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Piano & More: Rich Halley 5, Casey Golden Trio, Jeff Denson Quartet, Fred Hersch Trio, Peter Erskine Trio, & Sirius Quartet
by Mark Sullivan
An assortment of striking jazz/improvisation recordings. Three of them are piano trios--each with their own unique character--but two of them have no piano, or any other harmonic instrument. Rich Halley 5 The Outlier Pine Eagle Records 2016 Tenor saxophonist Rich Halley's longstanding quartet with trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, ...
Geoffrey Eales: Transcience
by Budd Kopman
Transience is Welsh pianist/composer Geoffrey Eales' thirteenth release dating back to 1999. All of the words and music are by Eales, and he has taken this opportunity to express in music his feelings about how ephemeral human existence is in general, but also specifically of the passing within the past year of his mother, as well ...
The Fred Hersch Trio: Sunday Night At The Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Reach up to the CD shelf and pull a handful of Fred Hersch CDS down. You'll find that the pianist has a good thing going with the Village Vanguard. Alive At The Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2012) a stellar two CD set, and terrific solo set, Alone At the Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2011), are Hersch's most recent ...
Peter Erskine Trio: John Taylor/Palle Danielsson: As it Was
by Karl Ackermann
Over the course of five years in the 1990s, drummer Peter Erskine, pianist John Taylor and bassist Palle Danielsson came very close to perfecting the contemporary piano trio presentation. Across four ECM releases, You Never Know (1993), Time Being (1994), As It Is (1996) and Juni (1999), the international group, all with prior ECM history, came ...
Glauco Venier si racconta con Miniatures
by Giuseppe Segala
Miniatures è un piano solo. Ma è anche qualcosa di più, per il modo in cui sono state inserite nel tessuto narrativo le sculture sonore azionate dallo stesso Glauco Venier e per come sono saldate al pensiero che sorregge la musica. La musica respira anche attraverso il dialogo tra pianoforte e sculture sonore, che tracciano una ...
Alberto Pinton e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Alberto Pinton: Intenzione e ambizione di creare musica mia, che rifletta la mia esperienza personale, quello che jazz, composizione e improvvisazione significano per me. AAJI: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. A.P.: Totale libertà espressiva, modestia artistica, ...
Guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos Releases "In The North" - Out Now
In the North is the third album by guitarist Tassos Spiliotopoulos and his first since his relocation from London to Stockholm. Originally from Athens, Greece, Tassos Spiliotopoulos spent the better part of twelve years living in London and establishing a solid reputation as one of the most exciting, up-and-coming guitarists in the UK Jazz scene. He ...
Markus Stockhausen / Florian Weber: Alba
by John Kelman
Sixteen years have passed since Markus Stockhausen was last heard on an ECM recording, but the German trumpeter (and son of renowned composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen) has continued to lead a busy life. The core trio behind 2000's exceptional Karta--notable, in addition to guitarist Terje Rypdal's participation as invited guest, for being largely based on one 90-minute ...
Tutti intorno al piano di Frank Carlberg
by Alberto Bazzurro
Finlandese di nascita e bostoniano d'adozione, il pianista e compositore Frank Carlberg, docente al New England Conservatory e al Berklee College of Music, influenzato da Paul Bley e Ran Blake così come da Jimmy Giuffre, ha collaborato nel tempo con Steve Lacy (ci torneremo), Bob Brookmeyer e Kenny Wheeler, ha scritto musica anche per organici di ...
Vossa Jazz 2016
by Ian Patterson
Vossa Jazz Various venues Voss, Norway March 18-20, 2016 Perched high on the mountain side, the weather-beaten wooden farm houses of the Voss folk museum command a truly impressive view of the town below, ringed by snow-capped mountains, interlocking valleys and ice-covered fjords that stretch to the four points ...
