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Zoe & Idris Rahman: Where Rivers Meet
by Chris May
The Bengali folk and film music inspired Where Rivers Meet introduces a radical and beautiful new direction for the London-based pianist Zoe Rahman and her clarinetist/saxophonist brother, Idris. Born and brought up in Britain by a Bengali father and English mother, Zoe Rahman describes herself as culturally “very English," and her previous work has ...
Maria Pia De Vito & Huw Warren: Dialektos
by Chris May
Italian jazz, world and classical singer Maria Pia De Vito has a penchant for British pianists. Before hooking up with Huw Warren, in the late 1990s/early 2000s she made three albums with John Taylor, including her breakthrough set Phone (Egea, 1998). For his part, Warren has an affinity with singers. A long-time accompanist and ...
radio.string.quartet.vienna with Klaus Paier: Radiotree
by Chris May
Following their high octane homage Celebrating The Mahavishnu Orchestra (ACT, 2007), Austrian conservatoire rebels radio.string.quartet.vienna return, in part, with a salute to their fellow countryman, keyboard player Joe Zawinul, who passed in 2007. The quartet, augmented by accordionist Klaus Paier, offer striking interpretations of three of Zawinul's compositions--the iconic "In A Silent Way," from ...
Lafayette Gilchrist: Soul Progressin'
by Chris May
Baltimore pianist Lafayette Gilchrist has a style which satisfyingly combines two very different aesthetics: the funky and the sophisticated. He's been compared to keyboardists and composers Andrew Hill and Sun Ra, but his approach is more closely rooted in bassist Charles Mingus' work as a leader. Where Mingus' rhythmic and emotional foundation for composition and arrangement ...
Ingrid Laubrock: A New Saxophone Colossus
by Chris May
With Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008), Ingrid Laubrock--a uniquely adventurous saxophonist and bandleader on the British scene since mid decade--has made an album so exceptional that the German-born, London-based musician hasn't gone so much global as galactic. Deep, singular and utterly compelling, Sleepthief features Laubrock in a trio with British pianist Liam Noble and ...
Gabriele Mirabassi: Canto di Ebano
by Chris May
Is Italian clarinetist Gabriele Mirabassi's Canto Di Ebano jazz? Traditionalists would probably say no, for the album owes little to the American jazz tradition, and even less to the African-American strand within it. But will jazz fans enjoy it? Yes, certainly, many of them, for the music is rich in rhythmic vitality, spontaneity, lyricism and improvisation, ...
Ingrid Laubrock with Liam Noble & Tom Rainey: Sleepthief
by Chris May
Listen, this is true. With Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock--since mid decade amongst the most interesting saxophonists and bandleaders on the British scene--has made an album so exceptional that it positions the German-born, London-based player as perhaps the most daring and exciting saxophonist anywhere in the world in 2008. It really is that extraordinary--and momentous--a release.
Joe Lovano: Symphonica
by Chris May
Sumptuous and cinematic, a retrospective with a spin, Symphonica is the first album saxophonist Joe Lovano has recorded in its entirety with a full symphony orchestra. Playing mainly tenor, he revisits six of his favorite original compositions (and Charles Mingus' “Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love"), written over the last 20 years, with the massed strings, woodwinds ...
Oddjob: Sumo
by Chris May
Swedish band Oddjob have been together since 2002, ploughing a melodic and groove-centric furrow built on the electric jazz-fusion of the 1970s, and staying the right side of “ambient" thanks to the brio and creativity which they bring to the music. On Sumo--their fourth album and ACT debut--the band have widened their sights to include funk, ...
Charles Lloyd: Dream Weaver - The Charles Lloyd Anthology - The Atlantic Years 1966-1969
by Chris May
Beautiful and absorbing though most of them are, Charles Lloyd's discs on ECM, with whom the reed player has been recording for almost twenty years, have tended to overshadow the wonderful albums he made with the Charles Lloyd Quartet for Atlantic forty and more years ago.With Atlantic, Lloyd notched up eight LPs recorded in ...
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