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Erica Bramham: Songs From A Midnight Room
by Phil Barnes
Social media engagement can make all the difference for young artists seeking to build a following, but it can also distract. The virtual world demands constant novelty and 'events' and if you enter that maelstrom there is the ever-present fear of being forgotten as your posts slip off the bottom of your followers' phone screens. One ...
Christian Balvig 6-tet: Music for Humans
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il ventisettenne pianista danese Christian Balvig, qui al secondo album a suo nome, riunisce un quartetto d'archi (contrabbasso compreso) e una batteria per firmare un'opera svolta nel segno dell'ibridazione idiomatica. L'iniziale “Body Blankets" ce lo dice già piuttosto eloquentemente: l'attacco è squisitamente jazzistico, poi entrano gli archi e il clima si fa fisiologicamente più cameristico, di ...
Mathilde Grooss Viddal: Out of Silence
by Angelo Leonardi
Mathilde Grooss Viddal è una sassofonista e clarinettista norvegese che guida dal 2004 il Friensemblet, ampia formazione che lei stessa definisce free spirited jazz ensemble which plays worlds music in contemporary jazz. Una definizione che risulta particolarmente appropriata per questo disco che vede l'orchestra ospitare la flautista franco-siriana Naïssam Jalal. Quest'ultima all'inizio delle ...
Beverley Beirne: Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun
by Bruce Lindsay
What do the following artists have in common? Adam & The Ants, Foreigner, Kajagoogoo, Billy Idol, Bananarama, Right Said Fred, Kim Carnes. None of their songs are staples of the jazz vocalist's repertoire? Not long ago that would have been an acceptable answer, then British singer Beverley Beirne recorded her second album, Jazz Just Wants To ...
Adi Meyerson: Where We Stand
by Jerome Wilson
Adi Meyerson is a young bassist and composer living in New York City. She shows a healthy respect for jazz tradition on her debut CD but also shows the ability to play around with more open-ended musical forms. Most of the tracks have the feel of a hard-blowing '60s jazz combo with Joel Frahm's ...
Nick Biello: Vagabond Soul
by Paul Rauch
Alto and soprano saxophonist Nick Biello has been gaining momentum as an artist on the New York scene in the late 2010s, culminating in this recording for Truth Revolution Records, Vagabond Soul. His prodigious talent as an instrumentalist, composer and arranger is plainly on display on this significant offering, as it is on the myriad of ...
Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams: Vanished Gardens
by Luca Muchetti
Un incanto di album. La chitarra tesa, dai richiami folk e sognante è quella inconfondibile del maestro Bill Frisell, il sassofono è quello lirico di Charles Lloyd, il musicista che dal quartetto anni Sessanta con Keith Jarrett passò ai Celebration al fianco dei Beach Boys per poi tornare al jazz negli anni Ottanta e Novanta dopo ...
Håvard Wiik Trio: This Is Not a Waltz
by Enrico Bettinello
Tra i tanti talenti pianistici che vengono dal nord dell'Europa, quello di Håvard Wiik è tra i più luminosi e imprevedibili. Ben conosciuto con gli Atomic, come pure nel raffinatissimo progetto Free Fall di Ken Vandermark, Wiik è leader di grande intelligenza, come dimostra in questo nuovo lavoro in trio con i collaudati (già costituiscono la ...
Don Cherry: Home Boy, Sister Out
by Chris May
Don Cherry was in the vanguard of not one, but two uprisings which changed the face of jazz. He pioneered both the free-jazz revolution of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the world-jazz movement of the 1970s. Home Boy, Sister Out, first released on the French label Barclay in 1985 and reissued in summer 2018 ...
John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
The fulsome clarity of the monaural sound on Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album by John Coltrane may be just the gateway necessary to entice those listeners used to a single home speakers, ear buds or their smart phones. After all, as Ashley Kahn notes in his lengthy essay, this double set of compact discs ...
