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Giacomo Merega / David Tronzo / Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
This is an impressive record composed of ten improvised tracks whose titles are inspired by the work of Paul Klee. Klee, a Swiss cubist painter, may be relatively unknown--as is gifted guitarist David Tronzo--and what the artfully omitted subordinate clause of the album's first track might say is unclear, but it's helpful to know the first, ...
George Schuller's Circle Wide: Like Before, Somewhat After
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
This writer's familiarity with the physical concept known as dewpoint is as extensive as can be expected from someone who spent much of her science classes with a literary magazine hidden underneath her notebook. “Dewpoint," the appropriately titled opening track of the sophomore release of George Schuller's Circle Wide, is perhaps as elucidating as any semester-long ...
Planet Safety: Planet Safety
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Bob Gullotti, Leo Genovese and Dave Zinno really know how to end their pieces. This may seem incidental or, in any case, not a heavy matter. But it is, especially when you contrast it to the way many jazz musicians end their pieces, if they do at all. Too often, pieces are ended rather than left ...
Ben Aronov, Jay Leonhart: Alone Together
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
There's something to be said about the sureness with which Ben Aronov and Jay Leonhart play as a duo. A recording they did in the studio in the '80s was pushed back for years, finally released as Alone Together. The title could not be more fitting. The album stands as a work of syncretism; Aronov was ...
Adam Rogers: Time and the Infinite
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Too often, liner notes have about the objectiveness of a recommendation letter written by a mother on behalf of her child. It's possible that good qualities are exalted, but it's just as likely that strengths are exaggerated and comparisons with the genre's greats are too easily made. Guitarist Adam Rogers' latest recording is a notable exception. ...
Jason Kao Hwang / Edge: Stories Before Within
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
It is difficult to escape the storytelling element of the new release Stories Before Within. There's that title for one; the cover art prominently displays an open book and the first sentence in the liner notes emphatically declares, “as he prepared his new release by Edge, violinist-composer Jason Kao Hwang was thinking about storytelling."
Houston Person: Don't Misunderstand & Thinking of You
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Etta Jones/Houston Person Don't Misunderstand HighNote 2007 Houston Person Thinking of You HighNote 2007 Collaborations are ubiquitous in jazz. Legendary ones are rarer, but still existent. When ...
Trio Beyond: Saudades
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
It's interesting to note how many liner notes begin with variations upon the same story. A shared enthusiasm for a jazz icon or a similar approach to playing leads musicians for whom the very thought of collaborating seems uncanny to form a trio, a quartet, or what have you. The group is usually solid, with decent ...
Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser: Metal Rat
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Much has been said about brevity by men who were anything but. Now, art benefits from aesthetic and compositional purity--no unnecessary lines, no superfluous words, no ostentatious displays of skill--but it is usually a byproduct of a brilliant work, not the sole purpose. Pianist Russ Lossing, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser manage dexterously to ...
ECM Guitar: Prezens; The Third Quartet
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
David Torn Prezens ECM 2007 John Abercrombie Quartet The Third Quartet ECM 2007 Guitarist David Torn is no stranger to anonymity. He has written the scores for ...
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