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Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research: Hat and Shoes
by Alberto Bazzurro
Una partenza decisamente lanciata, per poi ricondurre il tutto lungo binari concentrati e anche cerebrali più tipici di Ullmann (che del resto non disdegna impennate più vociferanti e corrugate, come qui accade per esempio in “Don't Touch My Music"), dà la stura a questo nuovo album del polistrumentista tedesco, il cui livello riporta per l'ennesima volta ...
Bryan Eubanks / Stéphane Rives: fq
by John Eyles
Although they have not previously recorded together, the pairing of Bryan Eubanks and Stéphane Rives makes perfect sense. French soprano saxophonist Rives is already a long-serving Potlatch veteran, with this being his fourth release on the label, following in the wake of his 2003 solo soprano album Fibres, the ground-breaking saxophone quartet Propagations (Potlatch, 2007) and ...
Penetralia: Grix
by John Sharpe
Three Greeks based in the musical melting pot of Berlin comprise the cooperative Penetralia. Best known may be reedman Floros Floridis, who has worked with both late master bassist Peter Kowald and drummer Gunter “Baby" Sommer (on the bassist's Off The Road (Rogue Art, 2007) DVD). Completing the trio are Antonis Anissegos on piano and Yorgos ...
Marie Kruttli Trio: Kartapousse
by Bruce Lindsay
Kartapousse is the debut album from the Marie Kruttli Trio. Leader and composer Marie Kruttli, born in French Switzerland in 1991, is joined by two more young Swiss musicians, bassist Lukas Traxel and drummer Martin Perret, on a collection of her original compositions. It's a promising start to the trio's career. Apparently, Kartapousse is ...
Tré: Edle Einfalt
by Alberto Bazzurro
Trio dalle geometrie inusuali ma non per questo inaudite (pensiamo solo a un ipotetico, assolutamente realistico, Giuffre/Brookmeyer/Manne, le cui temperature fanno del resto capolino in episodi quali “Drachengedankenkampf," “Ninna nanna," per certi versi anche “Domino"), il tedesco Tré poggia le proprie fondamenta sulle larghe volute disegnate dal trombone di Thomas Lüthi, non fosse altro che per ...
For Free Hands: Kaleidoscope Freedom
by Alberto Bazzurro
Due bulgari, un tedesco e un greco compongono questo quartetto, che parla molto di lìbertà (nel suo nome, nel titolo stesso del disco) ma poi in realtà pratica un jazz alquanto prudente, aconflittuale, calato in una tradizione moderno-contemporanea largamente collaudata non esente da inflessioni country-rock. I temi sono tutti a firma del chitarrista ...
Cyminology: Phoenix
by Vic Albani
Lo scrivevamo qualche anno fa da queste stesse colonne: lei si chiama Cymin Samawatie, iraniana nata a Braunschweig anche se da molti anni berlinese acquisita, capace di lavorare ad alti livelli sulle metriche della poesia classica di Rumi o Hafez. Accanto ad un trio formato dal pianista Benedikt Jahnel, dal bassista Ralf Schwarz e dal batterista ...
Satoko Fujii Tobira: Yamiyo Ni Karasu
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Satoko Fujii, based now in Berlin, makes uniquely tumultuous music, intersecting a rolling and tumbling near chaos with moments of pastoral beauty and fierce, pounding grooves. Ever restless, she forms new groups filled with fearless musicians with always interesting results. She debuted her Satoko Fujii New Trio in 2013 with Spring Storm, (Libra Records), and ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin: Ichigo Ichie
by Mark Corroto
I'm going to propose a computer “app" called Big Band World Domination. With this software players would be able to go forward and backward in time to have big bands compete against each other. Spin back to the territory bands of the 1920s, 30s, all the way to the 1960s, and then up to today. We ...
Benny Lackner Trio: Siskiyou
by Dan McClenaghan
The photo on the main page of Benny Lackner's website shows the pianist with one hand on an acoustic piano, the other plying the keys of a laptop computer. That's where his muse has taken him-into a very contemporary electro/acoustic piano trio mix with drummer Matthieu Chazarec and bassist Jerome Regard. Siskiyou is Lackner's ...
