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Marion Brown: Three For Shepp To Gesprachsfetzen Revisited
by Chris May
"It is often those we hear the least that we should listen to the most." So wrote the Guadeloupean pianist Jonathan Jurion on the release of his album Le Temps Fou: The Music Of Marion Brown (Komos, 2019). Just why Marion Brown has become such a rarely acknowledged figure is unclear. He possessed ...
Hans Koch, Christine Abdelnour: FFlair
by Alberto Bazzurro
Quattro successivi episodi col medesimo titolo contrassegnati dai relativi numeri romani, svarianti dai sette ai diciassette minuti, compongono questo album, inciso a Biel / Bienne (città di cui Hans Koch è nativo, laddove Christine Abdelnour arriva da Parigi) nel gennaio 2023. Chi si attendesse un duo sassofonistico avrà di che sorprendersi, trattandosi di un intersecarsi largamente ...
Giusto Chamber Orchestra: 3 Works For Strings
by Glenn Astarita
Nikolaus Gerszewski's journey in music is characterized by a deep engagement with the fundamentals of sound and silence, often drawing on minimalist aesthetics to create compositions that challenge and expand the listener's perception of time and space within music. His approach to composition frequently involves the deconstruction of traditional harmonic and melodic development, instead favoring processes ...
Florian Stoffner, John Butcher, Chris Corsano: Braids
by Alberto Bazzurro
Una free impro abbastanza classica (tutto può diventare un classico, anche l'irriverenza), piuttosto ben calibrata e mai sopra le righe, è quanto ci giunge da questi cinquanta minuti scarsi di musica certamente non accomodante (ma del resto, come si sarà capito, nemmeno mai urtante), incisi nel maggio 2022 in quel di Bienna, città svizzera sul lago ...
Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird Revisited
by Chris May
In his liner notes for Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird Revisited, Bill Shoemaker sets out the context in which the two featured albums should be considered. He observes that so enormous was Charles Mingus' artistic vision that no two (or perhaps three) albums can encompass its totality. How true that is, even of ...
Christoph Gallio, Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders: Live at Café Oto London
by John Eyles
Swiss saxophonist Christoph Gallio has been playing with the trio DAY & TAXI for over three decades during which time he has been the only ever-present member, and the trio has released twelve albums. Early in July 2022, Gallio arrived in jny: London at the beginning of a six-month sabbatical stay at the London Atelier of ...
Bill Evans: The Legendary Trio At Birdland 1960 Revisited
by Glenn Astarita
Bill Evans' The Legendary Trio at Birdland 1960 is a seminal recording that captures a fleeting moment of jazz brilliance, immortalizing the profound synergy of Evans with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. Recorded live at the iconic Birdland Jazz Club in New York City, this album is a vivid snapshot of a group at ...
Bill Evans: The Legendary Trio At Birdland 1960 Revisited
by John Eyles
Keen-eyed Bill Evans aficionados will know that this album is the pianist's third in the Revisited series by ezz-thetics, following At The Village Vanguard 1961 Revisited and the double-CD Duos with Jim Hall & Trios '64 & '65 Revisited, both released in 2023. The Legendary Trio" refers to the threesome of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro and ...
Satoko Inoue: Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020
by Chris May
Jo Kondo is a composer unto himself, but for ready reference he can be filed in the proximity of John Cage and Morton Feldman, both of whom he got to know in 1978 in New York while in the city on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Satoko Inoue is a concert pianist specializing in modern ...
Sergio Armaroli: I Dream I Was An European
by Neri Pollastri
Un disco a suo modo perfetto," questo di Sergio Armaroli, che si circonda di abituali e splendidi collaboratori come Giancarlo Schiaffini e Roger Turner, vi aggiunge un monumento dell'improvvisazione come Phil Minton, e con loro esegue nove sue composizioni nelle quali l'improvvisazione la fa da padrona. La perfezione" sta soprattutto nelle individualità, anzi nei ...