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Jaga Jazzist: Starfire
by Alex Franquelli
First things first: let's leave the definition of Jaga Jazzist music for last. Or, better, let's not even consider using labels. Let's not rush to conclusions, let's not fall in the sweet traps of music criticism where one plunges in forced by adjectives, hyperboles, comparisons, clever rhetoric and assorted namedropping. First things first, we said, as ...
Paul Dietrich: We Always Get There
by Hrayr Attarian
Chicago based trumpeter and composer Paul Dietrich's debut album We Always Get There is a vibrant and explorative work of modern music that inhabits the border zone between the mainstream and the Avant-Garde. The record's intricately constructed originals, with dramatic ambiences, are provocative while remaining intensely melodic, simultaneously accessible and pleasantly challenging.The intimate theme ...
Branford Marsalis: A Love Supreme - Live in Amsterdam
by Angelo Leonardi
In occasione del cinquantenario della pubblicazione di A Love Supreme di John Coltrane, l'etichetta Okeh ripubblica il concerto del 30 marzo 2003 di Branford Marsalis alla BimHuis di Amsterdam. Quella performance uscì un decennio fa per la Marsalis Music in un'elegante confezione contenente il DVD video del concerto, interviste, contenuti speciali e un compact ...
Cyminology: Phoenix
by Vic Albani
Lo scrivevamo qualche anno fa da queste stesse colonne: lei si chiama Cymin Samawatie, iraniana nata a Braunschweig anche se da molti anni berlinese acquisita, capace di lavorare ad alti livelli sulle metriche della poesia classica di Rumi o Hafez. Accanto ad un trio formato dal pianista Benedikt Jahnel, dal bassista Ralf Schwarz e dal batterista ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up!
by Jack Bowers
Even after more than three decades as a big-band leader, and with twenty well-received albums under his belt, Grammy winner Bob Mintzer keeps pushing the envelope, tweaking his recipe and exploring new ways in which to challenge himself and his sidemen while seducing the listener's ear. Known among other things for his fondness for Latin music, ...
Denny Zeitlin: Riding the Moment
by Dan McClenaghan
The album Switched-On Bach (Columbia Records, 1968), by Walter (now Wendy) Carlos was a seminal introduction to synthesized music. Carlos used the then new MOOG Synthesizer to painstakingly construct the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Love it or hate it seemed to be the reaction, without much opinion in between. But one thing for certain, the ...
The Greg Foat Group: The Dancers at the End of Time
by Roger Farbey
This is the fourth album by pianist/organist/composer Greg Foat and has been released both on CD and LP (this review concerns the latter format) and is unquestionably his most accomplished and satisfying to date. The stately strains of a church organ (a real one, since this album was recorded in a church), herald the ...
Mark Helias - Tony Malaby - Tom Rainey: The Signal Maker
by Stefano Merighi
Mark Helias è persona cordiale, generosa, empatica. Un carattere aperto, bilanciato tuttavia da un rigore assoluto che caratterizza la sua attività di bandleader e di contrabbassista. Ricordiamo che il suo curriculum è aureo avendo suonato con maestri come Ed Blackwell e Dewey Redman, Anthony Braxton e Ray Anderson, garantendo una versatilità ed una affidabilità assolute.
Francesco Cusa and the Assassins: Love
by Giuseppe Segala
Formazione che esprime al meglio la versatilità e la feroce curiosità del suo leader, il batterista, compositore e scrittore Francesco Cusa, The Assassins trova con questo album una decisa focalizzazione dopo i progressivi aggiustamenti della proposta musicale e dell'organico di trio, che aveva già beneficiato dell'inserimento di Piero Bittol Bon nel precedente CD The Beauty and ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up!
by Dan Bilawsky
Funk and R&B are the dominant sonic strains on Get Up!--saxophonist-composer Bob Mintzer's twentieth big band release overall and his fifth for the MCG Jazz imprint. In October of 2014, Mintzer took to the stage for two nights at Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, armed with some of his grooving big band arrangements and ...
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