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Linda Sikhakhane: Iladi
by Mike Jurkovic
The music of South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane does not so much originate from a particular point in time or space or history as much as it expands and accelerates forth from the sub-Sahara's heady mists. Billowing, charging. Seething, soothing. So ease back and let Iladi (a Zulu wisdom ritual) happen. Let the moves of diaspora move ...
Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix Reimagined (Live)
by Mike Jurkovic
The certifiable beauty of Phoenix Reimagined (Live) is that it all happens in very very real time as Lakecia Benjamin comes fiercely into her immediate own and then, in a tear of a performance that blisters the paint on the wall, surpasses herself. It is a momentous achievement. One that we rarely get to hear up ...
Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez: A Letter To The Earth
by Mike Jurkovic
From the onset of its spiraling, corkscrew self, A Letter to the Earth finds two ever-emerging forces--pianist Kris Davis and drummer Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez--locked into the mindset that home base (Earth) is screwed-up and (we) had better do something about it! Like yesterday. Gonzalez, hailing from the climate-buffeted Dominican Republic, knows firsthand ...
Daniel Carter, Matthew Putman, Federico Ughi: Stream of a Dream
by Mike Jurkovic
Whether the listener accepts a certain definition of logistics as set in scriptural stone or they do not, does not really faze the the logics of saxophone colossus Daniel Carter, pianist Matthew Putman, and drummer Federico Ughi when they report to the stage and cavort with the muse. At the core of the whole ...
Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, & Zakir Hussain with Rakesh Chaurasia at Ulster Performing Arts Center
by Mike Jurkovic
Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, & Zakir Hussain with Rakesh Chaurasia Ulster Performing Arts Center Kingston, NY June 14, 2024 Given that most of the old space heads who groove on these other forms of communication can't see that well to drive at night anymore, it was a bigger crowd than ...
Alexa Torres: In Situ
by Mike Jurkovic
With balletic verve, Latin violinist Alexa Torres goes about her debut disc, the hugely confident, ear and eye opening In Situ, with an inquisitive gusto and aplomb that belies her thirty-one years. A skilled, peer-reviewed ethnographic researcher, Torres is also the first woman and first violinist to graduate from the University of North Texas ...
Oded Tzur: My Prophet
by Mike Jurkovic
Simultaneously an open call to prayer and a frisky dance of the debutantes, “Epilogue" and “Child You" beckon and pirouette the muse, the spirit, the higher gods of our calling to come and celebrate My Prophet. Crazy good from the solemn “Epilogue" to the rattling closer, “Last Bike Ride In Paris," My Prophet is ...
Daniel Carter: Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2
by Mike Jurkovic
Do we ever run out of music? Do the fanboy and girl ever forget their first song? Do composers, and players of every stripe (though the court is out on most pop mavens and mistresses), ever come upon their very last note? Saxophonist, multi-reedist and free-jazz icon Daniel Carter certainly has not. And Telepathic Mysteries Vol. ...
David Murray Quartet at The Village Vanguard
by Mike Jurkovic
David Murray Quartet Village Vanguard New York, NY May 14, 2024 David Murray's feisty sax sound--sharp, honest, torrential--kicked off this particularly West Side spring evening whirling through “Ninno" one of the seven highlight jams on the richly rewarding Francesca (Intakt Records, 2024). The new quartet--Murray, wizened pianist Marta Sanchez, ...
Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Magical Incantation
by Mike Jurkovic
If the purest form of communication is music then Magical Incantation--the latest free-form essay to flow from the spirits of free jazz titans sax master Ivo Perelman and piano master Matthew Shipp--could very well be the very definition. No strangers to each other (the two have released nineteen duet recordings, not to mention their ...
