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A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Liminal; Animistic; Holding Presence in Time; Holding Space; Tracers of Cosmic Space; Myopic Seer; A
Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet; Alluvial; Threadwork; All Alone Together.
Unknown Rivers
By Luke Stewart
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Seek Whence; Baba Doo Way; You See?; The Slip; Amilcar; Dudu; Unknown Rivers.
Color Systems
By Rob Mazurek
Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing: Four Page Color System for Louise Nevelson; Four Page Color System for Frank Bowling; Four Page Color System for Lygia Pape; Four Page Color System for Richard Tuttle; Nineteen Colors on a Three-Sided Box for Nuno Ramos; Three Colors on a Four-Sided Box for Ellsworth Kelly.
Camila Nebbia & Angelica Sanchez: In Another Land, Another Dream
by John Sharpe
Improvising with an instrument that can leave the tempered scale presents a considerable challenge to a pianist. However Angelica Sanchez aced the exam when she encountered tonally free-spirited Argentinean tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia at Brooklyn's IBeam in November 2023. Consequently there is the feeling not only of ongoing conversation on the six tracks that make up ...
Angelica Sanchez / Chad Taylor: A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet
by John Sharpe
Two of the leading lights on their instruments strike sparks in a series of impromptu duets on A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet. Pianist Angelica Sanchez has birthed a string of impressive releases, Nightmare Creatures (Pyroclastic, 2023) with her Nonet, and the twin keys extravaganza How To Turn The Moon (Pyroclastic, 2020) ...
Top Ten Sci-Fi Jazz Albums
by Chris May
On The Launch Pad Robert Frosch, head honcho at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1977 to 1981, wrote that at cocktail parties he was sometimes asked whether NASA had some gizmo or other that had recently been brought to fictional life in a sci-fi book or movie. If Frosch's answer was “No," the next ...
Patricia Brennan, Ola Tunji & Ingerbrigt Haker-Flaten
by Maurice Hogue
Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan put together a very strong ensemble to make Breaking Stretch, one of the best releases of 2024. Her original compositions and ever-growing skills on her instrument draw on elements of her native Mexico, and that helps to set apart this terrific new album. The free jazz scene of Mexico City gets additional space ...
Giovanni Guidi: A New Day
by Mark Corroto
There is some positive momentum surrounding Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi, especially with the trio he established with American bassist Thomas Morgan and Portuguese drummer João Lobo. Guidi's trio produced two excellent releases for ECM, City Of Broken Dreams (2013) and This Is The Day (2015). Their brand of music--let's call it the Bill Evans trio with ...
Jazz em Agosto 2024
by Petra Cvelbar
The 40th Jazz em Agosto dazzled from August 1 to 11, 2024, with an exhilarating lineup of 17 concerts across the Open-Air Amphitheatre, Grand Auditorium, and intimate spots like Auditorium 2. Over ten unforgettable days, the festival burst with incredible music, vibrant crowds, and delicious food, all set against the enchanting Lisbon sky. This ...
Rob Brown Quartet: Oblongata
by John Sharpe
Although reedman Rob Brown has a string of small group leadership outings to his name, dating back to his first, Breath Rhyme (Silkheart) in 1990, Oblongata may be one of his finest. The 2022 studio session reunites him with some of his most enduring collaborators, the same crew responsible for From Here To Hear (Rogue Art, ...
