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Fred Frith, Barry Guy: Backscatter Bright Blue
by Vic Albani
Con la doverosa e ormai classica intraprendenza, l'intelligente Intakt elvetica ha chiamato due universi musicali distanti fra loro come quelli di Fred Frith e di Barry Guy nello studio di Willy Strehler per quella che potremmo sì definire una session d'improvvisazione ma che porta con sé anche un gradiente di creatività semplicemente straordinario. Quando c'è di ...
Marianne Solivan: Spark
by Angelo Leonardi
Marianne Solivan si connette alla grande tradizione di cantanti di jazz come Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter e Carmen McRae. La forma vocale esuberante, lo spessore timbrico, la tensione bluesy, la fantasia interpretativa ne fanno un'interprete di primo piano sulla scena musicale di New York. Questo secondo disco da leader -dopo il debutto del 2012 con Prisoner ...
Jack Wright / Ben Wright: as if anything could be the same
by Dave Wayne
It's only apropos that I am writing this review on Father's Day. As if anything could be the same is a duet album by the father and son team of saxophonist Jack Wright and contrabassist Ben Wright. In the world of improvised music, or non-idiomatic improvised music if one must, Jack Wright is a seminal figure. ...
Michael Bates: Northern Spy
by Mark Corroto
Did you ever get a bit envious listening to a recording and thinking the band is having way too much fun making music? I'm not saying Northern Spy stirs up jealousy, but damn the trio of bassist Michael Bates, saxophonist Michael Blake and drummer Jeremy “Bean" Clemons are up to some serious jollification here.This, ...
Reinhard Gagel, Mirio Cosottini: Pieces without Memory
by Neri Pollastri
Frutto di una lunga serie di incontri--avvenuti tra il 2013 e il 2014 in Germania e Italia--tra due musicisti che condividono non solo l'interesse per l'improvvisazione radicale, ma anche quello per la meditata riflessione teoretica sul loro agire artistico, questo disco in duo si compone di dieci tracce aventi in comune progettualmente solo la durata di ...
For Free Hands: Kaleidoscope Freedom
by Alberto Bazzurro
Due bulgari, un tedesco e un greco compongono questo quartetto, che parla molto di lìbertà (nel suo nome, nel titolo stesso del disco) ma poi in realtà pratica un jazz alquanto prudente, aconflittuale, calato in una tradizione moderno-contemporanea largamente collaudata non esente da inflessioni country-rock. I temi sono tutti a firma del chitarrista ...
Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio: Here from There
by Budd Kopman
Here From There announces a major new mainstream talent, the Yaniv Taubenhouse, led by pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse, from the perspective of both his performance and composition.The album was recorded during Taubenhouse's stay at Fayetteville, Arkansas in the University of Arkansas piano performance program. Since arriving there in 2010, the current trio which includes drummer ...
Dre Hocevar Trio: Coding Of Evidentiality
by Mark Corroto
Given the title of drummer Dre Hocevar's recording, the question arises: can one classify or identify a system's disorder, i.e. entropy? The liner notes give us a hint. Laurence Donohue-Greene writes, this trio of Hocevar, pianist Bram De Looze and cellist St.Louis, “develop each improvisation compositionally and with tenacious unity." I suspect, when there is human ...
Milford Graves/Bill Laswell: Space / Time - Redemption
by Dave Wayne
An unlikely duo, yet-somehow-also the perfect duo, electric bassist Bill Laswell and multi-percussionist Milford Graves generate all sorts of musical fire on Space -Time: Redemption. Once again, TUM Records' lush packaging includes numerous photos, copious liner notes, and some uncannily prescient poetry by longtime Laswell associate Umar Bin Hassan. One of the photos shows Graves adjusting ...
Yells at Eels: In Quiet Waters
by Karl Ackermann
It would seem that trumpeter Dennis González could easily find a place among the better-known artists in jazz were it not for a deep commitment to making generally undefinable music and priorities that include putting his academic and literary responsibilities out front. From the time of his first release as a leader, Air Light (Sleep Sailor) ...
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