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Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi recorded a session with the late trumpeter Miles Davis in 1978 that was never released. Had it been, the Japanese musician could perhaps have been slung by Davis' Jovian presence/influence to greater fame. As it is, Kikuchi has maintained a career as an iconoclastic artist, collaborating with some of the best jazz players. ...
Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise
by John Kelman
With a surprising number of recordings coming out that represent some of drummer Paul Motian's final work before passing unexpectedly in the fall of 2011, few have created as deeply personal a tribute as the liner notes to Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi's Sunrise. “Suddenly Paul was gone. He left without warning," Kikuchi writes, as he recounts ...
Billy Hart: All Our Reasons
by John Kelman
In a career spanning work with saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and trumpeter Miles Davis to pianists Tommy Flanagan and Marian McPartland, drummer Billy Hart has pretty much seen it all, from the most centrist mainstream to the outer reaches of free playing and beyond. But as he approaches 72 later in 2012, there's one thing Hart hasn't ...
Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem
by John Kelman
It may be frustrating when an artist releases albums infrequently, but when quality trumps quantity all is forgiven. Swedish bassist Anders Jormin's discography as a leader remains small--just eleven records as a leader since his auspicious 1988 Dragon debut, Eight Pieces. Still, with a high profile résumé sporting fellow ECM label mates such as pianist Bobo ...
Michael Mantler: For Two
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se risulta evidente che è la puntigliosa scrittura di Mantler a determinare le strutture, le dinamiche e il senso musicale complessivo dei singoli episodi, bisognerebbe anche capire quali pronunce, enfasi, coloriture, vibrazioni sono concesse e dovute all'improvvisazione dei due interpreti. Ogni composizione (alcune di brevità aforistica quasi weberniana, altre sviluppate in modo più dilatato e narrativo) ...
Andy Sheppard / Michel Benita / Sebastian Rochford: Trio Libero
by John Kelman
Sometimes unexpected connections yield the most wonderful results. Saxophonist Andy Sheppard, bassist Michel Benita and drummer Sebastian Rochford all have more than enough cred to suggest capability in any context, but none of their individual pursuits could presage a collaboration like Trio Libero, quite possibly the finest saxophone trio recordings of the new millennium, and one ...
Giovanni Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait
by C. Michael Bailey
Giovanni Pessi, Susanna Wallumrod, Marco Ambrosini, Jane AchtmanIf Grief Could WaitECM2012 Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music label (aka ECM) has three creative foci: “classical" music, jazz and folk music. The last of these is often overlooked in discussions of ECM, but folk music, particularly that of ...
Chick Corea - Stefano Bollani: Orvieto
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo CD, registrato ad Orvieto il 30 dicembre 2010 nell'ambito di Umbria Jazz Winter, ci riporta un duo senza dubbio indovinato e un concerto memorabile. Non so a chi sia da attribuire l'idea di far suonare assieme Bollani e Corea (e quello umbro non è stato il loro unico incontro); sta di fatto che se l'operazione ...
Andy Sheppard - Michel Benita - Sebastian Rochford: Trio Libero
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trio Libero, questo è il titolo dell'album appena uscito per l'ECM scaturito dalle menti di Andy Sheppard, Michel Benita e Sebastian Rochford: una formazione libera di suonare, libera di improvvisare, libera di emozionare. Un album dove i suoni, le pause ed i silenzi sono amalgamati in egual misura nel più classico degli stili ECM: un lavoro ...
George Friedrich Handel: Die Acht Grossen Suiten
by C. Michael Bailey
Lisa SmirnovaDie Acht Grossen SuitenECM Records2012 In late 1720, Saxon cum British composer/impresario George Friedrich Handel was having an intellectual property problem. In the middle of his efforts to begin the new opera season at King's Theater in Haymarket, London, he discovered that one Jeanne Roger was planning ...
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