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Roscoe Mitchell Trio: Angel City
by John Sharpe
Throughout his career Chicago multi instrumentalist and composer Roscoe Mitchell has forensically examined two key polarities. More than most he has focused on the tensions between sound and silence and composition and improvisation. On Angel City, a continuous 55-minute opus recorded over two days in 2012 at Mills College in Oakland where Mitchell is professor of ...
The Electric Peanut Butter Company: Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics Vol 1
by Chris M. Slawecki
Helping to establish the progressive Latin-salsa Grupo Fantastico and Latin funk legends Brownout is apparently not enough for Adrian Quesada, a multi-instrumentalist who specializes in guitars and production. So he teamed up and began working with one of Ubiquity Records' most unique compositional and instrumental wizards, Shawn Lee, who leads the Ping-Pong Orchestra and specializes in ...
Mitch Shiner and the BloomingTones Big Band: Fly!
by Angelo Leonardi
Una splendida sorpresa! Il debutto di Mitch Shiner a capo della BloomingTones Big Band è un'ulteriore dimostrazione che il lavoro orchestrale negli Stati Uniti attrae molti giovani talenti e si configura come una vera tendenza. Abbiamo già considerato alcune ragioni in precedenti articoli ma possiamo aggiungere il prezioso apporto dato dalle università sparse nel ...
Beautiful Round: Beautiful Round
by Neri Pollastri
Il chitarrista Akira Ishiguro, di origini giapponesi ma cresciuto nel Wisconsin, è il leader di un quartetto che esiste dal 2012 e che ha registrato questo CD nell'aprile dell'anno successivo. La formazione, che accanto alla chitarra presenta una ritmica piano-contrabbasso-batteria, esprime un jazz moderno piuttosto convenzionale, che ruota attorno alle composizioni di Ishiguro, melodiche ma dotate ...
Tom Tallitsch: All Together Now
by Dan Bilawsky
All Together Now--the sixth overall effort from tenor saxophonist Tom Tallitsch, and his third for the Posi-tone imprint--is a well-balanced musical affair built around a surefooted and wholly capable sextet. Tallitsch works with a rhythm section and two other horns here, creating smart and uncluttered settings that showcase the musicians without boxing them ...
Barry Guy: Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett
by John Sharpe
Not to be confused with Fizzles (Maya, 1993), which contains the first documented version of the titular work along with other pieces for solo bass, Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett is a 14 minute limited edition EP which does what it says on the tin. Virtuoso British bassist Barry Guy has long drawn inspiration from other ...
Geo Progulakis Trio: Good Start
by Paul Naser
New York based pianist Geo Progulakis is definitely a talent to look out for. Having graduated from the New School and studied with greats like Kevin Hays and Aaron Goldberg, he is now an active performer in New York's thriving music scene. Progulakis released his debut album Good Start with his trio- consisting of ...
Gino Sitson: VoiStrings
by James Nadal
The categorization of Jazz Vocal," which through time has come to cover an expanding field of wide ranging artists, might not be the appropriate tag to hang on Gino Sitson.VoiStrings is a showcase for Sitson's vocal extensions to take on another dimension as he explores in depth the art of singing as instrumentation. Accompanied by a ...
Atlas Maior: Palindrome
by Chris M. Slawecki
Open the package for Atlas Maior's debut CD and here's the first line you read: Palindrome was completely improvised and recorded live with no overdubs." How you respond to these words will greatly shape how you respond to this music. A mainstay on the vibrant Austin (Texas) music scene since 2010, Atlas Maior boasts ...
Oguz Buyukberber, Simon Nabatov, Gerry Hemingway: Live at Bimhuis
by Vic Albani
Trentuno minuti e cinquantaquattro secondi possono bastare per dare un'idea delle indubbie capacità improvvisative di uno dei grandi nomi del free turco di questi ultimi lustri. Oguz Büyükberber, oltre che a Istanbul, è di casa anche ad Amsterdam, visto che ci vive e che con la crema della musica improvvisata europea si muove -a proprio agio ...

