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Svend Asmussen: Embraceable
by Chris Mosey
In 1987 when he was a young man of 70, Svend Asmussen played a gig in a small club in Paris. This year, on the eve of his 100th birthday, the Danish violinist rediscovered a tape made of the evening for a Parisian radio station. He says: “I assumed it would be just another radio show ...
Lage Lund: Idlewild
by Andrew Luhn
Guitarist Lage Lund's previous two albums as a leader for the Criss Cross label utilized the quartet setting with Ben Street on bass, Bill Stewart on drums, and Aaron Parks on piano for 2013's Foolhardy and Edward Simon in the piano chair for 2009's Unlikely Stories. For 2015's release “Idlewild" Lund brings back his familiar rhythm ...
Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille: Song For A New Decade
by Glenn Astarita
Finnish multi-reedman Mikko Innanen (Delirium, TUMO) is not short on ideas, here on this bracing 2-CD set recorded in New York with the all-universe rhythm section of bassist William Parker (CD-1 only) and drummer Andrew Cyrille. A fresh voice on the Euro progressive jazz scene, Innanen has imparted his skills amid collaborations with jazz and improvising ...
Ma: Live
by Bruce Lindsay
Ma is part of London's endlessly intriguing Loop Collective, a grouping of younger-generation musicians and bands that includes pianist Ivo Neame, vibes player and drummer Jim Hart, trumpeter Rory Simmons and many others. Saxophonist Tom Challenger leads Ma: he's joined in the core trio by Matt Calvert on synths and laptop and by Dave ...
The Susan Krebs Chamber Band: Simple Gifts
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Susan Krebs and her musical friends have been putting together thematically-programmed salon concerts in living rooms and small venues for a number of years. Out of that experience comes Simple Gifts, a salon sampler of sorts that gives the at-home listener a taste of the ideas and arrangements that came about through these performances.
Paul Kane and Katie O’Looney: Seven Catastrophes in Four Movements
by John Eyles
Seven Catastrophes in Four Movements continues the distinguished and eclectic history of collaborations combining poetry with jazz or improvised music. It is a meeting between US poet Paul Kane (also Professor of English at Vassar College) and the Irish improvising sonic & visual artist Katie O'Looney. When the two met at a poetry reading in the ...
Kevin Fort: Red Gold
by Edward Blanco
Chicago-based educator and jazz pianist, Kevin Fort unveils his debut and first solo album on Red Gold, where he presents an exciting session of light contemporary jazz employing a standard piano trio to document fresh new arrangements of several standards and three original compositions. An active musician in Chicago's vibrant jazz scene for the past fifteen-years, ...
Sigurdur Flosason and Kjeld Lauritsen: Nightfall
by Chris Mosey
Icelandic saxophonist Sigurdur Flosason gets a pretty unique sound out of his instrument. His silky, rhapsodic style of playing harks back to Johnny Hodges but with more bite. There are only the very faintest echoes of Charlie Parker and hardly any of John Coltrane. Yet Flosason is both inventive and soulful. This is ...
Velkro: Don't Wait for the Revolution
by Vincenzo Roggero
In comune hanno un background profondamente radicato nel folklore della propria terra, poi poco altro. A cominciare dalla nazionalità -Bostjan Simon è sloveno, Stephan Meidell norvegese e Luis Candeias portoghese -proseguendo con gli interessi musicali che spaziano dall'hip hop al noise, dal rock alternativo all'elettronica e al jazz. La sfida di Velkro, questo ...
Stefano Luigi Mangia: Cagexperience
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il trentatreenne leccese Stefano Luigi Mangia si è andato negli ultimi tempi affermando come una delle voci maschili più interessanti del panorama nazionale di ricerca. In questo lavoro monografico su John Cage, gli è prezioso sodale il corregionale Gianni Lenoci, che le note di copertina accreditano genericamente all'elettronica, mentre è tutto un florilegio di suoni e ...
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