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Article: Year in Review

2017: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 5, 2018

A year of achievements, challenges to gender inequality, scandal and losses The year 2017 was quite something for the jazz world. Incidents or discussions of misogyny and sexual misconduct bubbled up even before the #MeToo phenomenon developed. Beyond that, woman musicians made significant contributions to the genre. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage ...

Album

Mannequins

By Kate Gentile

Label: Skirl Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: stars covered in clouds of metal; trapezoidal nirvana; unreasonable optimism; hammergaze; Otto, on alien shoulders; xenomorphic; wrack; cardiac logic; full lucid; sear; Micronesia parakeet; alchemy melt [with tilt]; SSGF.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Matt Mitchell, un pianoforte declinato al futuro

by Luca Canini
November 13, 2017

Se da un lato c'è Tim Berne che ti affida le chiavi del suo quartetto, e dall'altro Steve Coleman che al momento di mettere qualcuno davanti a una tastiera non esita a comporre il tuo numero, vuol dire che qualcosa di buono al pianoforte lo sai fare. Certo, poi serve anche altro per uscire definitivamente allo ...

Article: Album Review

Kate Gentile: Mannequins

Read "Mannequins" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 9, 2017

With the stimulating Mannequins, the New York based drummer Kate Gentile has created a cohesive and engaging album. On this first release under her own name, Gentile superbly balances emotive passion and intellectual acumen. Her intricate compositions are simultaneously fully realized and vibrantly supple and pliant as to allow for independent spontaneous expressions. The ...

Article: Album Review

Jasmine Lovell-Smith's Towering Poppies: Yellow Red Blue

Read "Yellow Red Blue" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 2, 2016

Soprano saxophonist/composer Jasmine Lovell-Smith released her excellent debut CD, Fortune Songs in 2012, two years after her move from her native New Zealand to New York. Four years later--after studies with Anthony Braxton and a move to Morelia, Mexico--she offers a follow-up effort, Yellow Red Blue. First rate debuts set up the expectations. Sophomore ...