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Kaja Draksler / Susana Santos Silva: This Love
by John Sharpe
Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler and Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva came together at Lisbon's Culturgest in March 2015 to create This Love. While it's their first duet album, they've been making music together in various groups since 2008, first in the European Movement Jazz Orchestra, an international big band of young up-coming musicians, and later in ...
NYC Winter Jazzfest 2016
by Dan Bilawsky
NYC Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 13-17, 2016 If you make the rounds in New York City on any night of the week, during any week of the year, there's always an abundance of quality jazz to hear. But when NYC Winter Jazzfest takes hold, the cup truly runneth over. This massive ...
A dialogo con Simone Graziano
by Neri Pollastri
Simone Graziano, pianista e compositore fiorentino trentacinquenne, è giustamente balzato in primo piano negli ultimi anni grazie soprattutto al suo quintetto Frontal, apprezzato con il primo disco omonimo e nelle performance dal vivo. Della formazione, che ha nel frattempo visto Dan Kinzelman subentrare al posto di Chris Speed, è appena uscito il nuovo CD Trentacinque. Per ...
Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation
by Mark Corroto
Growing up in a neighborhood, how do you get from, “Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!" to “Congratulations, Mr. Mitchell, on your son winning the Doris Duke Impact award and being named a Pew Fellow"? We are talking about the musical, not the suburban neighborhood here and in seemingly a blink of an eye, ...
Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation
by Hrayr Attarian
Composer and pianist Matt Mitchell creates haunting and vibrant soundscapes on his second release for Pi Records, Vista Accumulation. The eight, multilayered, originals that comprise the double disc set are organically fluid in structure with a tense ambience and a barely contained fervor within. Saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Speed opens the stimulating “The Damaged ...
Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation
by Dan Bilawsky
You never really know what's up pianist Matt Mitchell's sleeve. As a sideman he's constantly adapting and growing, creating different palettes and situations that expand the color and content in the music of the Dave Douglas Quintet, Tim Berne's Snakeoil, John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble, Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls quintet, and other high profile outfits; as a ...
Simon Jermyn’s Trot A Mouse: Pictorial Atlas Of Mammals
by Henning Bolte
At times the music of an album can be strikingly different from common and even one's own perceptional mental grids and might challenge one's own horizon of expectation. This album is not only a clear example of it. It is unusual and fascinating how adversative, contrastive features are balanced out in its music: rough and gentle, ...
Devin Gray: RelativE ResonancE
by Vincenzo Roggero
Con Relative Resonance Devin Gray si conferma batterista e band leader di assoluto valore, in grado di mettere in campo una scrittura a più dimensioni, ricca di suggestioni, e di allestire band di alto profilo grazie a musicisti innovativi e dalla mente aperta. Il disco presenta musica complessa, nervosa, irregolare. A volte scontrosa. Nessun evidente filo ...
Lama + Joachim Badenhorst: The Elephant's Journey
by Vincenzo Roggero
Il trio è di quelli consolidati da un'assidua frequentazione, da numerosi concerti in giro per l'Europa, da due splendidi album -Oneiros, il debutto, il successivo Lamacal, con ospite Chris Speed-per Clean Feed. Sempre per l'etichetta portoghese di Pedro Costa, Lama -questo il nome del trio -incide il terzo lavoro con il quotato clarinettista belga Joachim Badenhorst. ...
Simon Toldam: A New Perspective in Jazz
by Jakob Baekgaard
Danish pianist and composer Simon Toldam is a man who is used to getting involved in many different musical situations. Toldam thrives on diversity and he has played all kinds of music, from folk music to modern jazz and avant-garde. No matter what he is playing, he invests himself in the different musical contexts and brings ...
