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Marco Postacchini Big Band: One Finger Snap
by Angelo Leonardi
Radicata nella tradizione del mainstream orchestrale (quella di Count Basie, Gerald Wilson e Thad Jones in particolare) la big band di Marco Postacchini è un'ottima Swing Machine" che presenta in questo disco un variegato repertorio che spazia da composizioni di Herbie Hancock ("One Finger Snap") a Steve Swallow ("Eiderdown"), si tinge di colori latini (Antonio Carlos ...
New Releases Plus Holiday Music, Birthday Shoutouts, Grammy Nominees & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast begins the holidays with music of the season from John Paul McGee and Hendrik Meurkens new releases from Karen Hammack, The Airmen of Note, Russ Lorenson and Margot Sergent, more nods to Grammy nominees plus birthday shoutouts to Judy Carmichael, Rebecca Coupe Franks, Ethel Ennis, Sylvia Syms, Melissa Aldana, June Christy, Maria Schneider and ...
Allison Au: Migrations
by Dan McClenaghan
Canadian saxophonist Allison Au says she was drawn to the simplicity of a jazz quartet as a vehicle for realizing the visions of my original compositions." Charlie Parker must have felt the same way; Art Pepper, too. And John Coltrane. Au stuck to this format for her Wander Wonder (Self Produced, 2018) and 2017's self-produced Forest ...
Gerardo Pepe: Orchestrando Piano
by Angelo Leonardi
Mostra doti di prim'ordine il giovane orchestratore e bandleader pugliese, al suo debutto discografico con una piccola orchestra di giovani e giovanissimi. Lo stesso Gerardo Pepe aveva da poco superato i trent'anni al momento dell'incisione (novembre 2021), realizzata dopo un brillante curriculum: diploma con lode in pianoforte classico al conservatorio Martini di Bologna e laurea di ...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension
by Angelo Leonardi
Precursore nel 2009 (con l'innovativo Infernal Machines) del nuovo rinascimento orchestrale nel jazz, Darcy James Argue approda all'etichetta Nonesuch e pubblica il nuovo album in studio: un doppio CD realizzato con i consueti partner della Secret Society più l'aggiunta della cantante Cecile McLorin Salvant e della violinista Sara Caswell. A differenza degli ultimi ...
Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces
by Jerome Wilson
The subtitle of this album is Folk Songs Reimagined" and Daniel Hersog uses a very liberal meaning for the term folk song" here. He includes traditional folk songs on this album, in addition to familiar tunes by Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot and his own folk-based compositions. All are given a glistening polish in the sweeping ...
Lage Lund: Idlewild
by C. Andrew Hovan
An open and revealing format for any artist, the jazz trio offers rewards on many levels. Left in veracious hands, there is a spacious pocket that can be filled by any number of rhythmic and harmonic ideas, not to mention a freedom in melodic phrases which don't have to be constrained by strict chordal structures. On ...
Jonathan Kreisberg: Night Songs
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although technical proficiency and filigreed improvisations often catch the attention of the average jazz fan, those in the know will insist that you can't really evaluate the mettle of a jazz musician until you hear how he interprets a ballad. Memorable efforts from the jazz cannon that fruitfully establish a reflective mood over the length of ...
Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Kemet (The Black Land)
by Jack Bowers
On Kemet (The Black Land), trombonist/composer Javier Nero pays homage to a highly advanced African civilization that flourished before the Egyptian kingdom was established and thousands of years before the Greek and Roman empires that are hailed today as the pillars of modern/western culture. Even though Kemet is all but forgotten in 2023, Nero (whose name ...