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The Branford Marsalis Quartet: The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul
by Mike Jurkovic
It was back in 2012 when the last quartet-only recording Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music) was released. So give more room on the floor to the evil toys dancing their pants off to the pure, wild, free-styling surge of “Dance of the Evil Toys," the killer, lead-off track to the Branford Marsalis Quartet's first full ...
Bodhisattwa Ghosh: The Grey Album
by Mike Jurkovic
By incessantly stacking one post-rock ambiguity upon another, Calcutta's Bodhisattwa Trio's The Grey Album is anything but. Instead, The Grey Album is an animated aggregate of garage-band sound and fury determined to turn your head, prick your ears, and rattle your sensibilities while leading you through seven swirling, roiling, soundscapes. Injecting into the mix ...
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
by Mike Jurkovic
Perhaps curiously or perhaps purposely for these two inspired alumni of Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory, The Transitory Poems enters existence with the anticipatory, lets-get-acquainted improvisation “Life Line (Seven Tensions)," before each pianist's creative wanderlust and imagination takes hold and the music becomes a ranging, raging real-time white-hot collaborative statement. Recorded live at the Franz ...
Antoine Karacostas: Insulary Tales
by Mike Jurkovic
Paris based pianist Antoine Karacostas may have set out to write the music for Insulary Tales to evoke the idea of insularity and one's individual response to the natural world around them, but in the end he's created an emotional, ten song cycle universal to us all. A recording of hushed, sustained beauty and ...
Triple Tea: The Tunnel
by Mike Jurkovic
Triple Tea rip open their debut recording The Tunnel with the arena-sized rock'n'roll pugnaciousness of “1994," a powerhouse panorama that instantly reveals the 3D view of jazz and its many incorporated elements. The seven tracks comprising The Tunnel all exhibit sweeping overtures and seemingly effortless, certainly seamless movements between song sections, reminiscent of the ...
David Torn: Sun Of Goldfinger
by Mike Jurkovic
For less daring and disillusioned audiences, David Torn's ongoing conversation and debate with the twenty-first century Sun of Goldfinger might sound unnervingly like seventy-plus minutes of tuneless, churning exposition laying waste to conventional form. For the rest, these three uncompromising works create an immersive excursion into an intense creative mind opening itself to all possibilities.
Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions
by Mike Jurkovic
2018 was a spectacular year for archival jazz. Just a quick glance at last year's releases includes John Coltrane's Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album (Verve), Coltrane's further adventures on Miles Davis & John Coltrane The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Legacy), and Erroll Garner's revelatory Nightconcert (Mack Avenue Records) quickly taking its ...
Stephanie Richards: Take The Neon Lights
by Mike Jurkovic
Trumpeter/composer Steph Richards kicks ass and she wants you to know it from the very first cutting, fluttering evocations of Take The Neon Lights' title tune/opener to the near “Taps"-like silence that closes things out, “All the Years of Our Lives." With a colorful CV of playing alongside such boundary-busting, risk-taking players as David ...
Sigmar Matthíasson: Arora
by Mike Jurkovic
Now working and studying in New York, Icelandic bassist/composer Sigmar Matthiasson crossed the cold Atlantic with the groundbreaking sounds of Jaco Pastorius, Led Zeppelin, Reggie Workman, Ron Carter, and Scott LaFaro in his head and dreams. It's no wonder that Matthíasson's lyrical and eminently likable debut recording exhibits such a classic American feel. From ...
Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, Federico Ughi.: New York United
by Mike Jurkovic
Like all folk musics exposed to migration, the rhythms shift and drone. The bottom falls out of harmonic structures and then reconstitutes from thin air. Oratorical woodwinds, strings, horns and whistles mournfully proclaim or brightly celebrate. Bringing New York folk music to light, New York United open their self-titled disc with the pulsating “Canal Street," a ...
