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Matt Garrison: Patchwork
by Dan Bilawsky
Instead of simply homing in on one specific musical coordinate, saxophonist Matt Garrison decided to widen his focus and hit a few different targets with his third album. The aptly-titled Patchwork finds him looking toward “initial musical influence, educational influences, and current outcomes." It's a collection of Garrison's personalized yesterday-meets-today musical scenarios. It's ...
Euforquestra: Fire
by Chris M. Slawecki
Although Fire is their fourth studio album, it also marks two milestone “firsts" in the history of jam masters Eufórquestra: The band's first studio album since the live album Let Us In straddled their 2009 relocation from Iowa City, Iowa, to Fort Collins, Colorado; and their first studio album managed by an external producer, keyboardist Kyle ...
BossaCucaNova: Our Kind of Bossa
by Chris M. Slawecki
Our Kind of Bossa celebrates fifteen fun years of BossaCucaNova, one of Brazil's most adventurous contemporary ensembles (and was also timed to coincide with Brazil hosting the 2014 soccer World Cup). These eleven tracks fuse the electro-bossa nova for which the group is best known with samba and other dance rhythms from their homeland, and celebrate ...
EGG3: The Butcher Diarias
by Eyal Hareuveni
The marriage of jazz--in all its incarnations--and metal may sound at first as a sacrilegious act but not for a creative musician in the vibrant Norwegian music scene. Norwegian metal bands defined the black metal sub-genre in the eighties and nineties. Moreover, the young generation of Norwegian jazz-trained musicians ignore the American strictly codified version of ...
Katja Cruz, Oliver Lake: Hexaphone
by Alberto Bazzurro
Registrato dal vivo a Graz nel dicembre 2012, Hexaphone (sottotitolo The Cosmology of Improvised Music) ha svariati pregi, fra cui quello di offrire i sette ampi brani che lo compongono sia in versione audio che video. Certo, ciò potrà indurre più d'uno a tuffarsi a pesce sul DVD, anche in considerazione del fatto che la componente ...
Franca Masu: Almablava
by Neri Pollastri
A tredici anni dal suo primo album, El mio viatge, a dieci esatti da quell'Alguìmia che ce l'aveva fatta scoprire come originalissima interprete del dialetto catalano parlato nella sua Alghero, e dopo un lavoro--l'ultimo, Hoy como ayer, del 2008--interamente dedicato al tango, Franca Masu torna ad Alghero, come lei stessa afferma nelle belle note di copertina: ...
The Basin Street Brawlers: It's Tight Like That
by Bruce Lindsay
It's Tight Like That! is the debut release from the Basin Street Brawlers. Self-styled “purveyors of hot jazz"--indeed, with laudable hubris, “London's own master exponents of hot jazz"--the Basin Street Brawlers hark back to a bygone age, when sharp suits were de rigueur and bands that failed to get their audiences dancing would soon be excluded ...
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire
by Troy Collins
...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire is an epic four-part suite based on the fictitious songs found scattered throughout celebrated author Thomas Pynchon's early novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow. Oboist Kyle Bruckmann conceived this post-modern “musical phantasmagoria" as the first long-form composition written for Wrack, his experimental chamber jazz ensemble, employing an expanded ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger
by Dan McClenaghan
The short version of pianist Jo-Yu Chen's biography: Born in Taiwan, started with music in the classical realm, moved to New York to study oboe and piano at Julliard School, and fell under the spell of jazz. That's not an unusual back story in the world of jazz, with the exception of her Taiwanese roots. The ...
Ralph Bowen: Standard Deviation
by Glenn Astarita
Tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen (Out Of The Blue, Horace Silver, Michel Camillo) is a highly regarded New York-based artiste and an idea man who can stand with the best of them. With his fifth solo venture for Posi- Tone Records Bowen tackles standards, and as the title intimates, he often deviates from the norm.
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