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Roil: Raft of the Meadows
by John Sharpe
Established in 2007, Roil comprises three Australians from the Sydney jazz scene, sharing pianist Chris Abrahams with that other better known Antipodean combo The Necks. Like that last outfit Roil manifests as an egalitarian concern, continuing in the lineage trailblazed by Bill Evans in the 1960s via Howard Riley's trio with Barry Guy a decade later. ...
Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Jeremiah
by Mark Corroto
The seventh album by guitarist Jon Lundbom and his septet Big Five Chord leaves little room for fence sitters. His music, like fellow band members Jon Irabagon and Moppa Elliott of Mostly Other People Do The Killing, walks the razor's edge between clamorous and cultured. It's comfort is often the discombobulation. That said, isn't that what ...
Beat Funktion: Mandy's Secret
by Geannine Reid
Beat Funktion; what is its funktion? Daniel Lantz is the man behind Beat Funktion's unique sound that blends '70s funk, groove, soul, disco and afro-beat with the language and sensibilities of jazz. Beat Funktion pays close attention to getting across the more danceable and familiar binary rhythm, that is felt as the “groove." That is what ...
Ernst Reijseger, Harmen Fraanje, Mola Sylla: Count Till Zen
by Luca Muchetti
Ascoltate questo album, perché è una delle più belle collezioni di brani pubblicate in questi ultimi cinque anni. Dei tanti modi in cui ci si potrebbe divertire tentando di definire nel modo più attuale il jazz (chissà poi perché e con che diritto) in Count Till Zen troverete ipostatizzata in dieci brani la definizione più estensiva ...
No Pair: Chaos and Order
by Giuseppe Segala
No Pair, il quartetto guidato da Francesco Chiapperini, ha già al proprio attivo una collaborazione importante, dello scorso anno con Tim Berne. È una formazione compatta e ben amalgamata, che interpreta le musiche del leader con forte adesione emotiva e convinzione, mettendo in scena con efficacia i contrasti timbrici, dinamici e stilistici proposti dalle belle composizioni. ...
André Jaume 4tet: Smthg Close to Smthg
by Alberto Bazzurro
Anzitutto una necessaria premessa: la strana sigla ripetuta nel titolo sta per “something" (quindi Something Close to Something) e rimanda a un vecchio album di André Jaume intitolato appunto Something e datato 1990 che sta alla base dell'incontro fra il polistrumentista marsigliese (qui in realtà solo tenorsassofonista) e il chitarrista (ma a sua volta anche polistrumentista) ...
Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band: Certain Relationships
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band continues to spread sunshine and happiness on Certain Relationships, an album recorded in three sessions spanning the half-dozen years between 2005-2011. Of the fifteen selections, nine are vocals --by Pete McGuinness, Hilary Gardner, Andrea Wolper, Mary Foster Conklin or Dominique Eade. In Lillard's optimistic eyes, even the blues are gladsome ...
Rashied Al Akbar / Muhammad Ali / Earl Cross / Idris Ackamoor: Ascent of the Nether Creatures
by John Sharpe
The Lithuanian based No Business label deserves an award for its unstinting documentation of the loft jazz scene in NYC during the 1970s and early '80s. Often characterized as a time when nothing was happening, the reality couldn't be further from the truth. With the influx of new talent from the mid-West and California, the performance ...
George Spanos: Dreams Beyond
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer George Spanos' exodus from Greece to New York City has resulted in a speedy indoctrination into its fertile nu-jazz scene, performing at The Stone and other popular venues with notables such as electronics wiz Ikue Mori and cellist Erik Friedlander. But Spanos has made the rounds in Europe and Canada, where disparate influences have cultivated ...
Grateful Dead: Europe ‘72
by C. Michael Bailey
When asked the best introduction to the Grateful Dead for the uninitiated, I recommend Europe '72. That opinion has not changed in the intervening 40 years. This tour is one storied in the history of the band. It was the group's great bluesman, Ron “Pigpen" McKernan's last tour before he died of drink at the age ...
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