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Laszlo Gardony: Serious Play
by Angelo Leonardi
Questo solo piano di Laszlo Gardony segue l'approccio usato nel 2013 in Clarity, quando, dopo vent'anni, riprese a incidere un disco senza accompagnatori (Changing Standards, Sunnyside 1993). Trasferitosi negli Stati Uniti alla fine degli anni ottanta per frequentare il Berklee College of Music (di cui poi è divenuto insegnante), il pianista ungherese realizzò alla fine di ...
Louis Moholo-Moholo's Five Blokes: Uplift The People
by John Sharpe
At last an album which captures some of the intense excitement, wayward adventure and sheer joy of a group which has wowed audiences at festivals and clubs across Europe and North America. Uplift The People by South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo's prosaically-named Five Blokes was recorded live at London's Cafe Oto in April 2017 and represents ...
Harold Land: A New Shade Of Blue
by Chris May
If Harold Land had left nothing else behind him other than the 1960 Contemporary Records album The Fox, a place in jazz history would be secure. The disc not only featured some of the finest mid-period hard-bop tenor saxophone to come out of the West Coast, but in Land's frontline partner, Dupree Bolton, it showcased a ...
Dave Gisler: Rabbits on the Run
by Glenn Astarita
Young Swiss guitarist Dave Gisler (Christoph Irniger's Pilgrim, Weird Beard) is gradually climbing the guitar hero stairwell, reaffirmed by this captivating trio date with his prominent fellow countrymen providing the oomph and pizazz throughout. And for those who need comparisons, think of Gisler's style skirting the peripheries of Sonny Sharrock, Jimi Hendrix and Bill Frisell, along ...
Joe McPhee / Pascal Niggenkemper / Ståle Liavik Solberg: Imaginary Numbers
by John Sharpe
Veteran multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee always seems open to encounters with like-minded spirits wherever he finds them. Some of his finest albums have stemmed from his collaborations with groups of younger musicians, such as Spontaneous Combustion (Otoroku, 2015) with Decoy and Skullduggery (Clean Feed, 2015) with Universal Indians. On Imaginary Numbers he teams up with two high-profile ...
Aca Seca Trio: Trino
by Alberto Bazzurro
A vent'anni dalla sua costituzione (1998, Università de la Plata, dove i tre musicisti erano studenti), il trio argentino Aca Seca esce con un nuovo album, come sempre infarcito di Latino-America--per dirla con Gato Barbieri--della più variegata acqua: la madre patria, ma anche Brasile e Uruguay, senza disdegnare climi più schiettamente montani (quindi andini), pur non ...
David's Angels: Traces
by Luca Muchetti
Lo spirito del grande nord converge in questo album, frutto della collaborazione fra la trombettista canadese Ingrid Jensen e la formazione svedese composta da Sofie Norling alla voce ed elettronica, Maggi Olin al pianoforte e Fender Rhodes, David Carlsson al basso elettrico e Michala Østergaard-Nielsen alla batteria e percussioni. David's Angels, che anche in questa produzione ...
Tony Kofi: Point Blank
by Chris May
British saxophonist Tony Kofi has made a specialism of heritage projects. Among the best of them is the Monk Liberation Front, a band which Kofi co-founded with pianist Jonathan Gee in 2003 and which performs Thelonious Monk's music. The work of Julian Cannonball Adderley is the focus of another venture. An early spin-off from the Front ...
Allen Austin-Bishop: No One Is Alone
by Chris Mosey
Possibly the best love song ever written, Ewan MacColl composed “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" for Peggy Seeger in 1957. She was in America. He was in England. Then, in those far off days before the IT revolution, when transatlantic calls cost a small fortune, he sang the song to her over the ...
Rich Halley 3: The Literature
by Jerome Wilson
Before now saxophonist Rich Halley has chosen only to play original music on all his recordings as a leader. Now, on his twenty-first disc, he changes up and goes back to what he calls “the literature," the music and musicians that influenced his career path. Most of what he covers here is by iconic jazz figures ...
