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Ben Freidkin: Trial & Error
by Hrayr Attarian
On his exciting debut Trial & Error, dynamic drummer Ben Freidkin combines music from three live sets spanning two years. Each recording has a different group of side-musicians. For Freidkin it represents a sort of “coming of age" as it coincides with him completing his graduate degree in music. Despite the variety of personnel and sound, ...
Ana Nelson: Bridges
by Hrayr Attarian
Award winning multi-reed player Ana Nelson is a musical prodigy who, simultaneously, continues to evolve in her own artistry while mentoring others. On her delightful debut, Bridges, Nelson showcases her virtuosity as a performer and her inventiveness as a composer. Nelson blends her western classical education and jazz training in the seven engaging originals which feature ...
Kate Hamann: Momentary Beauty
by Hrayr Attarian
Up-and-coming trumpeter and vocalist Kate Hamann showcases the full breadth of her talents on her full-length debut, the captivating Momentary Beauty. In addition to deftly leading her band, playing her horns, and singing, Hamann penned all the music that comprises the album. The laid back cadence of the rhythm section, Hamann's own incandescent tones, and saxophonist ...
Christopher Lucas Wilson: Solemn Moments
by Hrayr Attarian
Pianist Christopher Lucas Wilson demonstrates his sophisticated style and vibrant sense of swing on his third release as a leader, the delightful Solemn Moments. Informed by the turmoil of the pandemic, the intimate set was recorded in Wilson's hometown of Detroit. Evenly split between covers and originals, the album boasts both thematic cohesiveness and engaging variation. ...
Reed Rapture In Brooklyn: A Box Set Of Woodwind Duets With Ivo Perelman
by Hrayr Attarian
One of the 20th century's musical geniuses, saxophonist Charlie Parker said “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." This statement on unbridled creativity applies perfectly to saxophonist ...
Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of Drums
by Hrayr Attarian
Australian saxophonist and composer Jeremy Rose has created a unique body of work since he arrived on the music scene in 2008 with his collaborative quartet, The Vampires. He has forged an innovative path over the course of several local and international projects and multiple recordings. His twentieth, Disruption! The Voice of Drums is a poignant, ...
Ivo Perelman: Fruition
by Hrayr Attarian
To say that saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp have seamless synergy is an understatement. After a dozen and a half improvised duet albums the two men form a single creative entity, one that is multifaceted, dynamic and crackles with spontaneity. Fruition, their eighteenth, is a stimulating set of eleven interlinked tracks which has a ...
Gustavo Cortinas: Kind Regards
by Hrayr Attarian
Drummer Gustavo Cortinas' previous album was cinematic in scale, and he has followed it with the more intimate yet equally enchanting Kind Regards (Saludos Afectuosos). Leading a quintet of young, intrepid, Chicago musicians, Cortinas interpretes ten of his own songs that explore themes of social justice, love, and life in general. “When I Leave ...
Pamai Chirdkiatisak: Dreamer
by Hrayr Attarian
Despite having had an accomplished saxophonist and composer as a monarch --the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej-- Thailand is not immediately associated in most people's minds with jazz. However, the country has had an active scene for many years, with annual festivals, contests and a jazz department at the prestigious Mahidol University. Out of this ...
Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Mesmerism
by Hrayr Attarian
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is an idiosyncratic and restless explorer. An accomplished percussionist, he is known for blurring, if not completely erasing, the boundaries between the pre-written and the improvised. This has led him to work in a modern, Western Classical, idiom, albeit one rooted in the jazz tradition. After conducting the twenty-piece Alarm Will ...
