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Chloë Sobek, Tim Berne: Burning Up
by Hrayr Attarian
Australian explorative composer and sound artist Chloë Sobek is a prodigious talent. For her second release Burning Up Sobek takes two bold chances both of which pay off well. She joins master improviser, saxophonist Tim Berne for an entirely spontaneous set. Sobek performs on the violone, the renaissance era ancestor to the contrabass. She not only ...
Jensen / Liebowitz / Blancarte / Wagner: Ephemeris
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist and flutist Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen is, above all, an explorer of sound. Jensen, who splits her time between her native Denmark and New York City, thrives in cooperative settings with other improvisers. On her twelfth release, the haunting Ephemeris, she joins forces with both old and new colleagues in crafting an absorbing and ethereal ...
Karolina Strassmayer, Drori Mondlak and David Friedman: Speak Your Truth
by Hrayr Attarian
The creative duo of saxophonist/flutist Karolina Strassmayer and drummer Drori Mondlak have been making exciting music together for over two decades. The pair seamlessly fuses the composed and the improvised on their engaging releases, that are usually, in intimate quartet settings. Speak Your Truth is a departure from their past work yet a logical evolution of ...
Ivo Perelman + Tom Rainey: Duologues 1 Turning Point
by Hrayr Attarian
Innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman thrives in small groups with like-minded musicians, as is amply demonstrated throughout his one-of-a-kind oeuvre. In drummer Tom Rainey, Perelman has found yet another perfect partner for shared improvisational explorations. The two men have complementary artistic visions as demonstrated by the superb Truth Seeker (Fundacja Słuchaj, 2024) with bassist Mark Helias. Similar ...
Ken Silverman: Eclectic Vibes
by Hrayr Attarian
Guitarist Ken Silverman, in addition to being a virtuoso, is an innovative composer and improviser. On his five releases as a leader Silverman has demonstrated a delightfully unique ability to fuse various musical traditions into a single unit. His sixth, Eclectic Vibes, lives up to its name and, like his previous work, is uncategorizable. The ten ...
Jahari Stampley: Winner of The 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute Competition
by Hrayr Attarian
Chicago-based pianist Jahari Stampley is a prodigious talent who has won, among other accolades, the prestigious Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition. Born into a musical family (his mother D'Erania is an innovative multi-instrumentalist and educator), Stampley took up music at age 10. His self-released 2023 debut Still Listening features several up-and-coming young talents ...
Space: Embrace the Space
by Hrayr Attarian
The innovative Swedish trio Space is a collaborative unit that consists of three masters of improvisation. Pianist Lisa Ullen, bassist Elsa Bergman, and drummer Anna Lund separately and together work in the border zone between the modern western classical idiom and that of free jazz. The thrilling Embrace the Space is the ensemble's second release and ...
Phillip Greenlief and Jon Raskin: 2 + 2 with Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi
by Hrayr Attarian
In the third decade of the 21st century saxophonists Jon Raskin and Phillip Greenlief have been slowly releasing albums from their 2+2 series. These are sessions, both improvised and using Raskin's graphic scores, which match Raskin and Greenlief with two other musicians who play the same instrument.. The second installment, the captivating 2+2 with Shoko Hikage ...
From Violinist Layale Chaker, Two Ensembles, Two Superb Albums
by Hrayr Attarian
Lebanese-American violinist and composer, Layale Chaker starts off 2024 with a pair of releases with two different ensembles. These coincide with the premiere of Chaker's first opera Ruinous Gods at the Spoleto Festival USA . The albums are equally enchanting--there is not a more suitable adjective than that--and they are both in Chaker's signature style that ...
Tomeka Reid, Isidora Edwards, Elisabeth Coudoux: Reid/Edwards/Coudoux
by Hrayr Attarian
Leave it to Relative Pitch Records' Kevin Riley's ingenuity to release a unique, live session which brought together three of the world's preeminent cellists-improvisers. The result is the provocative, captivating and simply titled Reid/Edwards/Coudoux. On it, American Tomeka Reid joins forces with Chilean Isidora Edwards, and German Elisabeth Coudoux for four multilayered conversations. “Could ...
