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Backscatter Bright Blue
By Fred Frith
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Where the Cities Gleam in Darkness; Big Flowers; Breaking and Entering; The Circus Is a Song of Praise; Little by Little; A Single Street Stretched Tight by the Waters; Climbing the Ladder; Dependence over the Abyss; Walking on Wire; Moments Full of Many Lives.
Christoph Irniger - Pilgrim: Italian Circus Story
by Glenn Astarita
Young Swiss saxophonist, composer Christoph Irniger is one to watch. His blossoming stature on the European jazz scene is partly due to his invigorating and meticulous compositional approach. With this second incarnation of the Pilgrim band, he continues his methodical and climactic buildups; chock full of emotive sentiment, often formulating an incandescent standpoint, toggling between and ...
Trio 3 + Vijay Iyer: Wiring
by John Sharpe
It really should be Trio 4 by now! For their previous four albums the threesome has added a pianist to the ranks, first Geri Allen, then Irene Schweizer, then Allen again, and lastly Jason Moran. Now on Wiring Vijay Iyer takes over the piano stool. You could argue that with their credentials saxophonist Oliver Lake (World ...
Lucas Niggli - Andreas Schaerer: Arcanum
by Glenn Astarita
Whether leading his Drum Quartet, seven-piece Zoom ensemble or supporting fabled improvisers, bassist Barry Guy and guitarist Fred Frith, Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli is not one to play it safe or dodge risk-taking processes. His mantra is firmly implanted in a musical world that is assuredly outside the box, after appearing on nearly two-dozen albums for ...
Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zurich Concert
by Libero Farnè
Di fronte a dischi problematici come questo non si può fare a meno di porsi delle domande. Quali sono il ruolo della composizione e la sua relazione con l'improvvisazione? Esistono analogie reali o presunte con la musica contemporanea “colta"? Quali sono la consapevolezza e le intenzioni degli autori nel concepire una musica di confine? Soltanto un ...
Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: Birdies for Lulu
by Alberto Bazzurro
Sodalizio ampiamente collaudato, quello tra la pianista svizzera e il violinista chicagoano, che in questo nuovo capitolo, inciso a fine 2013, esprime molte delle pieghe espressive che riconosciamo ai due musicisti, sia come singole entità che come coppia. Così il trittico iniziale (inclusa anche la coda finale), frutto della penna di Mark Feldman, ...
Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zurich Concert
by John Sharpe
Even though numbering just eight strong, Ingrid Laubrock makes such skillful use of the talented cast at her disposal on Zurich Concert that the band delivers an almost orchestral experience. She achieves that through the deployment of three chordal instruments in Mary Halvorson's guitar, Liam Noble's piano and Ted Reichman's accordion. Not that you would characterize ...
Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet with Scott Colley and Billy Mintz: Birdies For Lulu
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman are a dynamic duo within the neoteric strategies of modern jazz, coupled with their substantial artistic output. They intersperse classical inferences with shades of folk, avant-garde schemas, and bristling improvisational segments into the big picture. This incarnation of the quartet now features upper-echelon session bassist Scott Colley and venerable ...
Irene Schweizer - Pierre Favre: Live in Zurich
by Giuseppe Segala
Come dice Ekkehard Jost nel suo fondamentale volume Europas Jazz (Fischer Verlag, 1987), “Negli anni attorno al 1970, in un fase storica relativamente breve, il Jazz europeo trovò se stesso." Gli elvetici Irène Schweizer e Pierre Favre sono tra coloro che contribuirono fortemente all'identità europea di una musica che fino a quel momento aveva vissuto quasi ...
Luciano Biondini - Michel Godard - Lucas Niggli: Mavì
by Neri Pollastri
Giunto al secondo CD (il precedente What Is There What Is Not era del 2011, sempre per Intakt), l'atipico, europeo e originale trio di Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard e Lucas Niggli mostra di avere un'intesa invidiabile, messa alla prova su un repertorio decisamente variato e interessante. Mavì--titolo che rimanda al colore del mare--è ...
