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Carlos Barretto Trio / Louis Sclavis: Radio Song
by Glenn Astarita
Originally released by the relatively obscure CBTM label and newly issued for this top-shelf progressive-jazz entity, we find Portuguese bassist Carlos Barretto pronouncing an up-tempo set which, in part, serves as a testament to his country's fertile jazz scene. And with wider distribution, this well-rounded endeavor could find its way onto many of those year-end top-ten ...
Clean Feed Records: Radical Revelations Continue
by Mark Corroto
It was a revelation when Portugal's Clean Feed label began producing new and exciting music at the turn of this century. There seems to be no let up to their activities and recent additions to the catalog are to be celebrated. Ethan Winogrand Tangled Tango Clean Feed ...
Alvin Fielder Trio: A Measure of Vision
by Troy Collins
Alvin Fielder, one of the original co-founders of the AACM, began his recording career drumming on Roscoe Mitchell's seminal album, Sound (Delmark, 1966). Despite his numerous associations and sideman duties (Joel Futterman, Dennis Gonzalez, Kidd Jordan, Sun Ra), he's never led a session under his own name, until now. A Measure of Vision is ...
Scott Fields Ensemble: Beckett
by AAJ Italy Staff
Scott Fields è un chitarrista che definire jazz sarebbe molto riduttivo. La definizione che lui stesso dà della sua musica è “post-free jazz”, ed “exploratory music”. In realtà, il suo maggior riferimento è il sistema tonale di Stephen Dembski, compositore che il chitarrista ha conosciuto nel 1991. Beckett, album dedicato allo scrittore irlandese, è comunque il ...
Alvin Fielder: A Measure of Vision
by AAJ Italy Staff
Esiste nella storia del jazz una categoria universalmente riconosciuta di musicisti che potremmo definire “piccoli eroi” o, buttandola sul mitologico, “divinità minori”. Cavalieri dai nomi oscuri che hanno partecipato e contribuito agli sviluppi di questo genere percorrendo sentieri tortuosi, scomodi e appartati. Lontani dalle luci della ribalta e dai superlativi riservati ai maestri consacrati, queste nobili ...
Scott Fields Ensemble: Beckett
by Troy Collins
Beckett follows in the conceptual footsteps of Mamet (Delmark, 2001), guitarist Scott Fields' previous project inspired by an author. Tracking the thematic similarities between Beckett's writing and Fields' compositions is a tenuous prospect, like any project that yields inspiration from a divergent art form. Nonetheless, the album provides a challenging and rewarding listen on its own, ...
Billy Fox: The Uncle Wiggly Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
«It began with a dream» racconta il percussionista-compositore Billy Fox nelle note che accompagnano questo sorprendente esordio targato, ancora una volta, Clean Feed. Un sogno intravisto e catturato in quegli attimi senza tempo che separano il sonno dalla veglia, la coscienza dall’incoscienza. È in una zona non meglio precisata di quel confine assai labile che sono ...
BassDrumBone: The Line Up
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un ménage a trois consolidato e sempre vivo quello tra Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway e Ray Anderson, semplicemente BassDrumBone, a sottolineare con essenzialità che non c'è bisogno di dire molto altro. D'altronde, basta fare due conti: sono ormai trent'anni che i tre artisti hanno deciso di incrociare i propri destini musicali - a partire proprio da ...
Adam Lane: New Magical Kingdom
by Marc Medwin
It is standard rhetorical practice to speak of new ground being broken, of barriers being dissolved and of all melding with clarity into a singular vision, but there's increasingly little room for such claims to be made, even less for them to be taken seriously. This newest offering from the always interesting bassist and composer Adam ...
BassDrumBone: The Line Up
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Bass, drums and trombone are not common instrumentation for a trio. But intermittently for thirty years, bassist Mark Helias, drummer Gerry Hemingway and trombonist Ray Anderson have explored exactly this format under the apt moniker BassDrumBone. Their eighth CD, The Line Up, exemplifies the approach they have honed as a trio. It is not a typical ...
