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Lisa Mezzacappa Trio: X Marks The Question
by Glenn Astarita
X Marks The Question is one of two concurrent September 2013 releases on separate record labels by burgeoning San Francisco Bay Area-based, bassist composer Lisa Mezzacappa. On Comeuppance (Not Two Records, 2013) she fronts a quartet featuring saxophonist Aaron Bennett but here, spearheads a power-packed progressive jazz trio, highlighting lead soloist, guitarist Chris Welcome. And as ...
Cory Wright Outfit: Apples + Oranges
by Giuseppe Segala
Sassofonista tenore e clarinettista attivo nell'area di San Francisco, Cory Wright ha collaborato con formazioni dirette da Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Yusef Lateef. Nel suo lavoro è coinvolta spesso l'apprezzata contrabbassista Lisa Mezzacappa, presente in questa registrazione, come nel gruppo The Green Mitchell Trio, da lui diretto. Di Apples+Oranges colpisce subito, in esordio ...
Cory Wright Outfit: Apples + Oranges
by Glenn Astarita
Oakland, California based reedman Cory Wright (Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia & Yusef Lateef delivers a manifold and juxtaposing ensemble date on Apples + Oranges. It doesn't take too long to determine that the album poses a surfeit of diagonally opposed viewpoints. Other than the highly emphatic and synergistic group-centric output, Wright's compositions hit the mark, and ...
Cory Wright Unit: Apples + Oranges
by Mark Corroto
In jazz, there are composers and there are soloists and, as they say, “never the twain shall meet." Okay, not impossible, but it is rare in modern jazz for a musician to be both an outstanding soloist and a talented arranger. Listening to Apples + Oranges by West Coast saxophonist Cory Wright, the challenge is to ...
Hell-Bent in the Pacific
Label: GR2 Classics
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Meteorites - 9:20;
02. Inessential melancholies - 2:55;
03. Everything imaginable can be dreamed 7:56;
04. Deformities and discords 1:43;
05. Pendulum 4:32;
06. Fumbling fulminations 2:35;
07. Prisoner of a Gaudy and Unlivable Present - 7:38;
08. Lop-sided heels and frayed shoes 6:59;
09. Catholic comstocking smut-hound 13:17.
Lisa Mezzacappa - Marco Eneidi - Vinny Golia - Vijay Anderson: Hell-Bent in the Pacific
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella fertile e vivace scena musicale della Bay Area sono attivi una serie di musicisti che hanno ravvivato il free made in USA, costituendo un punto di riferimento alternativo rispetto a Chicago e New York. Tra questi si distinguono da tempo Vinny Golia, Liza Mezzacappa e Vijay Anderson. Marco Eneidi invece vive da alcuni anni a ...
Vinny Golia / Marco Eneidi / Lisa Mezzacappa / Vijay Anderson: Hell-Bent In The Pacific
by John Sharpe
Ever since moving to Austria in 2004, Bay Area alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi has flown beneath the radar, particularly in terms of recorded output. His discography boasts some heavy duty entries, including late trumpeter Bill Dixon's Thoughts (Soul Note, 1986) and bass maestro William Parker's Sunrise In The Tone World (Aum Fidelity, 1996), in addition to ...
Lee Konitz, Dan Tepfer, Bill Frisell, Sam Amidon, Vinny Golia, Lisa Mezzacappa, Wayne Krantz & Cliff Almond
by Martin Longley
Lee Konitz / Dan Tepfer Jazz Standard March 21, 2012 An improvising dialogue has been steadily developing between veteran alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and recently emerging pianist Dan Tepfer. Konitz is 84, Tepfer is 30. It's already been three years since their collaborative album on the Sunnyside label , ...
Cosmic Rift
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Cosmic Rift (prelude); Delphinus; The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque; Regard de L'etoile; Ballet; Alvamel's Dream; Cosmic Rift.
Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade: Cosmic Rift
by Troy Collins
Since relocating to San Francisco ten years ago, Staten Island-born bassist Lisa Mezzacappa has established herself as a commanding presence in the vibrant West Coast scene. Mezzacappa's pliant bass lines have provided a stalwart foundation for some of the Bay Area's most dynamic projects, ranging from the visceral excursions of her riotous garage jazz band Bait ...
