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Pete Roth Band: Circus In The Sky
by Bruce Lindsay
It's virtually impossible for any contemporary musician to have emerged in isolation--to have developed a style or technique unaffected by those who have gone before. Guitarist Pete Roth is no exception--the press release name checks John McLaughlin, Jonathan Kreisberg and John Scofield as contributing to the German-born, London-based player's approach to his chosen instrument. On Circus ...
Eric-Maria Couturier / Henri Roger / Emmanuelle Somer /Bruno Tocanne: Parce Que!
by Eyal Hareuveni
The cover of French pianist Henri Roger's latest album, Parce Que! , delivers no information about its title, musicians, the recording etc. Just a plain dark painting and a barcode on the back cover. The mysterious cover, designed by Anne Pesce, is the inspiration for a set of collective improvisations by Roger, together with cellist Eric-Maria ...
Sun Ra And His Arkestra: In The Orbit Of Ra
by AAJ Staff
Nell'anno del centenario della nascita di Sun Ra le iniziative sono state innumerevoli, ma mancava un vero e proprio “Greatest Hits," concetto che in sé sembra certamente piuttosto inadatto (e per certi versi anche antitetico) all'idea musicale dell'indimenticabile pianista e band leader di Saturno, Alabama, ma che risponde comunque a un'esigenza comprensibile. Il ...
Pierre Dorge and New Jungle Orchestra: Tjak Tjaka Tchicai
by Maurizio Zerbo
Gli appassionati del jazz orchestrale non si lasceranno certamente sfuggire questo CD, che Pierre Dorge dedica al sodale John Tchicai scomparso nel 2013. Le undici composizioni proposte non si discostano dall'estetica sino ad oggi perseguita dal chitarrista danese. Vi si scorge ancora una volta un personale ripensamento del jazz orchestrale d'avanguardia attraverso una condotta strumentale ludica ...
Cantus: A Harvest Home
by C. Michael Bailey
There are two major names on the block regarding male vocal ensembles: San Francisco's Chanticleer and Minneapolis' Cantus. The latter releases A Harvest Home, a collection of Autumn pastoral affairs celebrating the traditional season of Thanksgiving. This follows last year's release of Songs of a Czech: Dvorak and Janacek for Men's Voices (Cantus, 2013), a fine ...
Daniel Schlaeppi: Voices Live
by Budd Kopman
For what more could one ask? A live gig, excellently recorded; an appreciative audience; a band which is sharp as a tack that comes charging out of the gate smoking, playing music to which one cannot help but move. The previous live album of bassist Daniel Schlaeppi, was Dimensions Live, and he ...
Mark Meadows: Somethin’ Good
by Geannine Reid
Mark Meadows is a multifaceted jazz pianist, composer and jazz educator. Besides regularly performing across the U.S, Meadows also teaches four courses as an adjunct instructor at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. During the 2014-2015 season, Meadows is appearing alongside world-renowned musicians such as: Warren Wolf, Cyrus Chestnut, Dontae Winslow, Kris ...
Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under the Moon
by Roger Farbey
"Oyster Trails" opens this fascinating potpourri of new talent with Lauren Kinsella's ethereal vocals at times eerily channelling the late Sandy Denny. The darker “Somewhere" is an acid-tripped version of the Arlen and Harburg classic “Over the Rainbow" and is frenetic and astoundingly effective with Laura Jurd's scintillating trumpet to the fore. A dawn chorus appropriately ...
Patrick Hall: Time Remembered: The Music Of Bill Evans
by John Ephland
The unconventional inside a conventional skin. That's what we have here with trombonist Pat Hall's offering Time Remembered: The Music of Bill Evans. Playing it from the bottom up, so to speak, Hall's approach to the Evans corpus (along with two standards associated with the late pianist, Rodgers and Hart's “Spring Is Here" and Earl Zindars' ...
Lara Solnicki: Whose Shadow?
by Everett R. Davis
Canadian contemporary jazz vocalist, published poet and composer, Lara Solnicki originally intended a career in opera but turned to jazz in 2008 following a brief collaboration with a classical composer, in a conscious attempt to marry her two arts, music and poetry. She has emerged from the Canadian scene with a spellbinding voice and is highly ...
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