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Zealous Angles
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sponger; Apace; Jostler; Angled Languor; Rapacious; Zeal; Traipse; Cinch; Apical Gropes; Rejostled; Grail Automating;
Gauzy; Lunger; Pre-traipsed; Synch; Optical Gripes; Radial Mazing.
Caroline Davis: Portals, Volume 2 : Returning
by Glenn Astarita
Alto saxophonist/composer Caroline Davis, a rising star in the jazz world, has unveiled her second installment of the “Portals" series, titled Portals Vol. 2: Returning. This album serves as a sonic memoir, inspired by her grandmother, Joan “Lady" Anson-Weber, and it represents a deeply personal journey of reflection and healing. As a gifted saxophonist and composer, ...
Matt Mitchell, Josephine Davies & Francisco Andrade
by Maurice Hogue
Several dynamic album debuts in this episode, highlighted by brilliant pianist Matt Mitchell with his long-standing trio of bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Dan Weiss. Despite the countless hours of rehearsals and gigs, Zealous Angles is the first recording by the three. Portuguese saxophonist Francisco Andrade brings a fresh new approach with his new Linhas E ...
Miguel Zenon: Golden City
by Dan McClenaghan
The alto saxophone rose to jazz prominence in the 1940s, under the influence of Charlie Parker and the birth of bebop. Important players such as Art Pepper, Lee Konitz and Ornette Coleman took the horn in their own directions, crafting distinctive alto saxophone voices. Moving ahead to the new millennium, no alto saxophonist has entered the ...
Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles
by Troy Dostert
Among 2024's contenders for the most tireless and ambitious pianists in creative music, one has to put Matt Mitchell near the top of the list. When he is not working as a sideman alongside other pathbreaking musicians like Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Darius Jones or Kim Cass, he is busy crafting his own idiosyncratic compositions and ...
Marta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void
by John Sharpe
For her first leadership date on the Swiss Intakt label, NYC-based Spanish pianist Marta Sanchez returns to the trio format which she last aired way back on her debut Lunas, Soles Y Elefantes (Errabal, 2008). While some may regret the absence of the two-saxophone front line which she has used in the meantime, the overwhelming positive ...
A Few of My Favorite 2024 Jazz Things (so far), Part 3
by Ludovico Granvassu
Welcome to the third part of our retrospective on some of the tunes we have loved the most in the first half of the year. We hope you do too! Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jukka Eskola, Timo Lassy “The Duke of ...
Marta Sanchez Trio with Chris Tordini and Savannah Harris: Perpetual Void
by Mark Corroto
Marta Sanchez and her trio of bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Savannah Harris want their listeners to endeavor to keep up. Judging by the opening two tracks on Perpertual Void, keeping the pace might be a tall task. The Madrid-born New York-based pianist spins a dizzying web with “I Don't Wanna Live The Life And Then ...
The Choir Invisible with Charlotte Greve, Vinnie Sperrazza and Chris Tordini: Town of Two Faces
by Glenn Astarita
Infused with an inventive and organic zest, Town of Two Faces swings into the spotlight under the deft ensemble of Charlotte Greve on alto saxophone or voice, Vinnie Sperrazza on drums, Chris Tordini on acoustic bass. It is graced by a cameo from Fay Victor, a voice which paints jazz in bold uncharted colors, with her ...
Captivity
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2023
Track listing: [The Day Has Come]; Burned Believers [for Agnes and Huguette]; And Yet It Moves [for Galileo]; [The Malignity of Fate]; Synchronize My Body Where My Mind Had Always Been [for Jalil Muntaqim]; [Terrestrial Rebels]; A Way Back to Myself [for Keith LaMar]; The Promise I Made [for Joyce Ann Brown]; [I Won't Be Back, Mrs. Susan Burton]; Put It on a Poster [for Sandra Bland].
