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Come Down Here
By Luis Vicente
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Come Down Here; Hope II; Mandei Caiar o Meu Sobrado; Why No Is No; Nascente; Penumbra.
Luis Vicente Trio: Come Down Here
by Glenn Astarita
The Luis Vicente Trio's Come Down Here is a bold exploration of free jazz that morphs pure improvisation with hints of conventional structure. While it may not aspire to be a masterpiece, it offers an engaging and often exhilarating journey into the unpredictable realms of spontaneous musical creation. From the opening notes of the ...
Patricia Brennan, Ola Tunji & Ingerbrigt Haker-Flaten
by Maurice Hogue
Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan put together a very strong ensemble to make Breaking Stretch, one of the best releases of 2024. Her original compositions and ever-growing skills on her instrument draw on elements of her native Mexico, and that helps to set apart this terrific new album. The free jazz scene of Mexico City gets additional space ...
Pedro Melo Alves: Conundrum Vol. 1 - Itself Through Disappearance
by Mark Corroto
Great rock drummers are often ignored. One never pays attention to them during a performance because they are excellent, like Rolling Stones stalwart {Charlie Watts. If, however, they are not up to scratch, one definitely will notice. The same and more so can be said for jazz and improvising drummers. Talent, imagination and creativity are at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Olie Brice / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders: Immense Blue
by John Sharpe
Even given today's abundance of new issues in whatever genre, there are still bands which travel beneath the radar. One such is the trio of established UK improvisers comprising bassist Olie Brice, saxophonist Rachel Musson and drummer Mark Sanders which releases Immense Blue as its debut album. As a unit it has been around for a ...
Alma Tree: Sonic Alchemy Suprema
by Karl Ackermann
New York native Ra Kalam Bob Moses grew up in the same building as Max Roach, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. Early on he saw performances by many of the best jazz drummers in history, including Roy Haynes, Rashied Ali, Milford Graves, Billy Higgins, and Ed Blackwell. As a teenager in the mid-1960s, he played with ...
House In The Valley
By Luis Vicente
Label: Clean Feed
Released: 2023
Track listing: Anahata + Little Dance; Luísa's Laugh + House In The Valley.
Luis Vicente 4tet: House In The Valley
by John Sharpe
Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente wrote the four compositions which make up House In The Valley during lockdown. His intention was to evoke childhood memories of times at his grandparents' rural house. Judging from the outcomes there must have been a lot of '60s American New Thing on the turntable at the time. In particular the way ...
