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Franz Hautzinger / Julo Fujak / Zsolt Sörés: Live in Brussels

Read "Live in Brussels" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 6, 2014

This meeting of three distinct European sound sculptors--Austrian Franz Hautzinger on quarter-tone trumpet, Slovakian Julo Fujak on prepared piano, bowed bass guitar and objects, and Hungarian Zsolt Sörés on viola and electronics--was recorded live at Studio Odeon 120 in Brussels in November 2011. It features this occasional trio searching for fresh, intuitive codes of making music. ...

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Jonathan Moritz Trio: Secret Tempo

Read "Secret Tempo" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 5, 2014

Libera improvvisazione che sgretola i fondamenti strutturali del jazz, l'amore per la musica classica e per i lavori orchestrali di Webern, il canto degli uccelli, il suono possente di Ben Webster. Sono questi gli elementi che ispirano Secret Tempo, album per Hot Cup licenziato dal Jonathan Moritz Trio. Ed è una vera gioia ...

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Doc Stewart Big Band Resuscitation: Code Blue!

Read "Code Blue!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2014

"Doc" is much more than a nickname to Chris Stewart: it's a profession. And straight-ahead jazz is far more than a pastime: it's a passion. For the past sixteen years, Doc Stewart's day gig has been ER physician at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Scottsdale, AZ. Long before that, however, Stewart was a working musician who ...

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Steve Khan: Subtext

by Dan Bilawsky
June 5, 2014

Guitarist Steve Khan's latter day work has been increasingly focused on Latin jazz fusion of various shapes, so the scope and direction of Subtext should come as no surprise to his longtime followers. This album arrives three years after Parting Shot (Tone Center, 2011) and runs along similar lines. That one was an originals-heavy, percussively-coated session ...

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Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Travel Notes

Read "Travel Notes" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2014

Travel Notes, the seventh album by the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra, is much like the first half-dozen: big-band jazz whose design and performance are as consistently strong and artistic as one can envision at any level. Tom Knific, WMU's director of Jazz Studies since 2000, has a keen ear for engaging songs, one of which ...

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Michael Musillami Trio: Pride

by Karl Ackermann
June 5, 2014

With ten albums as a leader in his portfolio, guitarist and composer, Michael Musillami remains disproportionately under the radar in the public domain. Working in formats from duo to octet and inspired by classic artists like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Musillami has a gifted touch for arranging the traditional and highly improvisational together in accessible ...

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Jason Roebke: Combination

Read "Combination" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 5, 2014

Chicagoan double bassist Jason Roebke has developed a distinct sound of his own, intensely physical, audacious and highly rhythmical. He leads and plays in bands on both sides of the Atlantic, including the trans-Atlantic The Whammies dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy, and drummer Mike Reed's People, Places and Things. Roebke's ...

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Space F!ght: Sci-Fi

by Bruce Lindsay
June 4, 2014

Question: what inspires a band called Space F!ght to create a recording called Sci-Fi? Answer: the works of classic science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov. Question: will such inspirations result in music that's worth listening to, music that excites, that bears repeated listening, that's enjoyable? Answer: yes. Radek Rudnicki, Space F!ght's leader, composer ...

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Frank Harrison Trio: Lunaris

Read "Lunaris" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 4, 2014

London-based pianist Frank Harrison is probably best known for his work backing saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, but his Lunaris should help to raise his profile as a major league piano trio guy. It's Harrison's third recorded effort in the trio format, and it stands out in a crowded field full of talent. Harrison and the ...

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Alan Broadbent And NDR Bigband: America The Beautiful

Read "America The Beautiful" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 4, 2014

Being a part of the big band sound was an experience pianist Alan Broadbent embraced, endured and eventually, wanted to step away from. Orchestra music--comprised of boisterous reeds and brass sections--were far too loud and too big drowning out the finesse sounds of the acoustic piano. When Broadbent left the Woody Herman Big Band in 1972, ...