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Slowly Rolling Camera: Juniper
by Geno Thackara
If Slowly Rolling Camera isn't already working on a film score or two, then some director somewhere is really missing out. The Welsh outfit occupies a beautifully lush spot in the music world at the intersection of jazz, trip-hop and soul-soothing electronica. It's sweeping yet intimate stuff, vivid and emotional on a widescreen scale in hi-def. ...
Martin Nevin: Tenderness is Silent
by Troy Dostert
After numerous sideman appearances with a wide swath of the jazz world, from Albert “Tootie" Heath to Greg Osby and Ambrose Akinmusire, bassist Martin Nevin felt it was time to take on a more prominent role. For Tenderness is Silent, his debut disc as a leader, he's assembled a top-flight band, especially as these players are ...
Cyrille Aimée: Cyrille Aimee Live
by Chris Mosey
As a little girl, Cyrille Aimée would climb out of the bedroom window of her home in Samois-sur-Seine, near Fontainbleau in northern France and run off to join local gypsies by their camp fires, playing jazz and singing just as they did with Django Reinhardt (who is buried nearby). Reinhardt never managed to ...
Rob Mazurek: Marfa Loops Shouts and Hollers
by Karl Ackermann
In recent years trumpeter and electronic composer Rob Mazurek has gained prominence as a visual artist whose work has been shown on three continents. Besides giving its name to this audio collection, Marfa Loops Shouts and Hollers has been a link to additional musical and visual projects emanating from Mazurek's home base of Marfa, Texas. His ...
Jared Gold: Reemergence
by C. Andrew Hovan
The title of organist Jared Gold's newest release seems to suggest that he is returning to the fold after being away for a time. In actuality, he has been a mainstay on the New York scene for some time now and can boast eight previous albums as a leader dating back to 2008's Solids ...
Orbital Quintet: Vol.2
by Mike Jurkovic
Seemingly influenced by any music that passes their inquisitive collective ear, Oakland's Orbital Quintet second offering, Vol. 2, opens the quixotic “Devil's Breath" with a blare that morphs to a languid simmer of guitar hijinks courtesy of DV Wright. With music that conjures an explorative jazz band from David Lynch's hallucinatory Twin Peaks, Orbital ...
Baden Powell: Tristeza on Guitar
by Chris May
2018 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the German jazz label MPS. To mark the occasion, the label's catalogue of over 400 albums has been released on download, and a vinyl and CD reissue programme has begun. Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell's Tristeza on Guitar is among the first of these discs. Originally released in ...
Pete Lee: The Velvet Rage
by Roger Farbey
The title of pianist and composer Pete Lee's debut album derives from Alan Downs's book The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World. Perhaps by way of explanation, Lee has added a short word on the inside cover of the CD digipak; “I mean for this album to be ...
Paul Rogers & Emil Gross (Peal): Bag of Screams
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il veterano bassista inglese Paul Rogers, membro storico del quartetto Mujician, e il ben più giovane percussionista austriaco Emil Gross, stilisticamente piuttosto onnivoro, compongono il duo protagonista di questo album, inciso a Vienna nel settembre 2016 e dedito alla pratica, decisamente diffusa, dell'improvvisazione totale. Il contrabbasso di Rogers, su suo stesso brevetto, prevede ...
LiveHuman: ScratchBop
by Enrico Bettinello
La formula è quella del trio, ma con basso (Andrew Ross Kushin) e batteria (Albert Mathias) non c'è un piano, una chitarra o un sax, ma i giradischi di Dj Quest. Non inganni l'inizio sornione e ambientale, a partire da “Miles From Miles" si viaggia a pieno regime, grazie al virtuosismo dei giradischi ...
