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Triologos: Tracce di canti – Traces of Chants
by Alberto Bazzurro
L'orma di un piede, di un passaggio, campeggia sulla copertina di questo che dovrebbe essere l'album d'esordio del trio nato nel 2008 appunto con l'intento di ricercare--citiamo testualmente--"una lingua comune [che parta] da un frammento melodico e dal suo respiro ritmico che ci suggerisce una direzione. Il senso del nostro dialogo sta proprio nella fragilità della ...
BOLO: BOLO
by James Nadal
There is an ancestral vocation that devout musicians draw inspiration and bearing from. Once on this chosen spiritual path, they enter into a mesmerizing plateau of creativity which is only accessible through profound belief in the task at hand, and a complete mastery of their instrument. The multi-instrumental trio of Surya Prakasha, Evan Fraser and Eliyahu ...
Ivo Perelman: Counterpoint
by Glenn Astarita
Tenor sax strongman Ivo Perelman underscores the objective for this release, advising that “This combination, with viola and guitar--I've never before used this particular grouping ... I knew it would be challenging, with dense textures and this three-part counterpoint." However, the respective musicians have recorded in various formations in the past, so one would immediately surmise ...
Dave Douglas: High Risk
by Luca Muchetti
È firmata dal musicista newyorkese Dave Douglas una delle tante e nuovi possibili interpretazioni elettroniche del jazz. Il filone, spesso interlocutorio ma talvolta anche gravido di belle sorprese, nel caso del musicista statunitense di recente nominato direttore artistico di Bergamo Jazz con High Risk disegna una prospettiva dalle linee solide, all'interno di un progetto che denota ...
Tré: Edle Einfalt
by Alberto Bazzurro
Trio dalle geometrie inusuali ma non per questo inaudite (pensiamo solo a un ipotetico, assolutamente realistico, Giuffre/Brookmeyer/Manne, le cui temperature fanno del resto capolino in episodi quali “Drachengedankenkampf," “Ninna nanna," per certi versi anche “Domino"), il tedesco Tré poggia le proprie fondamenta sulle larghe volute disegnate dal trombone di Thomas Lüthi, non fosse altro che per ...
Sunny Kim and Ben Monder: The Shining Sea: Live at Olympus Hall
by Dave Wayne
People who know me know that I am not particularly interested in jazz vocals or straight-up renditions of jazz standards. One of my hobbies is playing the drums, and I am also not really motivated to listen to music without drums or some sort of percussion. So, I put off reviewing The Shining Sea: Live at ...
Michael Vlatkovich: Mortality
by Dave Wayne
Wow. Where to start? Apropos of its title, Mortality is huge. Vast. Complex. Quixotic. Musically, it's a mega-ambitious work that fuses operatic vocals, several styles of jazz, heavily-scored contemporary classical music and flat-out improvisational wailing in the most appealing ways possible. Interestingly, Michael Vlatkovich, a West Coast trombone virtuoso and composer / improvisor of considerable merit, ...
Dmitry Baevsky: Over and Out
by Hrayr Attarian
New York based saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky's fourth release as a leaderOver and Out finds the St Petersburg native in a spare setting backed only by bass and drums. With his alto's warm, organic tone in the spotlight, Baevsky interprets a mixture of his originals and standards with intense lyricism and confident and mature bravado.
Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields
by Dan McClenaghan
It's always interesting to discuss the jazz greats of yesteryear and swap thoughts on how the new generation of artists stacks up against the likes of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington. And it's quite possible that the consensus opinion there would be that virtually no one working today can compare favorably to those ...
Universal Indians with Joe McPhee: Skullduggery
by John Sharpe
Throughout his career multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee has always appeared remarkably open to collaborations with musicians from different scenes. Sometimes these blossom into more established groupings such as his regular hook ups with the Scandinavian power trio The Thing and more recently with the English improv outfit Decoy (witness Oto (Bo'Weavil, 2010) and Spontaneous Combustion (OtoRoku, 2014)). ...
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