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James Witherite: Please Do Not Clap On One and 3
by Edward Blanco
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer James Witherite delivers his third album as leader and his second organ trio offering on Please Do Not Clap On One and 3, presenting a repertoire of eight original pieces and a fresh new arrangement of Billy Joel's classic “New York State of Mind." A Pittsburgh-born, Western Pennsylvania native who now makes ...
Atomic: Lucidity
by Glenn Astarita
There's an inference on this Norwegian ensemble's webpage bio that its blend of free-jazz and dynamic mode of operations is the antithesis to their fellow countrymen's largely quaint or ethereal jazz output evidenced on ECM Records, for example. However, it's not that these innuendos or tenets are viewed as negatives, but the highly respected musicians comprising ...
Malte Schiller Octet: All the Way
by Alberto Bazzurro
Malte Schiller prosegue nella sua opera di mescolamento dei due ceppi da cui evidentemente proviene, per storia personale (è di Berlino) e adesione emotiva: il jazz e la tradizione europea. In questo album, inciso a fine 2012, lo fa in particolare raddoppiando il proprio quartetto con una sezione altrettanto numerosa di violoncelli. Sei ...
Paul Jost: Breaking Through
by Vincenzo Roggero
Non fatevi ingannare dalla scaletta dei brani contenuti in Breakin Through, tutti da annoverare tra i classici del jazz, della musica brasiliana, del musical, del soul. Perché bastano poche battute di “Singing in the Rain" per capire di che pasta è fatto il nostro. Voce screziata, leggermente abrasiva ma calda, che arriva direttamente al cuore -Ray ...
Samo Salamon Bassless Trio: Little River
by Dan Bilawsky
To call guitarist Samo Salamon prolific would be something of an understatement. Over the past decade Salamon has released more than fifteen albums, most of which document different cross-cultural trio and quartet explorations. His discography includes albums like Two Hours (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006), a rhythm-plus-horn date with left-of-center players like tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby ...
Lisanne Tremblay: Violinization
by Dan McClenaghan
Say “jazz" and the musical instrument that comes to mind might be the saxophone or the trumpet. Say “classical" and it's probably the violin. But there's a long history of players of that have taken that quintessentially classical instrument and moved into the jazz/improvised music world: Stephane Grappelli (1909-1997) and his swinging Quintette du Hot Club ...
Mano A Mano: Mano a Mano
by Chris Mosey
Mano a mano is Spanish for hand to hand as in unarmed combat. Nowadays it is used in much the same way as the English expression head to head, and doesn't imply anything too serious. This is just as well because the two guitarists going hand to hand here are brothers. Bruno and ...
Johnny Griffith: Dance With The Lady
by Edward Blanco
Canadian saxophonist and composer Johnny Griffith is a multi-JUNO Award nominee and leads a vibrant quintet of first-call musicians on their debut recording entitled Dance With The Lady, comprised of nine stellar originals in the contemporary jazz mold exhibiting influences from the great Joe Henderson, Kenny Wheeler, Andrew Hill and Anton Weber among others. Grounded in ...
The Urge Trio: Live in Toledo
by Glenn Astarita
Swiss reedman and noted improviser Christopher Erb performs with likeminded Chicago cohorts, cellist Tomeka Reid and reedman Keefe Jackson, captured during the final gig of their 2013 US tour at the Robinwood Concert House in Toledo, OH. Hence, they vibrantly interact and create a predominately stark or perhaps naked soundscape, devised on minimalism, pathos, probing dialogues ...
Giovanni Guidi: This Is the Day
by Libero Farnè
Dopo City of Broken Dreams, edito sempre dalla ECM all'inizio del 2013, ecco il secondo disco del trio di Giovanni Guidi. All'ascolto di This Is the Day, registrato nell'aprile 2014 da Stefano Amerio, uno dei tecnici oggi prediletti da Manfred Eicher e non solo, si ha la precisa sensazione di trovarsi di fronte ad un'operazione tipicamente ...
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