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Mike DeiCont: DeiCont | Philips Collective
by Geno Thackara
Mike DeiCont and Allison Philips are the kind of players who don't want to just give you something unusual to listen to, but hopefully take you on a trip as well. It's unclear exactly where--probably to them as well as you--since the results are in territory so abstract it's off the map. Sometimes it's not even ...
Jambalaya 37: Cooking Groove
by Jim Olin
Cooking an amazing meal is a little bit like making music with a band. You have to know what ingredients harmonize well together, and you have to understand what it takes to add just the right spice to come up with a truly mouthwatering end result. It's about the magic of chemistry, how various pieces develop ...
Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis
by Vincenzo Roggero
Conosciuto principalmente per il suo decisivo contributo all'ottimo Speak Low di Lucia Cadotsch, il sassofonista e compositore Otis Sandsjo debutta per l'etichetta finlandese We Jazz con un quartetto di tutto rispetto ed un album dagli intriganti contenuti che non può lasciare indifferenti. Se si esclude la batteria, il resto del quartetto fa ampio uso dei sintetizzatori. ...
William Parker, Stefano Scodanibbio: Bass Duo
by Francesca Odilia Bellino
Ci sono CD che sono storici perché contengono un unicum musicale. Bass Duo rientra nella tipologia dal momento che documenta l'unico incontro musicale mai avvenuto tra i contrabbassisti William Parker e Stefano Scodanibbio realizzato nell'ambito dell'Udin&Jazz Festival del 2008. Due giganti del contrabbasso moderno, molto diversi per modo di suonare e per formazione, ...
Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth
by Roger Farbey
Taking inspiration from his 2017 release Harmony Of Difference, Kamasi Washington has once again employed the use of strings and choir on this gargantuan release. The sonic augmentation has the effect of rendering many of the tracks like a cross between John Coltrane and Carl Orff or perhaps Sun Ra and Sir Karl Jenkins.
Eddie Daniels: Heart Of Brazil
by Dan Bilawsky
When Resonance Records' George Klabin pitched Eddie Daniels on this project saluting Egberto Gismonti, the legendary reedist was enthused yet somewhat trepidatious. Gismonti's music--a sui generis form of fantasia that proves evocative in its blending of Brazilian forms, a jazz harmonist's argot, and European classical languages--is no easy nut to crack or translate. But Daniels, of ...
Tom Tallitsch: Wheelhouse
by David A. Orthmann
Tom Tallitsch's Wheelhouse is a recording in which something honest and genuine springs from the soil of a long established, familiar jazz style. Although pinning a hard bop label on the music is fairly accurate, ultimately it amounts to a quick, glib, descriptive fix that may distort or diminish the character of the record. The same ...
Christian Windfeld/Julius Schwing: Rhubarb
by Karl Ackermann
Bruny Island sits off the coast of the Australian state of Tasmania--the adopted home of guitarist Julius Schwing. With its iconic lighthouse, large populations of endangered bird species and spacious, uninhabited regions, Schwing, upon his first visit, found it an inspiration. Originally inhabited only by Aborigines, it is home to wallabies and penguins and provides an ...
Bongwool Lee: My Singing Fingers
by Paul Rauch
Much has been written about the different creative processes engaged between classical and jazz musicians, more specifically, as applied to the collective worlds of jazz and classical piano. New York based pianist Bongwool Lee has an intimate relationship with these perceived differences. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, she was exposed by her parents to a ...
Eric Wyatt: Look To The Sky
by Dan Bilawsky
Look To The Sky is a story of family, navigating the world of jazz, and extolling those who helped light the way. To call it a tribute record would be to frame it inaccurately, but it's most certainly built around the personalized song of praise. Saxophonist Eric Wyatt, a brawny Brooklynite with a ...
