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Stephen Gauci / Adam Lane / Kevin Shea: Bulletins From The Frontline
by John Sharpe
Until the pandemic hit, tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci's trio, with bassist Adam Lane and drummer Kevin Shea, formed the keystone of the Bushwick Improvisers Series organized by the hornman. The band had played every week since the summer of 2017, give or take the occasional substitution, either as a threesome or with the addition of guitarist ...
3x3: Piano Trios: January 2021
by Geno Thackara
Eivind Austad New Orleans Trio That Feeling Losen Records 2020 To cue this one up without knowing anything about it, one would easily think it was an informal session or maybe a late-night club jam among New Orleans natives. It couldn't matter less that the leader is Norwegian (visiting the Crescent ...
Archival Finds: Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans and Chet Baker
by Jerome Wilson
Here are three releases of newly discovered material by iconic jazz musicians from the '50s and '60s. Two fall in line with the leaders' established legacies while the third presents its subject in surprising company. The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time OutTakes Brubeck Editions 2020 This CD consists ...
Two 2020 releases from Stefan Thut
by John Eyles
Back in 2016, when two albums by Swiss cellist and composer Stefan Thut were released within weeks of one another, it was pertinent to comment on the relative slimness of his discography. When autumn 2020 saw the release of his Among hot on the heels of Atama, the comment remained true, the intervening years having brought ...
Andrea Massaria: The Spring of My Life e Zappa Speech Project
by Neri Pollastri
Nella sua inesausta ricerca di nuovi modi di sviluppare la musica improvvisata, ricerca che passa inevitabilmente anche dalla collaborazione con nuovi partner, il chitarrista triestino Andrea Massaria incontra qui due situazioni piuttosto diverse l'una dall'altra, entrambe tuttavia assai inusuali per progettualità e costruzione della musica. Andrea Massaria, Clementine Gasser The Spring of ...
Apartment House on Another Timbre
by John Eyles
In 1995 cellist Anton Lukoszevieve formed the group Apartment House. With between forty and fifty musicians listed as members —including such illustrious names as violinists Angharad Davies and Mira Benjamin, pianist Philip Thomas and clarinetist Heather Roach alongside Lukoszevieve himself--the group has a flexible line-up which changes according to the music being performed (as in the ...
A Musical Tryptich: Between Jazz, Folklore And Song
by Friedrich Kunzmann
The three albums below come from international European groups (among them one with a substantial Asian infusion) who recognize no boundaries in music nor borders between nations. Taking a variety of musical idioms and traditions and turning them into something new, each musician here is inspired by the lack of musical limitations that allows them to ...
Stephen Gauci Pandemic Duets
by John Sharpe
When everything shut down in March 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, New York City native tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci initiated what he thought would be a set of five duet recordings in a refusal to be cowed by the lack of performance opportunities. In fact the collection has run to some 19 entries over that ...
The Art of ILK
by Jakob Baekgaard
Formed in 2007, ILK (an abbreviation of Independent Label of København) is an artist-run label based in Copenhagen, encompassing a collective of 21 adventurous musicians. They started out as the young rebels of the Danish jazz scene but have become the established pioneers of the new Danish avantgarde. If you think of the avantgarde as an ...
Two versions of one piece from Magnus Granberg
by John Eyles
Ever since Ist Gefallen In Der Schnee, written by Magnus Granberg and performed by his group Skogen, was released to great acclaim on Another Timbre in 2012, the label has issued a steady trickle of recordings by the Swedish composer. Only a couple of Granberg albums on INSUB have bucked the trend—one a composition commissioned for ...
