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Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019

by John Kelman
July 5, 2019

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27 -July 1, 2019 Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...

Article: Album Review

Alex Sipiagin: NoFo Skies

Read "NoFo Skies" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 30, 2019

An active veteran of touring stages around the world, Russian trumpeter Alex Sipiagin has sessioned with, among many, Dr. John, Elvis Costello, Dave Holland's Big Band, Michael Brecker's Sextet and Quindecet, plus the Mingus Big Band, Dynasty Band, and Orchestra. For NoFo Skies, his first disc on Blue Room, Sipiagin reassembles his crackling three-horn septet from ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bill Frisell, Tom Harrell, Wadada Leo Smith and Other Great New Releases

by Bob Osborne
April 25, 2019

A show packed with new music featuring new releases from Chuck Deardorf, Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan, Matt Brewer, Josh Lawrence, Tom Harrell, and Wadada Leo Smith. Playlist Chuck Deardorf “Lullaby" from Perception (Origin Records) 00:00 Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan “You Only Live Twice" from Epistrophy (ECM) 07:23 Josh Lawrence “We're Happiest ...

Article: Album Review

Misha Tsiganov: Playing With The Wind

Read "Playing With The Wind" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 2, 2019

Pianist Misha Tsiganov seems to further his creative reach with each date he delivers. While calculation and supreme specificity with the pen always help to keep things grounded in his music, the level of daring in Tsiganov's compositions and the high degree of spontaneity he brings to the fore through his piano help to continually push ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Monder: Day After Day

Read "Day After Day" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 26, 2019

On Day After Day, Ben Monder explores memories triggered by songs. Over two discs, one solo and the other with bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Ted Poor, the guitarist rouses impressions formed long ago. Just like a certain fragrance can spark the memory of an old lover, songs deep in your brain's hard drive can be ...

Article: Album Review

Jason Palmer: Rhyme And Reason

Read "Rhyme And Reason" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 21, 2019

You may wish you had paid more attention in your high school chemistry class, because listening to Rhyme And Reason by trumpeter Jason Palmer calls to mind the description of the nucleus of an atom. Spinning and spinning, various protons and neutrons are both attracted and held off by each other. Same can be said of ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Wendel: The Seasons

Read "The Seasons" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 11, 2019

L'evoluzione del progetto The Seasons di Ben Wendel trova organica espressione in un nuovo collettivo. La prima realizzazione è avvenuta nel 2015, con dodici duo-performance (pubblicate su YouTube) effettuate con altrettanti partner: Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Ambrose Akinmusire, Julian Lage ecc... Le composizioni sono state arrangiate l'anno successivo per dei concerti in quintetto alla Jazz Gallery ...

Article: Album Review

Jason Palmer: Rhyme And Reason

Read "Rhyme And Reason" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
January 31, 2019

Jazz albums without chordal instruments can sometimes sound arid. But that is decidedly not the case with Jason Palmer's Rhyme And Reason. The members of his quartet fit together organically, and the contrapuntal interplay between the trumpeter and his co-front man, tenorist Mark Turner, is remarkably tight. But the backline too is populated by a taut ...

Article: Album Review

Claudio Fasoli N.Y. 4ET: Selfie

Read "Selfie" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
December 17, 2018

Il 2017 è stato un anno ricchissimo per Claudio Fasoli, sia sul versante della produzione musicale che su quello dei riconoscimenti al valore artistico. Ha pubblicato due notevoli album per l'etichetta Abeat (Inner Sounds e Haiku Time) ed è stato votato musicista dell'anno dalla critica italiana. Anche l'incisione di questo disco risale a quella stagione, essendo ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Wendel: The Seasons

Read "The Seasons" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 5, 2018

For many centuries composers have set to music the different seasons each new year has to offer (lately, some show the tendency of disappearing more and more. Seasons, not composers). Baroque composer Vivaldi's very straightforward division in four on “Le Quattro Stagioni" has to be one of the most prominent examples. Saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel ...