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Jamie Reynolds: Counterpart
by Dan Bilawsky
The space between traditionalism and experimentalism is a tough place to live. The bulk of the attention usually goes to those who work at these polar extremes, either bowing to the altars of tradition or knocking them down with sledgehammers. Pianist Jamie Reynolds does neither when he writes and plays. Reynolds' debut--Time With ...
PJ Rasmussen: Another Adventure
by Jakob Baekgaard
There are many different ways to travel. While most people travel geographically, guitarist PJ Rasmussen likes to travel in sound. Another Adventure is the title of his second album and finds him, as the title implies, in an musically adventurous mood. “Full Speed Ahead" begins the journey with a larger than life guitar ...
Ian Carey and Ben Stolorow: Duocracy
by Jeffrey Uhrich
Trumpeter Ian Carey and pianist Ben Stolorow shed all inhibitions and strip down to the bare essentials with their provocative new release, Duocracy. As seasoned veterans of the San Francisco Bay area jazz scene, Carey and Stolorow each have released critically acclaimed albums as leaders and began playing together while gigging in the Bay Area. The ...
Adasiewicz - Erb - Roebke: Yuria's Dream
by Glenn Astarita
Experimental saxophonist Christoph Erb recorded this lone 43-minute track in Chicago with prominent improvisers and composers, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and bassist Jason Roebke amid a tour of the US. Here, the trio articulates an immense plane of perceptions, and if charted, may appear as a histogram that contains various deviations from the mean, when considering dips ...
Nils Bo Davidsen: Noget at glæde sig til: Solooutburst In Various Frames Part I
by Eyal Hareuveni
Danish bassist Nils Bo Davidsen is a prolific musician in the vibrant Danish jazz scene who performed and recorded with such greats as John Tchicai, Dave Liebman, Tim Berne, Marc Ducret and Dr. Eugene Chadbourne. He led his own ensembles (Jazz til Tiden Ilk Music, 2011), collaborated with trumpeter Kasper Tranberg (zone Blue (Ilk Music, 2012) ...
Alessandro Sacha Caiani: Die Kupplung lassen
by Neri Pollastri
Prosegue la produzione del giovane sassofonista milanese Alessandro Sacha Caiani (il secondo nome rinvia alle sue origini russe), che in questo CD autoprodotto “restringe" a quartetto il gruppo del precedente Effetti Ludici (Silta 2009) e mette in scena una serie di brani che potremmo definire delle libere ballad dal tono tra l'acido e il drammatico.
Julie Sassoon: Land of Shadows
by Alberto Bazzurro
Con questo live tedesco dell'aprile 2012 (tre date diverse, a Colonia, Dessau e Berlino), la pianista inglese Julie Sassoon approda al suo secondo album in solitudine, dopo New Life, del 2006. Lo contraddistingue un fluire alquanto particolare, che se da un lato lascia ammirati (e seduce, anche) appunto per l'originalità di prospettiva, dall'altro appesantisce non poco ...
Kristóf Bacsó Quartet: Nocturne
by Paolo Peviani
Nonostante qualche apparizione a festival italiani, e alcune collaborazioni con musicisti italiani (Nico Morelli, Giovanni Mirabassi), il sassofonista ungherese Kristóf Bacsó è tuttora poco conosciuto nel nostro paese. L'ascolto di Nocturne, secondo album pubblicato da Bacsó con il suo quartetto, ci permette di colmare questa lacuna. Bacsó è infatti uno dei più interessanti ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: Switch
by John Kelman
Sometimes when forced into change, the best thing to do is toss what came before and shoot for something completely different. With Stian Westerhus leaving trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's trio after three years of extensive touring and the sole, spectacular document Baboon Moon (Sula, 2011), Molvær's career--defined, since emerging in the mid-'80s with the acclaimed group ...
Noshir Mody: Stories from The Years of Living Passionately
by Karl Ackermann
A random sampling of Stories from The Years of Living Passionately could easily leave the impression that this is a hybrid of cool jazz, classical and world music. Even that broad an assumption would not be a comprehensive representation of Indian born Noshir Mody's complex, multi-layered collection of original music. A self-taught guitarist, he can invoke ...
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