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Irene Schweizer / Jurg Wickihalder: Spring
by John Sharpe
On his only previous session in duet with piano -A Feeling For Someone (Intakt, 2008) -Swiss reedman Jurg Wickihalder's indebtedness to that master of the straight horn Steve Lacy was still evident. But on Spring, in the company of the iconoclastic pianist Irene Schweizer, Wickihalder sounds entirely his own man. Both principals boast serious avant-garde credentials, ...
Morten Kargaard Septet: Origin
by Budd Kopman
The Danish jazz scene is very alive and eclectic as shown by Origin, composer and guitarist Morten Kargaard's beautiful album that defies all attempts at attaching a label. The question, “What is jazz?" is not answered within the album's musical universe and for that matter, neither is the even wider notion of “creative improvised ...
Costanza Alegiani: Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair
by Neri Pollastri
Disco molto particolare questo di Costanza Alegiani, che unisce tradizione classica, contemporaneità e improvvisazione, ma anche musicisti di aree e cultura diversa, belga e italiana. Il lavoro fa parte di un progetto più ampio ispirato al Macbeth e all'Otello di Verdi, sebbene la quasi totalità delle musiche siano della Alegiani, oppure interamente improvvisate dal settetto. I ...
Hyungjin Choi: Tales of a Dreamer
by Angelo Leonardi
È un delizioso debutto questo di Hyungjin Choi, pianista coreana dal 2008 a New York dove ha perfezionato i suoi studi alla New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Dopo aver collaborato con artisti di rilievo come Reggie Workman, Charlie Persip, Billy Harper o Sam Yahel, ha coronato il sogno d'incidere un disco da leader con ...
Ron Thomas Trio: Impatience
by Dan Bilawsky
A brief glance at pianist Ron Thomas' website is enlightening, to say the least. He chronicles his life there, providing a detailed biography, a rundown of commercially available compositions, a list of his colleagues, mp3 files, a discography, essays, videos, photos, teaching information, and a list of influences, with names both familiar (Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock) ...
Marcos Eduardo Villalta: Sir Kep's Mummy Tummy
by Stephen Hornby
We live in a world in which anyone who has a laptop has access to an almost infinite array of sonic possibilities and can draw inspiration from any corner of the earth or pocket in time. This kind of freedom can be creatively paralysing for some while others may respond by narrowing their gaze. Marcos Eduardo ...
Gianni Lenoci / Kent Carter / Bill Elgart: Plaything
by John Sharpe
Italian pianist Gianni Lenoci forms one apex of a trio with almost unlimited collective nous on Plaything. There are main two reasons for that: Kent Carter on bass and Bill Elgart on drums, both veterans of the 1964 October Revolution in Jazz, who have since carved niches for themselves in Europe. Carter 's early exposure arrived ...
Various Artists: Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66
by John Eyles
This two-CD (or three-LP) compilation covers a period of musical history that remains under-documented but has been hugely influential on the ensuing half century. It brings together thirty-eight tracks by musicians of Nigerian or Ghanaian origin, recorded in Nigeria, Ghana or London, between 1954 and 1966. An indication of the music's vintage is that many of ...
Steven Bernstein, Paolo Fresu, Gianluca Petrella, Marcus Rojas: Brass Bang!
by Vincenzo Roggero
All'inizio c'è la voce di Steve Bernstein che su un sottofondo di fanfara snocciola una sequenza di frasi in italiano maccheronico, da turista fai da te, poi irrompe Duke Ellington, la sua “Black and Tan Fantasy" ha pienezza orchestrale, colori vividi e sorprendente delicatezza. Anche i Rolling Stones? Così parrebbe perché l'inconfondibile melodia di “As Tears ...
Basak Yavuz, David Liebman, Peter Eldridge: Things...
by Angelo Leonardi
Una giovane professionista turca -architetto di successo--appassionata di Norma Winstone ed Helen Merrill, va negli stati Uniti, si diploma alla Manhattan School Of Music e conquista la stima dei suoi docenti che accettano di sostenerla nel debutto discografico. Questa è, in breve, la genesi del disco di Basak Yavuz, un'originale vocalist e autrice che ...
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