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Goat's Notes: Wild Nature Executives
by Vincenzo Roggero
Goat's Notes è un sestetto proveniente da Mosca (in alcuni brani si allarga fino a tentetto), che pratica i sentieri della libera improvvisazione con l'approccio cui ci hanno spesso abituato le formazioni provenienti da quella scena musicale. Se quindi il free è l'ancoraggio principale all'idioma jazzistico altri ingredienti giocano un ruolo fondamentale nella fantasmagorica proposta musicale ...
Larry Fuller: Larry Fuller
by Dan Bilawsky
Bassist Ray Brown sure knew how to pick his pianists. While each player who manned the 88s in Brown's trio displayed a different personality, all had Swiss watch timing and shared an affinity for the blues and effulgent swing. It didn't take more than a few seconds to hear that when Gene Harris was on the ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Great Lakes Suites
by Dan McClenaghan
Two of the most enduring voices avant-garde jazz belong to trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and reedman Henry Threadgill. Smith's The Great Lakes Suites, six of his distinctive compositions on a two CD set, teams the two icons inside the equilateral quartet that includes drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist John Lindberg. It sounds like a dream team, ...
Karl Seglem: NyeSongar.no
by Jakob Baekgaard
Looking at the cover of the album NyeSongar.no, there's no doubt that the Norwegian saxophonist and goat horn-player Karl Seglem is still exploring the Nordic aesthetic that he perfected on his album NORSKjazz.no (Ozella, 2009). The resemblance between the titles is striking and it is underlined by a Nordic iconography. NORSKjazz.no had an image of tall ...
Fabio Delvò: Rastplatz
by Vincenzo Roggero
Il sassofonista Fabio Delvò ha già lasciato più di una interessante testimonianza della sua arte dapprima con la militanza nella Flight Band di Biagio Coppa successivamente con i suoi progetti da leader (il disco DNA del 2012), e co-leader (il recente Differential Equations con il chitarrista americano Jeff Platz). Questo Rastplatz -area di sosta lungo le ...
Vana Gierig: Making Memories
by Neri Pollastri
Quarto CD da leader ed esordio con la Enja per il pianista tedesco Vana Gierig, studi bostoniani e illustri collaborazioni con Eddie Gomez e Wynton Marsalis, oltre che con Paquito D'Rivera, ospite anche in questo Making Memories. Il lavoro ruota attorno al trio di Gierig, che lo vede accanto al batterista Marcello Pellitteri ...
Stefano Bollani: Joy in Spite of Everything
by Ian Patterson
Like a kind of musical contortionist, Stefano Bollani keeps repositioning himself with eye-popping ease. The diversity and eclecticism of Bollani's projects are reflected in the sweeping breadth of his vocabulary; his output as leader on ECM alone, since his debut Piano Solo (ECM, 2006), is indicative of his adventurous spirit. That solo outing was followed by ...
Gjertrud Lunde: Hjemklang
by Jakob Baekgaard
Music is a language that speaks in several tongues. This statement is taken quite literally on Norwegian songstress Gjertrud Lunde's album Hjemklang where she sings in her own native language, as well as English, Norwegian, French and Portuguese. Each language is a new instrument for Lunde, a range of vocal possibilities, shades and ...
Pharoah & The Underground: Spiral Mercury
by Troy Collins
The formation of the Chicago Underground collective in the late '90s provided cornetist Rob Mazurek with an unrestrictive setting to explore the endless possibilities of creative improvised music with his Windy City peers. A lengthy sojourn in Brazil followed, resulting in a similar project--the São Paulo Underground. Mazurek's international activities subsequently established him as a prolific ...
Abbey Rader: The Message
by Hrayr Attarian
Drummer Abbey Rader's four decades long career has been one of intrepid innovation and creative ingenuity. His unique approach to his instrument brims with unconventional virtuosity and a deep spiritual sense. His The Message on his own Abray label, is a three part, entirely improvised suite recorded live in Miami in January of 2014. Sort of ...
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