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Jonathan Kreisberg: The South Of Everywhere
by Glenn Astarita
New York-based guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg provides a lesson or two here, on his second date for Mel Bay Records. It's not all about chops or technique. He adds credence to that notion via thoughtful compositions and small ensemble-led arrangements that communicate his penchant for fusing power-packed dynamics with memorable melodies. Kreisberg is well-equipped in ...
Evil Eye: Doin' It All For My Baby
by Glenn Astarita
This is a limited edition, 250 copy only release offered by the Oregon-based progressive-jazz label KMB Jazz. This quartet generates some high heat via a multi-tiered framework of motifs that partly reside within the freer spectrum of jazz. With a bustling 4/4 marching band progression on the opener, “They Certainly Are Not Great Writers, tenor saxophonist ...
Lucas Niggli Zoom Meets Arte Quartett: Crash Cruise
by Glenn Astarita
Venerable New York City-based modern jazz saxophonist Tim Berne composed the liners for Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli's Crash Cruise. And while both have generated a signature musical persona, the artists do share similarities due to their proclivities on various musical fronts. With his long-running and irrefutably excitable band Zoom, the drummer reaffirms ...
Duo: Baars - Henneman: Stof
by Glenn Astarita
Eminent Dutch multi-reedman Ab Baars is known to skirt the fringes of modern jazz within a variety of mechanisms. Stof presents a largely minimalist portraiture of his craftsmanship, within a tight-knit duo framework with cellist Ig Henneman. Consisting of improvisations that are occasionally embedded into structured compositional elements, the artists pursue freedom of expression throughout.
Army of Briars: Army of Briars
by Glenn Astarita
Over the years, I've become weaned on expecting the unexpected from this avant-garde U.K.-based record label. The Army of Briars is an utterly delightful and modernized spin on British folk music. Furthering time-honored concepts set forth by Pentangle and other eminent British folk entities, this outing presents Keith Jafrates' dream-swept lyrics, with vocals by Julie and ...
Alberto Pinton Quintet: Vita Pratica
by Glenn Astarita
Italian multi-reed ace Alberto Pinton takes his art rather seriously. Time and time again he produces some of the more stimulating jazz to be heard. A resident of Sweden, the artist employs regional musicians to round out his long-running quintet. It's a complexly enacted and polytonal engagement, where the band merges the structural component with free-wheeling ...
The Jon Hemmesam/Dom Minasi Quartet: The Jon Hemmersam/Dom Minasi Quartet
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarists Dom Minasi and Jon Hemmersam kindled a relationship back in 1994, which set the stage for the advent of this studio set, recorded in Denmark. The quartet activates a bonding of like-minded American/Danish jazz musicians, and it's a divergent jamboree at that, where the dual guitarists generate gobs of excitement via brisk and bursting free-bop ...
Ravish Monin's Trio Tarana: Miren (A Longing)
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer/percussionist Ravish Momin has bragging rights to this Middle and Far Eastern style of thrusting progressive jazz. Funny, because it seems so natural and untainted, as if it was meant to be. And he doesn't need a bassist, largely due to his booming bass drum sound and polyrhythmic articulations. This trio covers many musical vistas on ...
Weasel Walter Quartet: Revolt Music
by Glenn Astarita
The title of this album could also sound something like the soundtrack for a toppled government. It's musical anarchy and upheaval, thanks to free-jazz drummer Weasel Walter's relentless pursuit of artistic expressionism. With alternating line-ups, recorded at a studio and venues on the West Coast, this album is about pounding bass lines, punishing rhythmic exercises, wailing ...
Alex Clements: Waiting For You...
by Glenn Astarita
Well-educated Canadian pianist/composer Alex Clements gets around. He composes for his alma mater, the McGill University's Jazz Orchestra, and was a member of the peer assessment committee for grant endowments with the Canada Council of the Arts. His performance career has taken him into North American jazz circles, highlighting his participation with ...
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