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Brass Mask: Spy Boy
by Karl Ackermann
The UK based octet Brass Mask was conceived in 2012 by reedsman Tom Challenger. Challenger, who very recently released the unique Wedding Music duo recording with Kit Downes (Loop Records, 2013), has plied his trade with the likes of Django Bates and many of the young improvisers that make up the progressive Loop Collective. On Spy ...
Black Host: Life in the Sugar Candle Mines
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gerald Cleaver è tra i musicisti più versatili della scena odierna. Molto apprezzato dai colleghi, lo si può incontrare in contesti molto diversi, da quello di carattere libero ed esplorativo al più strutturato e perfino mainstream, e sempre la sua percussione si rivela adeguata, ricettiva, ricca di autorevole personalità. Sono così numerose le occasioni in cui ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il giro del jazz in 80 stili! Abbiamo imparato in questi anni a conoscere le strategie creative dei Mostly Other People Do the Killing: grande ironia, una dieta onnivora, la capacità di accendere di colori fluorescenti i linguaggi che siamo soliti immaginare in bianco e nero, un approccio al virtuosismo basato sul paradosso e l'eccesso. Nemmeno ...
Kosi: One More Cup Of Coffee
by Chris Mosey
In her own words, Kosi is “a New York born and bred singer-songwriter with nappy hair and jazz roots." She is the author of a stream-of-consciousness blog about her life of which the following is an extract: “I haven't washed my hair or shaved my arm pits (sic). I've brushed my teeth, but ...
Kaz Simmons: Signs
by Bruce Lindsay
It's album number four from London-based singer and songwriter Kaz Simmons. It's called Signs. It deftly explores the fertile ground that encompasses jazz, folk and the quirkier end of '70s British psych-rock--and it's a joy. Simmons has slimmed down her band for Signs--a small but perfectly formed quartet share the musical honors, compared to ...
Miles Davis: Legendary Concerts
by Chris May
Like the curate's egg, parts of trumpeter Miles Davis' 1980s recordings and performances were excellent, and others considerably less so. The 1985 Columbia album, You're Under Arrest--of which the CD/DVD set Legendary Concerts was a partial live performance, with one important personnel change--was the strongest of the early to mid 1980s albums, on which keyboardist Robert ...
Lisa Engelken: Lisa Engelken - Little Warrior
by C. Michael Bailey
Polymathic in her talent and approach, vocalist Lisa Engelken further cements her status as a far-reaching artist, established on the previous Caravan (Self Produced, 2010), with the present Little Warrior. Described as, “part freight train, part junkyard trombone," Engelken is 100% an American, hailing from the Kansas heartland where she obviously picked up fluency in Portuguese, ...
David Sills: Blue's the New Green
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist David Sills opens his Blue's the New Green with tenor sax titan Sonny Rollins' tune, “No Moe." But Sills doesn't use Rollins' musculature or his burly tone. He rolls more in the mode of sax men Joe Henderson or Stan Getz--or, to take it back further, Coleman Hawkins or Ben Webster, with a smooth, vibrato-less ...
Jonas Kullhammar Quartet: Låt Det Vara
by Mark Corroto
If someone told you that jazz wasn't invented in America, you would say they were crazy. Insane. Next thing they might submit is that Christopher Columbus didn't discover the New World. Oops, okay discounting the Native Americans already here, there's that Scandinavian guy Leif Ericson that came through the East Village about 500 years before Chris. ...
Levin Minnemann Rudess: Levin Minnemann Rudess
by John Kelman
For a first crack at a fresh idea for Lazy Bones Records--three well-known musicians brought together to create improv-based music with a minimum of planning--Levin Torn White (2011) was a set that, beyond finding common ground amongst bassist/stick master Tony Levin, guitar sound sculptor David Torn and drummer Alan White, also proved, unequivocally, that White is ...
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