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Freddie Hubbard: At Onkel Pӧ's Carnegie Hall
by Stefano Merighi
Se si dovesse per gioco indicare un trombettista della storia del jazz che sintetizzasse tecnica strumentale, flessibilità espressiva, capacità mimetiche in relazione al contesto e ricchezza di curriculum forse la scelta cadrebbe su Freddie Hubbard. Il suo aplomb di giocatore era mirabile, valgano per tutte le sue apparizioni a fianco di John Coltrane, in Out to ...
Maciek Pysz, Daniele Di Bonaventura: Coming Home
by Alberto Bazzurro
Undici brani, tutti di pugno dei due firmatari del disco, compongono questo elegante dialogo fra il bandoneon (nonché il pianoforte, anche con una certa generosità) del marchigiano Daniele Di Bonaventura e la chitarra (per lo più acustica) del polacco Maciek Pysz (in realtà ormai da una buona quindicina d'anni londinese d'adozione). Si parte ...
Sam Gendel: Pass If Music
by Mark Sullivan
Los Angeles-based alto saxophonist Sam Gendel produced every sound on this album live, using only his saxophone. But you would be unlikely to think so after hearing it. Opening track “Anemone Swerve" sounds like an outtake by trumpeter Jon Hassell--returning the favor for Hassell's reedy, somewhat saxophone-like trumpet sound. Gendel also favors the same sort of ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Live In Europe
by Jerome Wilson
For the past few years, pianist Fred Hersch has been releasing CDs with a regularity that would make them feel routine if the music wasn't always so good. This new one is another live effort featuring his long standing trio with John Hebert and Eric McPherson, this time recorded in Brussels. As usual, it's excellent.
Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble: Atwood Suites
by Dan Bilawsky
The marriage between jazz and poetry is having a true moment in the present artistic sphere. The two have long mixed and mingled, oft proving sympathetic and symbiotic in their multidirectional moves, unique cadences, and improvisational capacities. But never before has the connection been so strong and centralized. With drummer Matt Wilson's triumphant encounter with the ...
Thumbscrew: Theirs
by Karl Ackermann
It has been four years since Thumbscrew, the trio of guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, released their self-titled debut (Cuneiform Records, 2014). The trio is simultaneously releasing two albums--their third and fourth--Ours and Theirs on the same label. As the titles indicate, one album consists of original compositions and the other, ...
Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt: Jubilation!
by Jack Bowers
The complete title of this splendid album by alto saxophonist Jim Snidero and trumpeter Jeremy Pelt's New York-based quintet is Jubilation! Celebrating Cannonball Adderley. In other words, honoring the life and music of one of the jazz world's most illustrious altos, a consummate artist (and showman) who ranks alongside Bird, Stitt, Pepper, Konitz, Desmond, Woods, McLean ...
Ab Baars: And She Speaks - A Collection Of Ballads
by Mark Corroto
Mike Doughty of the rock band Soul Coughing wrote the lyric “is Chicago, Is Not Chicago..." to the song of the same name, followed by “a man cuts in half, just like he snaps a pencil..." The same could be said of And She Speaks -A Collection Of Ballads by saxophonist / clarinetist Ab Baars. This ...
Chris Kase: Let Go
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Chris Kase is one of those artists that those in the know, know. The trumpeter, who currently resides, teaches and performs primarily in Spain, is a superb player and composer. All those qualities can be seen in Let Go. It is an intelligent, thought-provoking display of his fine musicianship. “Teaser" opens the session ...
Renato Cordovani: Cordonbleux at NOF
by Neri Pollastri
Protagonista da quasi mezzo secolo della scena jazzistica fiorentina, il clarinettista, sassofonista e compositore Renato Cordovani (clicca qui per leggere l'intervista che gli abbiamo fatto) pubblica alla veneranda età di settant'anni il primo disco a proprio nome, con la partecipazione di antichi collaboratori e giovani leve della scena toscana. Il programma del lavoro, registrato ...
