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The Pitch: Frozen Orchestra (Amsterdam)
by Glenn Astarita
Frozen Orchestra (Amsterdam) is an appropriate moniker for these two works performed live at an Amsterdam venue by the core Berlin-based quartet The Pitch, with assistance from a combination of six woodwinds and strings performers. With inadvertent semblances to minimalist composer Morton Feldman, the music is largely about ever-so-subtle shifts in sound design and pitch. As ...
José James: Yesterday I Had the Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday
by Mark F. Turner
There are many reasons why singer Billie Holiday is so admired--her captivating beauty, crafted phrasing, and the singular way she imbued emotion through each note. Yet the jazz legend known as “Lady Day" not only sung the blues, she lived it. In a storied life filled with heartaches, hardships and personal demons that included a long ...
Steve Turre: Spiritman
by C. Andrew Hovan
There seems to be two schools among the current generation of jazz trombonists. On the one hand you have those who favor the lush and melodic voices of Frank Rosolino, Lawrence Brown, Carl Fontana, and those of a similar ilk. By contrast are the bop inflected approaches of J.J. Johnson and Curtis Fuller. Turre has gone ...
Barney McClure: Show Me!
by Jack Bowers
While organist Barney McClure receives top billing on this exhilarating new album, he is happy to share it, for good reason, with the superlative Central Washington University Jazz Band from Ellensburg. As McClure asserts in the liner notes, “I was no more than a lucky rider on the bus." Well, a bit more than that, Barney, ...
Mark Helias Open Loose: The Signal Maker
by John Sharpe
Bassist Mark Helias runs a tight ship. Not in the sense of tricksy arrangements or impossible time signatures. It's more the laser sharp focus his accomplished Open Loose combo brings to the job in hand. And that job is breathing bustling and unpredictable life into the baker's dozen selections that constitute The Signal Maker, the unit's ...
Mari Koga: Perfect Blue
by Edward Blanco
Japanese-born vocalist Mari Koga has been living in New York for some time now, performing in the City's most prestige's jazz clubs and making a name for herself in one of the most vibrant jazz scenes around. With the help of long-time friend and fellow Japanese artist, pianist Chiemi Nakai, Koga now presents her astonishing debut ...
Marius Neset: Pinball
by Vincenzo Roggero
Potremmo parlare di prove tecniche per un grande album, qualcosa che si possa avvicinare allo stato dell'arte attuale nella già corposa carriera di Marius Neset. Pinball, questo il titolo del CD, si lascia apprezzare parecchio, motivi di interesse ce ne sono, più di uno, dalla scrittura brillante e dal respiro orchestrale alla registrazione impeccabile, dal pieno ...
The Humble Organisms: Humble Beginnings
by Angelo Leonardi
Chi ama il funk degli anni sessanta nella classica formula con chitarra elettrica e organo hammond non si lasci sfuggire questo disco, che recensiamo con un po' di ritardo rispetto alla sua uscita negli Stati Uniti. The Humble Organisms è un quartetto operante a Chicago che rinnova la formula strumentale e la musica di ...
Sarah Moule: Songs From The Floating World
by Bruce Lindsay
Class will out, as they say. It's certainly true on this album--class bursts out of Songs From The Floating World. From Sarah Moule's sophisticated, cool, vocals and the stylish playing of the cream of British jazzers, through to Simon Wallace's music and arrangements and Fran Landesman's inimitable lyrics, everyone involved with this fine album is a ...
James Falzone: The Room Is
by Mark Corroto
Legend has it that Jimmy Giuffre harbored a vehement distaste for the use of percussion in his ensembles. He found drummers distracting, irritating and clamorous. By the time he recorded the classic records 1961 (ECM, 1992) and Free Fall (Columbia, 1963) he had jettisoned drummers from his piano and bass trio. It must have driven marketing ...
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