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The Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures - Monday Night Sessions, vol 1
by Jack Bowers
Even though the name Gil Evans has a hallowed ring these days, the late composer / arranger's music remains for many aficionados an acquired taste. On the other hand, while that is the Gil Evans Orchestra performing on Hidden Treasures, Volume 1, the lion's share of the music brought to light isn't his--Evans wrote only two ...
Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures - Monday Night Sessions, vol 1
by Angelo Leonardi
A tre decenni dalla morte del suo leader, esce il 7 dicembre il nuovo disco della Gil Evans Orchestra finalmente registrato in studio. Com'è noto, sia gli ultimi album della band con l'arrangiatore ancora in vita, sia il postumo Tribute To Gil (Soul Note 1989), con la formazione orfana, erano registrazioni live, spesso acusticamente carenti. Per ...
Yoko Miura, Gianni Mimmo: Departure
by Neri Pollastri
Ennesimo lavoro di grande spessore da parte di Gianni Mimmo, stavolta in duo con la pianista giapponese Yoko Miura. La musica è come suo solito improvvisata, anche se qua e là fanno capolino temi presi a spunto della creatività istantanea, le atmosfere, pur nella cifra tipica della ricerca e oscillante tra rarefazione e intensa concitazione, piuttosto ...
Jeong Lim Yang: Déjà Vu
by Troy Dostert
On her excellent debut record, Déjà Vu, bassist Jeong Lim Yang proves that there's more than one way to make a first impression on a listener. Rather than taking the obvious route with up-tempo workouts or deviously complex compositions, Yang is content to carve out plenty of open space for her music to breathe. Her graceful ...
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017
by John Kelman
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...
Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan: Small Town
by John Kelman
In Emma Franz's revelatory documentary, Bill Frisell: A Portrait, the guitarist talks about the many guitars he owns, and how he rarely gets to plays them--the consequence, amongst other things, of the plight musicians face when traveling by air these days. Not three months after the film's premiere at South By Southwest this past March, comes ...
Recent And Upcoming ECM Releases: April - June 2017
Look for these recent or upcoming releases on ECM Records. Aaron Parks Find the Way Aaron Parks: piano, Ben Street: double bass, Billy Hart: drums. For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks—following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest”—the prize-winning pianist has convened a cross-generational trio ...
Rema Hasumi: Billows Of Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Rema Hasumi, Japanese-born and now New York City-based, calls her compositions sound stories. Those “stories" sound like tales drifting out of a dream land: untethered to time and place, free-flowing and graceful, strikingly pretty, sometimes spooky, and starkly rendered, with the input of her empathic trio that includes bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Randy Peterson, ...
Black Orpheus
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tokyo Part I; Tokyo Part II; Tokyo Part III; Tokyo Part IV; Tokyo Part V; Black Orpheus; Tokyo Part VI; Tokyo Part VII; Tokyo Part VIII; Tokyo Part IX; Little Abi.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases Of 2016
by Dan McClenaghan
The music keeps moving forward, evolving to higher levels. My search for the best jazz recordings of 2016 led me to these marvelous CDs. Wadada Leo SmithAmerica's National Parks Cuneiform Records Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has attempted in, the new millennium, to create his magnum opus. He may have succeeded ...
