis, and individualism rather than traditional power structures, e.g., the church. Handel live ...
Teagan Taylor: The Subject Of...
by Dan McClenaghan
Teagan Taylor, San Diego's premier vocalist/cornetist/songwriter, released her first album I Can't Complain (Jazzomaniac Records), in 2011. It was a very capable, engaging, mosly jazz outing, featuring her distinctive take on the “Standards": “Taking a Chance on Love," “Bye Bye Blackbird," “Summertime" and the like. She was not yet twenty-one. A chance encounter with her back ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields
by Budd Kopman
The singular achievement of Maria Schneider is to merge the particular with the universal: to use her very personal experiences and memories as grist for music which is aurally beautiful and deeply infused with love. This love originates from Schneider the person and artist; it is amplified and returned by those directly involved in ...
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman: Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
by C. Michael Bailey
The hinges of musical history have typically afforded one or two artists most associated with them. At the horizon of the Renaissance looking over into the Baroque period was Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567--1643). He is often credited with developing polyphonic performance at the end of the Renaissance period and the basso continuo technique (establishment of ...
Tomasz Dąbrowski FREE4ARTS: Six Months and Ten Drops
by Eyal Hareuveni
FREE4ARTS may be the most Nordic-sounding group of Polish, Copenhagen-based prolific trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski. The quartet features colleagues from the musicians-run collective and record label Barefoot Records including baritone saxophonist Sven Dam Meinild, who also plays in Dąbrowski international quartet Ocean Fanfare, and drummer Kasper Tom Christiansen, who collaborated before with Dąbrowski in the Polish-Danish trio ...
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