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Fabrizio Bosso: Duke
by Edward Blanco
Italian post-bop trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso from Turin, Italy, is not yet a household name in the American musical landscape however, he is no novice to the jazz idiom either. A veteran trumpeter who has preferred the vibrant and more receptive jazz scene in Europe over the states, has during his burgeoning professional career, recorded seventeen albums ...
Eliana Cuevas: Espejo
by Angelo Leonardi
Nell'universo delle cantanti ai confini col jazz, la venezuelana Eliana Cuevas occupa un posto di rilievo per la calda e sensuale espressività, il timbro luminoso e l'acrobatico fraseggio. In Italia è quasi sconosciuta ed è un peccato perchè il temperamento solare e le splendide doti vocali che la caratterizzano (ricorda a tratti la giovane Mina) la ...
Marcello Tonolo Quartet: Crazeology
by Luigi Sforza
Leggibilità e leggerezza sono gli elementi che contraddistinguono la musica di Crazeology, album del Marcello Tonolo Quartet, che già nella scelta grafica--ricalco delle grandi copertine anni '50--consente una lettura di stili che l'ascolto, poi, in qualche modo conferma. Si tratta sostanzialmente di un progetto in cui si riconoscono chiaramente elementi paradigmatici di origine marcatamente ...
Kit Downes: Tricko
by Bruce Lindsay
Tricko pairs composer and keyboard player Kit Downes with cellist Lucy Railton on a set of Downes' compositions. It's a delightful pairing, creating distinctive tunes inspired by minimalism, mutability and a few of the mysteries of the world. Downes and Railton met when they were studying at London's Royal Academy Of Music. Downes has ...
Alan Courtis & Aaron Moore: Bring Us Some Honest Food
by John Eyles
Bring Us Some Honest Food marks an important landmark for Dancing Wayang. Since its first release, A Gold Chain Round Her Breast by Motor Ghost, in 2007, this is the label's tenth album. That total of ten records in eight years is indicative of the care and attention that is lavished on every aspect of each ...
John Clark: The Odd Couple Quintet +1
by Jack Bowers
"And now," as John Cleese used to intone on the Monty Python television series, “for something completely different." In this case, a jazz quintet (+1) sporting a front line of French horn and bassoon and performing, among other things, two horn concertos by Mozart. An odd coupling? At first blush, it would seem so. Far less ...
Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2014
by Jack Bowers
Another year, another splendid album by the exemplary Howard University Jazz Ensemble from Washington, DC. Not that that should surprise anyone; Fred Irby III, who is completing his fortieth year as the band's first and only director, has ushered his students into a recording studio for the last thirty-nine of them, dating back to the days ...
Claudio Cojaniz: Stride. Vol. 1
by Neri Pollastri
Claudio Cojaniz non abbandona la sua performance d'elezione -il piano solo -anche adesso che, accanto alla formazione del trio, si dedica alla guida di gruppi più ampi, l'ultimo dei quali è il sestetto di Hispanish & Blues Songs (clicca qui per leggere la recensione di un concerto del gruppo). In questo caso il ...
Ray Anderson's Organic Quartet: Being the Point
by Stefano Merighi
Un suono scuro, profondo, indeterminato nelle intenzioni, trova improvvisamente la luce del calypso. Una luce che spinge la musica verso una danza sinuosa, scattante. È l'inizio di Being the Point, disco che riporta Ray Anderson alle sue passioni per il blues, per New Orleans, per i ritmi obliqui già frequentati all'epoca di Slickaphonics. ...
Satoko Fujii Tobira: Yamiyo Ni Karasu
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Satoko Fujii, based now in Berlin, makes uniquely tumultuous music, intersecting a rolling and tumbling near chaos with moments of pastoral beauty and fierce, pounding grooves. Ever restless, she forms new groups filled with fearless musicians with always interesting results. She debuted her Satoko Fujii New Trio in 2013 with Spring Storm, (Libra Records), and ...
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