Results for "JZ Replacement"

JZ Replacement

JZ replacement: Disrespectful (JZ Replacement)

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 6, 2020

Uno tra i più eccitanti e trasversali batteristi della nuova scena londinese,Jamie Murray, e un sassofonista di San Pietroburgo, ex enfant prodige cresciuto tra Londra e New York, Zhenya Strigalev, invitano un amico di vecchia data come Tim Lefebvre, presenza assidua in molte produzioni importanti degli ultimi vent'anni. Il risultato è Disrespectful album fresco, eccitante, divertente, ...

Let Spin: Steal The Light

by Chris May
April 25, 2020

Formed in 2014, London's Let Spin is an electric quartet peopled by musicians who emerged around a decade earlier as part of a scene which was rather lazily dubbed “punk jazz" by British music journalists. The music was certainly loud, irreverent and in-your-face, but it was played by musicians who were conservatoire graduates, a demographic not ...

JZ Replacement: Disrespectful

by Chris May
March 16, 2020

Visceralism and virtuosity, the two qualities which define this momentous debut album by JZ Replacement, make an unbeatable combination. They are also a necessary one. Without a degree of virtuosity, eloquence is constrained by lack of vocabulary. Without a degree of visceralism, technical facility is at worst mechanistic, at best purely cerebral. Bring the two qualities ...

Lyle Mays + Alicia Waller, Pat Metheny, Silvia Bolognesi & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 7, 2020

Another master has left us too early, Lyle Mays. A remembrance of his work at its most lyrical, followed by our regular perusal of must-have new releases, with a special focus on albums spotlighting towering young bass players, a stunner of a debut by Alicia Waller and the return of Pat Metheny. Happy ...