Results for "Edition Records"

Phronesis / Julian Argüelles / Frankfurt Radio Big Band: The Behemoth

by Karl Ackermann
April 9, 2017

Long regarded as the European piano trio filling a void left by the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Phronesis has been continually evolving since their debut Organic Warfare (Loop Records, 2007). Their philosophy has been consistent across the past ten years--regarding the root “Americanisms" of jazz as anachronistic rather than required methodology, Phronesis has freed itself to absorb ...

Olli Hirvonen: New Helsinki

by Roger Farbey
April 8, 2017

Hailing from Finland but now resident in Brooklyn, New York, Olli Hirvonen won first prize in the 2016 Socar Montreux Jazz Electric Guitar Competition. Significantly, the jury was presided over by John McLaughlin. “Arps" opens with cascades of Robert Fripp-like quick-fire obligato notes, rapidly ascending and descending the fretboard and instantly hooking the listener. ...

Phronesis; Julian Argüelles; Frankfurt Radio Big Band: The Behemoth

by Roger Farbey
March 11, 2017

Julian Argüelles needs no lessons on how to arrange for a big band since cutting his teeth with the 1980s jazz phenomenon Loose Tubes, later joining Chris McGregor's legendary Brotherhood Of Breath. He also has recorded over a dozen albums under his name and subsequently leading several line-ups including his latest quartet Tetra. This is the ...

Stuart McCallum & Mike Walker: The Space Between

by Vic Albani
March 8, 2017

Già piuttosto impegnati con le rispettive formazioni in cui militano attualmente (l'uno con Cinematic Orchestra e Slowly Rolling Camera, l'altro con Impossible Gentlemen e Printmakers), i “due di Manchester" ci riprovano e un paio di anni dopo il precedente Beholden, ripropongono un nuovo CD chitarristico. Parliamo di Stuart McCallum e Mike Walker, amici di vecchia data ...

Dinosaur: Together, As One

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2017

The debut album of the newly baptized Dinosaur--but the second album of the group formerly known as the Laura Jurd Quartet, following Landing Ground (Chaos Collective, 2012)--sees composer Jurd inspired by Miles Davis's late 1960s/early 1970s electric period. Though Jurd's trumpet, Elliot Galvin's Fender Rhodes/Hammond soundscapes and the persistent grooves plied by Conor Chaplin and Corrie ...

Nicolas Kummert: La Diversité

by Roger Farbey
January 31, 2017

Belgian saxophonist Nicolas Kummert has been influenced by African music since a two month stay in Senegal at the age of 17, where he collaborated with musicians from that country and later from Benin, Mali, Kenya, Sao Tomé, Morocco and Tunisia. He met award-winning Blue Note guitarist Lionel Loueke during a recording session for Beninese singer ...

Together, As One

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Awakening; Robin; Living, Breathing; Underdog; Steadily Sinking; Extinct; Primordial; Interlude.

Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures

By Jasper Høiby

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Folk Song; Fellow Creatures; World Of Contradictions; Little Song For Mankind; Song For The Bees; Tangible; Collective Spaces; Suddenly Everyone; Before; Plastic Island.

Wolf Valley

By Eyolf Dale

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Furet; Fernanda; Shostachoral; Ban Joe; Sideways; Teglstein; The Creek; Silent Ways; The Walk.

Fellow Creatures

By Jasper Høiby

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Folk Song; Fellow Creatures; World Of Contradictions; Little Song For Mankind; Song For The Bees; Tangible; Collective Spaces; Suddenly Everyone; Before; Plastic Island.