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Ben Goldberg Quintet: The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact
by AAJ Italy Staff
Clarinettista personale, ma soprattutto compositore raffinato (di lui ricordiamo il bel Eight Phrases for Jefferson Rubin, del 1998 per la Victo), Ben Goldberg presenta questo omaggio a Steve Lacy, di cui fu allievo, pensato al momento della notizia della malattia del grande sopranista e registrato alcuni giorni dopo la sua morte. La formazione con la quale ...
Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image of Your Body
by John Kelman
It's been a couple of years since pianist Myra Melford released the broad-scoped, orchestral Where the Two Worlds Touch (Arabesque, 2004) by her group The Tent. Since then she's relocated to Berkeley from New York and, if anything, the duality of her previous record is explored in even greater detail on The Image of Your Body, ...
Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill
by John Kelman
The problem with tribute records is that they are often too literal, and artists mistake reverence for true appreciation. Not so with Nels Cline's New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill. If the best way to honor a source is to demonstrate how it's altered one's own musical perspective in a deeply personal ...
Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image of Your Body
by Troy Collins
Pianist Myra Melford has an abiding interest in India. She cites the writings of the Sufi mystic poet Rumi, as well as her own harmonium studies there, as major influences on her writing, again borrowing from the subcontinent's traditions on this album. Many of these pieces were composed on melodica, enriching them with a strong harmonic ...
Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill
by Troy Collins
In his liner notes, Nels Cline claims that New Monastery is not a tribute record to iconic pianist Andrew Hill, but merely one view of the rich potential found in his multifaceted compositions. The guitarist assembled an unusual sextet to explore the bittersweet and occasionally turbulent world of Hill's music. Accordionist Andrea Parkins, clarinetist Ben Goldberg ...
Ben Goldberg Quintet: The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact
by Elliott Simon
This is music that produces seemingly random associations as snippets of form and formlessness lead you to free, or perhaps not so freely, associate. Personal experiences dovetail with these compositions, which lead through nodes of memory and mood: from poet Robert Creeley to Alan Ginsburg to swing, world and free, through Bechet, Bird and Trane and ...
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette: One and the Same
by Brad Glanden
When most of the members of a jazz lineup are credited with “effects" along with their respective instruments, there may be reason to suspect that a dependence on electronics may be masking a deficiency of technical skill. Such is not the case with the Jeff Gauthier Goatette. To the contrary, the group's expert balance between the ...
The Bennie Maupin Ensemble: Penumbra
by Jerry D'Souza
For whatever it's worth, Bennie Maupin will continue to be associated with Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, and to an extent with Herbie Hancock and his fusion phase. But times and circumstances have changed, and it is good to see Maupin get into an acoustic setting that draws attention to his playing and his music. It is ...
Erik Friedlander: Prowl
by AAJ Italy Staff
Giunto al compimento del decimo anno di vita, il quartetto Topaz del violoncellista Erik Friedlander raggiunge un risultato di grande maturità e di straordinaria forza espressiva con questo nuovo disco - il loro quarto - Prowl, giocato su una ispiratissima sintesi tra le consuete tensioni urbane, alcune suggestioni da oriente che non sono estranee a gran ...
Ben Goldberg Quintet: The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact
by Tom Greenland
Steve Lacy may no longer be here, but he's “hear" these days, a musical spirit living on in many facets and forms. Clarinetist Ben Goldberg's quintet has recorded a loving tribute to Lacy in The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact, a collection of poignant vignettes, interpretations and revitalizations. Goldberg, known for his progressive take ...
