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John Stetch: Exponentially Monk
by Jim Santella
A solo piano album of classic Monk compositions marks a serious study of what we all like about jazz. The music swings, it has originality, and it provides the performer much room for spontaneity. John Stetch explores each one methodically and with careful consideration. He dampens the piano's strings, alters notes with the pedal, ...
Quadro Nuevo: Canzone Della Strada
by Mark Sabbatini
Real Italian pizza bears little resemblance to the topping-drenched artery blockers at Domino's. Diners get their own pie with a sparse collection of much fresher toppings, and the main condiment is usually olive oil instead of little red pepper flakes. One isn't necessarily better or healthier than the other. Just be willing to admit ...
Quadro Nuevo: Canzone Della Strada
by Jim Santella
Improvising over Italian folk melodies, Quadro Nuevo has transformed popular songs into swinging affairs of the heart. Multi-instrumentalist Mulo Francel, guitarist Robert Wolf, acoustic bassist D.D. Lowka, and accordionist Andreas Hinterseher portray the vocal style that this music brought us during the last century. They're tearjerkers and happy celebrations. They're near and dear to the heart ...
Rabih Abou-Khalil: Morton
by Jim Santella
Lebanese oud master Rabih Abou-Khalil leads this exciting sextet through a session of his originals. The music, while carrying a distinctive Middle Eastern flavor, can only be called jazz. The group's spontaneity and fresh drive introduce elements that we only find in that portion of the arts where improvisation reigns supreme and swing weaves itself around ...
Francois Carrier: Travelling Lights
by Jerry D'Souza
Dream teams do not necessarily turn out to be worthy of high expectations. If there is no empathy and the players do not feel that invisible electric impulse, all can be lost. But that is not the case here. Michel Lambert has been the drummer of choice for Fran'ois Carrier and there is a ...
Paul Bley: Nothing to Declare
by AAJ Staff
In the intervening half century since he first appeared on record, pianist Paul Bley has cut a huge number of records and left an unmistakable trail of music defining his own view of avant-garde jazz. (Is is still called avant-garde decades later?) He's worked with a virtual who's who of improvised music, but here for his ...
Hugh Ragin: Revelation
by John Kelman
While he has recorded less frequently as a leader than some his age, trumpeter High Ragin's career as a music educator in Denver, Colorado certainly hasn't prevented him from wider exposure with a variety of artists including Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray and, oddly enough, even Maynard Ferguson. But it is with the Creative Music Studio in ...
Nancy Walker: When She Dreams
by John Kelman
The dividends paid by working with the same core group of musicians can be significant. Canadian pianist Nancy Walker has been working with bassist Kieran Overs and drummer Barry Romberg since her '97 début, Invitation , and has continued to do so for her subsequent releases, '00's Luminosity and '02's Levitation. For her latest release, When ...
Paul Bley: Nothing to Declare
by John Kelman
While pianist Paul Bley is renowned as a free player with an almost allergic aversion to music on the printed page, that doesn't mean that he doesn't have roots, or is afraid to show them. On Nothing to Declare , his fifth solo recording for the Canadian Justin Time label, his background in blues and standards ...
David Murray and the Gwo Ka Masters: Gwotet
by Jim Santella
Don’t try to pigeonhole David Murray. He communicates in the universal language: music. Featuring guest tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, Gwotet crosses geographical boundaries to incorporate funk, blues, world beat, Afro-Cuban, and traditional “roots” in Murray’s melting pot. The title track summarizes his intended message, with Sanders and Murray soloing over an enchanting, rhythmic beat, ...
