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3x3: Piano Trios: March 2022

by Geno Thackara
March 23, 2022

Fergus McCreadie Forest Floor Edition Records 2022 The sound of the Fergus McCreadie Trio is the sound of joy. While there are recognizable elements in the mix from bop to (primarily) earthy folk, the brilliant outfit's music isn't a fusion of styles so much an impressionistic whirlwind. The exuberance here makes ...

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Samo Šalamon, prolifica libertà

by Neri Pollastri
February 28, 2022

Chitarrista e compositore sloveno assai prolifico e dalle mille frequentazioni, Samo Šalamon, che abbiamo appena intervistato compare nelle situazioni più disparate in questi dodici lavori pubblicati tra il 2018 e il 2022, con il recentissimo omaggio a Eric Dolphy, figurandovi comunque sempre come titolare o contitolare. Vediamoli uno a uno fino. Samo Šalamon, ...

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Martin Wind: No Second Thoughts

by Doug Collette
February 26, 2022

Bassist/composer Martin Wind is nothing if not brave. But then any contemporary jazz instrumentalist courageous enough to so forthrightly comport himself on the instrument in the shadow of the late icons such as Charles Mingus and Jaco Pastorius would certainly have no compunctions about recording and releasing two differently conceived albums within just months of each ...

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Two on Ftarri

by John Eyles
February 18, 2022

One of several sub-labels of Improvised Music From Japan (others include Hitorri and Meenna), the Ftarri imprint released its first recording, Mainstream by The International Nothing, in 2006. (By the way, Ftarri is also the name of a CD store and performance space which opened in Suidobashi, Tokyo, in 2012.) The Ftarri label only releases music ...

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3x3: Piano Trios: January 2022

by Geno Thackara
February 3, 2022

Little North Familiar Places April Music 2022 While Little North's elegant variety of Scandinavian not-really-abstract impressionism stays as Northern as ever, their musical landscape is anything but little. Their second outing keeps all the strengths of their evocative debut Finding Seagulls (Self Produced, 2021) and expands in ways big and small. ...

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Catching Up With 2021 Releases

by Jerome Wilson
January 21, 2022

Despite another year of pandemic-related restrictions and limited live jazz performances, there was still the usual flood of new jazz recordings in 2021. Here are a few of the overlooked gems from the past few months that deserve some recognition. Joe Fielder's Open Sesame Fuzzy and Blue Multiphonics Music 2021 ...

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New to Another Timbre

by John Eyles
January 18, 2022

Any music fan casually scanning the credits of Another Timbre's catalogue of releases (which is rapidly nearing the two hundred mark) could not fail to be impressed by such established names as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Antoine Beuger and Jurg Frey. Just as impressive are those who have increased in popularity as a result of their ...

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Jared Schonig's Two Takes

by Jerome Wilson
January 17, 2022

Drummer Jared Schonig has tried something different on his first recording as a leader. He has released two albums featuring the same eight original compositions played in two different settings, one with a quintet and one with a big band. The drive and muscular rhythmic pulse of his writing come through in both configurations.

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Michael Robinson: Piano Improvisation Series

by Karl Ackermann
January 10, 2022

Depending on the source, New York native, Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist/composer Michael Robinson is associated with the electronic, classical, world, or jazz genre. The ambiguousness is a byproduct of an artist whose more than one-hundred-sixty albums have touched upon all those categories. Robinson's influences include Bartók, Yeats, Chinese poetry, Morton Feldman, Lennie Tristano, John Coltrane and Lee ...

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Fred Hersch and Hiromi: Great Minds

by Doug Collette
January 6, 2022

Contemplating the thought that Fred Hersch and Hiromi discussed the concept for these records in advance is little more fascinating than pondering how they came up with the idea independently of each other. While both artists reside within the general scope of jazz, each travels markedly different paths around the terrain: Hersch is the more traditional ...