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Brandee Younger 4tet: Live At The Breeding Ground
by Dan Bilawsky
While a list of currently operating notables on nearly any given instrument could fill anywhere from a chapter to a book or two, a rundown of head-turning active jazz harpists might only fill out a very small portion of a leaflet. The most important among them--Latin jazz trailblazer Edmar Castaneda, refined role model Carol Robbins, and ...
Triosonic Rabbia, Maier, Battaglia: Anything Your Little Heart Says
by Alberto Bazzurro
Ha dovuto attendere quasi cinque anni questa registrazione, datata ottobre 2009, per vedere la luce, e verrebbe da chiedersi perché. In realtà non lo faremo, accontentandoci di analizzare un album che, visti i suoi tre artefici (e il precedente di cui diremo), desta forte curiosità anche a vederlo ancora imbustato. Va chiarito, per ...
Skykptn's 28: Skykptn's 28
by Vincenzo Roggero
Colpisce dapprima la strumentazione con una piccola sezione di archi, chitarra elettrica compresa, più batteria e sassofono. Poi durante l'ascolto è lo strano miscuglio di musica popolare, idioma jazzistico, musica da ballo, frammenti ambient, melodie folk, sparate free a scompigliare le carte. Viola e violoncello sono tutt'altro che decorativi, con incursioni anche violente sui registri acuti, ...
Yelena Eckemoff: A Touch of Radiance
by Greg Simmons
Trained in an intensive ten-year classical piano program at Moscow's Gnessins School, and after quietly making records for over two decades, Russian native Yelena Eckemoff has been transitioning to a form of hybrid, classically informed improvisation with some exceptional results. 2010's Cold Sun, a trio featuring the exquisite drumming of Peter Erskine, was a tremendous musical ...
InDuologue: Blue Skies
by C. Michael Bailey
A majority of jazz vocals discs I have heard in my 20 years of writing about them have included at least one voice-bass duet. It is a most effective format, but one not for the faint of heart as an artist. Both duet participants are more naked than in any larger format. It takes two performers ...
Borah Bergman/Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Michael Wimberly: Vita Brevis
by John Sharpe
Vita Brevis represents maverick pianist Borah Bergman's last session before his death at age 85 in 2013. In the liners label boss Joe Chonto speculates that Bergman suffered from undiagnosed Aspberger's syndrome. As such it's perhaps not a surprise that he found his niche in outsider music--the jazz avant-garde. However his musical ability was never in ...
Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert / Alexey Lapin: The Russian Concerts Volume 1
by John Eyles
Back in 2011, this trio released an excellent trilogy of albums which documented a December 2010 tour of Russia by Canadian alto saxophonist Francois Carrier and his long-time drummer Michel Lambert during which they played with Russian pianist Alexey Lapin in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Now, The Russian Concerts Volume 1 again documents the three together ...
Gianluca Petrella: Il bidone
by Vincenzo Roggero
In un'epoca in cui il mercato discografico abbonda di omaggi e “riscoperte sensazionali" non poteva mancare l'ennesimo tributo ad un autore amato come Nino Rota. Conosciuto dal grande pubblico per la sua decennale collaborazione con Federico Fellini e altri prestigiosi registi, Rota è stato un compositore classico di sicura rilevanza e i suoi lavori di musica ...
Giulia Barba: The Angry St. Bernard
by Luigi Sforza
Imbattersi in lavori che più o meno chiaramente riverberano creativamente capitoli fondamentali della storia musicale afroamericana e non suscita interesse, anche solo per la possibilità che hanno di creare inevitabilmente valore aggiunto. Se inoltre affiorano tipicità estetica, buon livello di scrittura, capacità di gestire e amalgamare i timbri, guidare un settetto davvero internazionale verso un jazz ...
The New York Standards Quartet: The New Straight Ahead
by Bruce Lindsay
The New York Standards Quartet (aka the NYSQ) formed around 2006, its members sharing a love of standards played with a contemporary edge. This, the band's fourth album, is called The New Straight Ahead. As band name and album title suggest, this is a collection of straight-ahead standards, given new arrangements and “redesigns" by the quartet. ...
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