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Tim Gill & the Tim Gill All-Stars: Small Batch Bourbon
by Edward Blanco
The second album from trumpeter, vocalist and big band leader Tim Gill & the Tim Gill All-Stars, Small Batch Bourbon features spirited arrangements of fifteen tunes from the American Songbook, the pop idiom and other classic standards in showcasing good old-fashioned straight ahead, traditional big band music at its best. One thing is for sure, the ...
Mauro Ottolini Sousaphonix: Musica per una società senza pensieri
by Neri Pollastri
Ci sono musicisti che travalicano generi ed etichette, anzi vanno aldilà anche del genere “musica," perché--per esuberanza, fantasia, radicamento del loro senso dell'arte entro il più vasto universo sociale e umano--necesitano di una progettualità che coinvolge oniricamente altri scenari. È il caso di Mauro Ottolini, che con le sue formazioni non manca mai di eseguire progetti ...
Benny Lackner Trio: Siskiyou
by Dan McClenaghan
The photo on the main page of Benny Lackner's website shows the pianist with one hand on an acoustic piano, the other plying the keys of a laptop computer. That's where his muse has taken him-into a very contemporary electro/acoustic piano trio mix with drummer Matthieu Chazarec and bassist Jerome Regard. Siskiyou is Lackner's ...
George Crowley: Can Of Worms
by Bruce Lindsay
A tin full of slimy, wriggly, things bursts open, scaring the oddly mismatched young couple. It's not your usual jazz album cover art, but it suits the title of the second album from young UK saxophonist George Crowley--Can Of Worms--and Crowley carries on the motif with further creepy-crawlies on the inside of the sleeve. Not that ...
Sam Trapchak: Land Grab
by Mark F. Turner
Sam Trapchak's debut as a leader, Lollipopocalypse (Raw Toast Records, 2011) highlighted a double-bassist with formidable abilities and forward thinking music performed by an exceptional crew of like-minded musicians. Land Grab furthers his exploits of jazz off-the-beaten-path. This time around, the music delves into freer and more adventurous designs with plenty of room ...
Hildegard: Hildegard
by C. Michael Bailey
If audio releases were ships following one another and I was standing on the deck of Sasha Masakowski's debut recording, Wishes (Hypersoul, 2011), I don't think I could have seen as far away as needed to spy her follow-up Hildegard. Certainly not without a telescope. Like Wishes which Masakowski made with her ensemble, the Musical Playground, ...
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter
by Luca Canini
Ha ancora senso parlare di mainstream? Esiste un jazz che guarda al futuro riuscendo allo stesso tempo ad essere immediatamente riconoscibile e masticabile anche da chi di jazz poco, o niente, ne capisce? Domande oziose soltanto all'apparenza. Che nel loro studiato candore squarciano il velo di una dicotomia che a uno sguardo distratto può apparire insanabile: ...
Emanuele Maniscalco, Francesco Bigoni, Mark Solborg: Maniscalco Bigoni Solborg
by Vincenzo Roggero
Potremmo definirla con un termine di frequente usato e talvolta abusato improvvisazione da camera, per la pacatezza dell'ambientazione sonora, per la cura maniacale delle dinamiche, per l'assoluto controllo degli strumenti mai sopra le righe, per il rigore formale che pervade l'opera. Potremmo ma... sarebbe un torto nei confronti di un lavoro che va ben oltre i ...
Last Exit: Iron Path
by Mark Corroto
In saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's interview memoir We Thought We Could Change The World (Wolke Verlag Hofheim, 2014) he spoke about meeting Sonny Sharrock in Berlin 1969, when the guitarist was working for Herbie Mann. Brotzmann never forgot the meeting, and when bassist Bill Laswell conceived the idea of Last Exit in the mid-1980s, Sharrock was on ...
Jared Gold: Metropolitan Rhythm
by Dan Bilawsky
Jared Gold remains one of the most dependably creative artists in the Posi-Tone stable. He's delivered an album a year for that label since arriving with Solids & Stripes (Posi-Tone, 2008), a date that, in many respects, set the tone for the other trio and quartet sessions that would follow. Here, on his eighth release for ...
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