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Pete Rodriguez: El Conde Negro
by Dan Bilawsky
Pete Rodriguez isn't a purist. He knows his salsa, as one would expect of the offspring of famed salsa vocal icon Pete “El Conde" Rodriguez, and he knows his jazz. But this trumpeter-vocalist sees no need to draw strong separation between the two. In creating El Conde Negro, Rodriguez mines Nuyorican musical veins and jazz lodes, ...
Samuel Blaser Quartet: Spring Rain
by Troy Collins
Spring Rain is Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's first release for the British imprint, Whirlwind Recordings. A sublime homage to the visionary work of under-sung innovator Jimmy Giuffre, the album features Blaser's current working quartet with Russ Lossing on piano and analog keyboards, Drew Gress on upright bass, Gerald Cleaver on drums, and Grammy winning producer Robert ...
Taylor's Universe: From Scratch
by Dave Wayne
If nothing else, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and studio rat Robin Taylor is consistent. Stylistically, he's done it all. His recordings-all self-produced and issued on his own Marvel of Beauty imprint-over the past two decades encompass everything from ambient soundscapes to free improvisation to straight-up hard rock. The past decade or so finds Taylor working exclusively with what ...
Kris Davis Infrasound: Save Your Breath
by Vincenzo Roggero
Insolito l'Infrasound Octet allestito dalla pianista/compositrice/bandleader Kris Davis per la realizzazione di Save Your Breath: quattro grandi interpreti della famiglia dei clarinetti (Ben Goldberg, Oscar Noriega, Joachim Badenhorst e Andrew Bishop), le alchimie dell'organo di Gary Versace, la chitarra mutante di Nate Radley, la batteria proteiforme di Jim Black ed il pianoforte della stessa Davis. Insolita ...
Marcello Giannini: Frammenti
by Angelo Leonardi
Il chitarrista napoletano Marcello Giannini ha già avuto modo d'imporsi in significative e variegate collaborazioni: con Enrico Rava (On the Dance Floor), i 99 Posse (Cattivi Guaglioni e Curre Curre Guagliò 2.0), Daniele Sepe (Canzoniere illustrato), Cristiano Arcelli (Brooks), il gruppo Slivovitz e altri. Questo disco, realizzato per l'etichetta di Marco Valente, è il ...
Gianni Lenoci, Kent Carter, Bill Elgart: Plaything
by Libero Farnè
Ancor più di altre incisioni più o meno recenti, Plaything conferma la dimensione “internazionale" della musica di Gianni Lenoci. Non solo perché il pianista barese, per quanto solitamente appartato e schivo, non esposto quanto si vorrebbe nel circuito concertistico, si relaziona e dialoga abitualmente con improvvisatori stranieri d'indiscussa levatura, ma soprattutto per la grana qualitativa e ...
Balkanica: Balkanica
by Alberto Bazzurro
È il ventottenne pianista cosentino Danilo Blaiotta il principale responsabile del quintetto protagonista di questo album, quintetto nato nel 2011 con l'intento di mettere a decantare insieme tutta una tradizione musicale--nel rispetto della “ragione sociale"--balcanica (materiale proveniente da quelle latitudini ma anche composto ex-novo) con le istanze del linguaggio jazzistico e improvvisativo in senso lato, nonché ...
Hiroshi Fukutomi: Memory Stones
by Ian Patterson
Osaka-born, Berklee-trained and currently plying his craft in Tokyo, guitarist Hiroshi Fukutomi's second release as leader following Rings of Saturn (D-Musica, 2010) is a satisfyingly melodic affair. These ten originals reveal Fukutomi's ability to pen a good tune, as well as his dexterity on both electric and acoustic guitars. Pianist/Rhodes player Koichi Sato, bassist Koji Yasuda ...
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter
by Budd Kopman
The closing track of bassist Chris Lightcap's muscular and vibrant Epicenter is a very intense and almost brutal version of Lou Reed's “All Tomorrow's Parties" from the 1967 release Velvet Underground & Nico. This tune, which is among Reed's most highly crafted works and which captures the essence of both the times and its subculture, is ...
Serbian Jazz BRE: Serendipity
by Nenad Georgievski
What began as a multimedia jazz experience, a combination of straight ahead jazz music and series of photographs by the band's instigator and producer Ivan Grlić, soon evolved into a live video extravaganza with video projections that run in the background whenever the band is playing live. First there was a book with photographs, which were ...
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