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Ionisation: Galen
by Libero Farnè
Il panorama dell'attuale jazz svizzero, forse meno appartato di un tempo, è ricco di proposte avanzate e ben documentate su disco. In esso il giovane batterista Jonas Imhof s'inserisce perseguendo un avant jazz non particolarmente innovativo e sostanzioso, che ricerca tuttavia con grande coerenza classici equilibri, sonorità rotonde e un incedere ponderato. In questo disco Imhof ...
Wayne Coniglio / Scott Whitfield: Fast Friends
by Jack Bowers
Clever title, this. Trombonists Wayne Coniglio and Scott Whitfield. Friends? For almost two decades. Fast? Listen to a few bars of “Les Demoiselles de Rocheforte," “Fried Pickles" or “Bernie's Tune" and decide for yourself. The opinion here is what they do on trombone (tenor and bass) is fast indeed. Having said that, however, it should be ...
Alan Chan: Shrimp Tale
by Jack Bowers
Big bands these days are being taken in many directions, one of which is eastward. Alan Chan, born and raised in Hong Kong and educated in part in the U.S. (at the universities of Miami and Southern California), has deftly blended Asian tradition with American jazz on Shrimp Tale, the splendid debut recording by his three-year-old ...
KonstruKt with Marshall Allen: Live At Sant’anna Aressi Jazz Festival
by Mark Corroto
I have seen the future of free jazz (to paraphrase rock critic Jon Landau) and it's name is KonstruKt. Born in Turkey, but cross-fertilized by a global phenomenon of visiting jazz bees: Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, and Marshall Allen who perform and pollinate the flowering creative music scene. This quartet of saxophonist ...
Christopher Parker: Full Circle
by Jakob Baekgaard
Pianist Chris Parker is a musical explorer. He has travelled around the world musically and as his latest album Full Circle indicates, he has reached his destination and found an aesthetic where all the different aspects of his musical curiosity come together. While Parker travels a lot musically, he doesn't visit the melancholy ...
Inside Jazz Quartet: Portraits
by Neri Pollastri
Un quartetto paritetico composto da musicisti di esperienza e riconosciuto valore mette in scena brani di alcuni dei più importanti protagonisti del jazz moderno quali sono Steve Swallow e Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk e Carla Bley, per arrivare fino a Yusef Lateef. Non c'è invero nulla di “rivoluzionario," né di particolarmente “innovativo" nell'album, ...
Lubos Soukup: Through the Mirror
by Angelo Leonardi
Il secondo album da leader del sassofonista ceco Lubos Soukup è un lavoro dagli intenti ambiziosi, e per vari aspetti riuscito, che porta il suo quartetto al confronto con differenti ambiti espressivi: da un lato dinamiche orchestrazioni jazz di taglio mainstream e dall'alto sperimentazioni cameristiche di stampo contemporaneo. Dopo aver studiato al conservatorio ...
Pulcinella: Bestiole
by Bruce Lindsay
Pulcinella shares its name with a character from the Commedia dell'Arte--he figures rather charmingly on the band's website--and declares its mix of jazz, rock, tango and Baltic traditions to be “delocalised jazz." Presumably this refers to the music's international identity--no single place can lay claim to the Pulcinella sound. Bestiole, Pulcinella's third album since saxophonist Ferdinand ...
Tommy Smith/Brian Kellock: Whispering of the Stars
by Dan McClenaghan
Tommy Smith is known best for his directorship of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. The group has emerged as one of the finest of big bands with offerings like the classic In the Spirit of Duke (Spartacus records, 2013), a tribute to Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue (Spartacus Records, 2006), an extended and stunning remake of ...
Andres Thor: Nordic Quartet
by Jakob Baekgaard
Even though it is a small country, Iceland has produced many interesting jazz musicians. Among them, pianists Sunna Gunnlaugs and Eythor Gunnarsson, saxophonist Óscar Gudjónsson and bassist Skúli Sverrisson. Add to this list guitarist Andrés Thor. As a musician, Thor has the distinctive lyrical beauty of many of his countrymen, but he is ...
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