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Trio Elf: Music Box Music
by Dan McClenaghan
German pianist Walter Lang leads something of a double life, musically. On the one hand, he fronts standard piano trios with an impressionist bent--in the mode of a Marc Copland--on recordings like Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Hagel Neyer Records, 2005) and Eurasia (M & I Records, 2009); on another hand, he heads up Trio ...
The Young Philadelphians: Live in Tokyo
by Chris M. Slawecki
Ah, The Sound of jny: Philadelphia. For folks lucky enough to grow up in or around the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection in the mid-to late-1970s (I'm one), the very phrase resounds with memories, most emanating from Sigma Sound Studios on North 12th Street: Thick yet clear arrangements, pumping and thumping basslines and rhythms, ...
Billy Hart & The WDR Big Band: The Broader Picture
by Dan Bilawsky
A great teacher's influence can be unusually powerful and completely unbound, fixed to specific moments and lessons in a student's mind while also reverberating through time and space. You simply never know where it may lead, what doors it may unlock, or what wonders and worlds it may help to create. That's the subtext in the ...
Tobias Meinhart: Natural Perception
by Edward Blanco
Presenting his debut recording on the Munich-based ENJA Records, Natural Perception is Bavarian-born and Brooklyn, New York-based saxophonist Tobias Meinhart's fourth album as leader delivering a rich palette of swinging modern jazz deserving serious attention. On tap are six Meinhart originals as well as fresh new arrangements of Harry Warren's classic You're My Everything," and Bill ...
Marc Ribot and the Young Philadelphians: Live In Tokyo
by Luca Muchetti
Marc Ribot, il Philly Sound, gli archi, il funk. Ormai capace di attraversare qualsiasi tipo di contesto musicale con la facilità con cui l'acqua scorre lungo le pietre di un ruscello, il chitarrista amato da Tom Waits incornicia con un Live in Tokyo una delle sue avventure più folli e divertenti. Ribot arruola ...
Marc Ribot/The Young Philadelphians: Live InTokyo
by Mark Corroto
Art be damned, let's dance. If you are of a certain age, let's say the baby boomer generation, then the vintage sounds of Philadelphia soul are imprinted on your brain. The 1970's began with The O'Jays Back Stabbers," which you might have heard on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, a show that originated in Philly, or perhaps ...
Offpiste Gurus: In Case Of Fire
by Budd Kopman
And now, as they say, for something completely different. In Case Of Fire is Scandinavian Indie-Pop Jazz" for want of any other label, by the group Offpiste Gurus (vocalist/poet/songwriter Trinelise Væring, reedman Fredrik Lundin, bassist Thomas Vang and drummer/percussionist Jeppe Gram). Offpiste" literally means skiing purposefully on ungroomed trails, that is off the beaten ...
Ron Miles: Circuit Rider
by Vincenzo Roggero
È pratica ormai diffusa anche tra musicisti dall'assidua frequentazione del jazz avventuroso e sperimentale quella di confrontarsi con registrazioni di tipo domestico," intime, di tono colloquiale, in economie di mezzi, dove a prevalere è una sorta di understatement interpretativo. Circuit Rider rientra a pieno titolo in questa categoria, presenta tre musicisti di grande spessore, tre maestri ...
Roy Nathanson's Sotto Voce: Complicated Day
by Paolo Peviani
Roy Nathanson, Curtis Fowlkes, Sam Bardfeld... Non sono i Jazz Passengers, peraltro recentemente Reunited," ma poco ci manca. Sono i Sotto Voce, band di cui Roy Nathanson è unico leader, e che si muove su territori simili a quelli dei Jazz Passengers ma con maggiore enfasi sull'orecchiabilità, sulle voci, sulla parola (tutti i brani dell'album sono ...
Makiko Hirabayashi: Surely
by Budd Kopman
Surely, the pianist Makiko Hirabayashi Trio's third album, is both utterly captivating and immediately enjoyable. It is also, however, rather disquieting to anyone who listens more deeply because this music flatly refuses to be pinned down. Here, the whole is much more than the sum of the parts, but the parts remain in paradoxical relation to ...