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NYTC New York - Tokyo Connection: Precious Live at the B-flat
by Nicholas F. Mondello
It might be awkward and “punful" wordplay, but pianist and longtime Tokyo, Japan resident, Jonathan Katz--a scion of legendary Long Island music educator, Bill Katz--is and certainly will be by nature of this terrific recording--recognized as a very rising son. Fronting a swinging and well-communicating rhythm section and adding the superb talents of ...
Gabriel Espinosa/Hendrik Meurkens: Samba Little Samba
by Dan Bilawsky
The hundredth release on the Zoho imprint was the aptly-titled Celebrando (Zoho Music, 2012)--the debut collaboration between Gabriel Espinosa and Hendrik Meurkens. This follow-up date, arriving a little more than two years later, is cut from the same musical cloth, though a few minor personnel changes and role adjustments give this one its own identity.
Rachel Therrien: Home Inspiration
by Dan McClenaghan
The big challenge for the young musician is developing a distinctive voice. This goes not just for the instrumental side of the equation, but maybe even more so in the band they put together. Competence and even virtuosic flare are fairly common, but without the voice, the sound can come out bland, pasteurized. Trumpeter ...
Nucleus with Leon Thomas: Live 1970
by Roger Farbey
Almost forty five years after it was thankfully captured on tape, this first official release of the June 1970 Montreux Jazz Festival concert by British jazz rock pioneers Nucleus performing with American jazz vocalist Leon Thomas features a truly fascinating set of Thomas' repertoire and blindingly good performances all round. This seemingly ...
Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet: Afterimage
by Glenn Astarita
Boston, MA area pianist, composer Pandelis Karayorgis brandishes his magic at a Chicago venue with some of the Windy City's finest improvisers. He shifts many concepts with odd-metered progressions while straddling the avant-garde spectrum amid a manifesto based on cohesive discourses, where the hornists may purposely lag behind the beat or bust out into commodious movements. ...
Ideal Bread: Beating The Teens - Songs of Steve Lacy
by Alberto Bazzurro
Nuovo tributo, stavolta doppio (e quindi ancor più meritorio), all'arte di Steve Lacy da parte del quartetto capitanato da Josh Sinton (suoi tutti gli arrangiamenti), in questo caso attingendo a un repertorio molto specifico, visto che vi sono interamente riproposti i cinque LP incisi dal grande sopranista fra il 1969 e il 1977 per la Saravah: ...
Loren Stillman + Bad Touch: Going Public
by Libero Farnè
Evidentemente, come si può desumere da una serie di incisioni e concerti (vedi l'ultima edizione del festival di Saalfelden), ci troviamo di fronte ad una precisa tendenza estetica, in atto in America come in Europa: quella di rivisitare l'estetica e le modalità compositive e improvvisative del Cool storico (che era però più dinamico e spigoloso) e ...
Renaud Garcia-Fons: Beyond The Double Bass
by Dan Bilawsky
It's often tempting for musicians to project limitations onto an instrument, but in truth, the instrument rarely deserves blame; an instrument, after all, is simply an inanimate object, so it's up to the player to further, extend, and broaden its reach. Musicians looking to do so must master and move beyond standard technique and the stylistic ...
Wildbirds and Peacedrums: Rhythm
by Bruce Lindsay
As well as possessing one of the finest band names in contemporary music, Wildbirds And Peacedrums--Swedish husband and wife duo Andreas Werliin and Mariam Wallentin--has also produced some of the most intense, atmospheric and emotive songs. The trend continues on Rhythm, which the band describes as its “going back to our roots" album. Written, performed, produced, ...
Lars Greve: Breidablik
by Jakob Baekgaard
The beautiful cover of Danish saxophonist Lars Greve's album Breidablik has a secret that only reveals itself when looking closely at the surface. The name of the artist is hidden in the corner, printed with almost invisible letters, while all attention is directed towards an abstract sublime image. Is it nature or not? ...
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