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Ritratto di Adam O'Farrill
by Angelo Leonardi
Il trentesimo compleanno del trombettista Adam O'Farrill coincide con la pubblicazione di HUESO, il suo settimo album da leader/co-leader prodotto in una carriera singolarmente lunga e prestigiosa. Il primo importante riconoscimento pubblico gli giunge all'età di 21 anni nel 2015, con la vittoria di Bird Calls al critics poll di Down Beat, un album ...
Juanma Trujillo: Howl
by Jerome Wilson
Guitarist Juanma Trujillo's Howl explores some of the ways acoustic guitar can flourish in a small jazz group setting. Instead of playing simple rhythm parts, he is fully engaged in the music made by his three bandmates. His tangled strumming makes an interesting counterpoint to Kevin Sun's barrelling tenor sax on “Catharsis." On “Howl," his abstract ...
Luis Vicente, Roberto Ottaviano, Fujii/Tamura & The Who Trio
by Maurice Hogue
New releases abound this time out, including : two from Clean Feed and both excellent--trumpeter Luis Vicente's Come Down Here & Italy's soprano saxophonist Roberto Ottaviano's Lacy In The Sky With Diamonds ( a tribute to Steve Lacy, not The Beatles); Polish saxophonist Irek Wojtczak's own tribute to a town where he grew up; trumpeter Michael ...
Reflecting The Past, Embracing The Future
by Bob Osborne
Jazz has been around long enough to allow for a massive library of ground breaking legacy music to build up. Current musicians often look back at that legacy, sometimes they use it, sometimes they build upon it and add a current perspective. In this way jazz is allowed to grow and develop whilst remaining true to ...
Simón Willson: Good Company
by Angelo Leonardi
Il fascino melodico obliquo che ricorda Andrew Hill e la libertà ritmica di Paul Motian traspaiono in vari momenti di quest'album, debutto da leader del bassista cileno Simón Willson a capo di un quartetto di talentosi emergenti: il pianista Isaac Wilson, il sassofonista tenore Jacob Shulman e il batterista Jonas Esser. Trasferitosi negli Stati ...
Sarah Manning, Keith Jarrett, and Marc Ribot
by Jerome Wilson
This older program, from November 2021, is eclectic enough to include saxophonists Sarah Manning and Kevin Sun, guitarists Marc Ribot and Jakob Bro, and singers Dave Frishberg and Sarah Vaughan. Please excuse the slight glitches at the beginning. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & ...
Kevin Sun: The Depths of Memory
by Vincenzo Roggero
Kevin Sun è un ancor giovane sassofonista e compositore newyorkese di origini asiatiche non troppo conosciuto alle nostre latitudini, ma già autore di numerosi lavori che lo hanno segnalato alla critica d'oltreoceano e fatto crescere in considerazione presso i suoi colleghi. Sun è musicista dotato di grande talento ed altrettanta grande ambizione -soprattutto compositiva-come ben illustrato ...
Peter Van Huffel, Mary Halvorson & Liba Villavechia
by Maurice Hogue
Canadian expat-saxophonist Peter Van Huffel has found a place amidst that hotbed of free-wheeling music in Berlin, and his latest release with his band Callisto reinforces his position as one of the exciting voices working today. Meandering Demons out on Clean Feed introduces a newer band with (Clean Feed) with another Canadian who spends a lot ...
David Bixler, Milosz Pieczonka, Reza Askari, Marilyn Crispell & Jason Stein
by Maurice Hogue
This edition of One Man's Jazz is the 600th done for Taint Radio, and to mark the occasion two albums that would have fit in perfectly with Black History Month in February, but good music has no timetable. Saxophonist David Bixler drew upon not on the jazz poetry of the great Black Poet, Langston Hughes, but ...
Kevin Sun: Emotion, Technique, and the Language of Jazz
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On saxophonist/composer Kevin Sun. Kevin joined us to discuss, among other things, his dramatic double album from 2023, The Depths of Memory ((Endectomorph), which was released in two halves: From All This Stillness in July The Depths in Slow Motion in October. Kevin's an intense yet accessible player and composer--and a true ...
