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East West Quintet: Vast
by Glenn Astarita
Enthusiastic youth coupled with solid musicianship and strong compositions offer the winning edge by this Brooklyn, New York-based ensemble that started in 2003 as a bop unit inspired by Cannonball Adderley. Time marches on and now this quintet delves into that opaque line that teeters between jazz-rock and jazz-fusion. Recorded to two-inch tape, the band projects ...
The Conduit Trio: Beyond Liquid Glass
by Glenn Astarita
New Mexico is recognized as an artists' haven, but not an area that features jazz-rock power trios. Nonetheless, there are always exceptions to the perceived rule. Marked by strong material, consisting of memorable hooks, guitarist Robert Branch's sizzling riffs and blitzing crunch chords steer the band through a string of tension and release stylizations. ...
Jerry Granelli V16: Vancouver '08
by Glenn Astarita
This 2009 and third release by drummer Jerry Granelli's dual-guitar band, features a DVD, Live At Ironworks, which documents the unit's Vancouver performance, used as a vehicle for working through the material on this album. Known for their loose developments and improvisational acumen, this studio set highlights the musicians' unhurried and textural approach to the grand ...
Marc Edwards / Weasel Walter Group: Mysteries Beneath The Planet
by Glenn Astarita
Led by avant, free-jazz drummers Marc Edwards and Weasel Walter, this ensemble pushes the envelope via a nuclear-like aerial assault that in some instances might signify a caricature of vintage, high-octane Albert Ayler fare. Nonetheless, the dual drumming attack serves as the foundation for the hornists' soaring lines, teeming with angst and a spiritual cleansing type ...
Matt Renzi: Lunch Special
by Glenn Astarita
This Brooklyn, NY-based progressive jazz trio brings memorable compositional frameworks and intriguing improvisational endeavors to the proverbial table. Saxophonist Matt Renzi is a well-schooled musician who possesses a fertile imagination. The evidence lies within the buoyant works that are partly devised upon subtle tension and release statements and pulsating flows, abetted by his trio's democratic mode ...
Joelle Leandre / William Parker: Live At Dunois
by Glenn Astarita
Eleven years have passed since the estimable duo of Joëlle Leandre and William Parker recorded Contrabasses for this U.K.-based record label. During that time, the two bassists have undertaken numerous projects while stamping their respective and somewhat legendary faculties across a broad path of the improvisational spectrum. Whatever the muse or passion, these artists' musical ingenuity ...
Jerry Bergonzi: Simply Put
by Glenn Astarita
Jerry Bergonzi is a true giant among modern day saxophonists. The Boston-based artist's fourth effort for Savant is perhaps his finest solo outing to date, amid his extensive output as a first-call session ace. No frills or reinventions here, as Bergonzi cuts to the chase in buoyant fashion via his full- bodied tenor sax sound and ...
15 Degrees Below Zero: Resting On A
by Glenn Astarita
This West Coast USA trio sparks slight remembrances of vintage Brian Eno ambient electronica, amid many nouveau uplifts and curiously interesting disparities. Mastered by electronics master Thomas Dimuzio, the artists create dark, streaming extended note sound-sculpting motifs via keys, samplers, loops, and other implements or facilitations. Lucid similes of space travel combined with segments ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Glenn Astarita
The fifth album by this Indonesian unit offers a mélange of progressive jazz and cerebral rock, augmented by a highly entertaining form factor. Here, the Fender Rhodes electric piano resides as the primary musical voice as Riza Arshad toggles between it and acoustic piano, also using an ancient Oberheim analog synth for colorific textures. Moreover, Arshad ...
Denman Maroney Quintet: Udentity
by Glenn Astarita
In this fascinating 2009 release, leader Denman Maroney morphs the avant-garde implications of hyperpiano fare into a semi-structured progressive jazz endeavor with tunes that are largely melodic and uncannily attainable. The artist derives influence from avant-garde composers John Cage and Henry Cowell, who used nuts, bolts and other implements to perform on the piano via unconventional ...
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