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Sean Mac Erlaine: Long After The Music Is Gone and This Is How We Fly
by Ian Patterson
The common denominator between these two CDs is Dublin-based multi-reedman/composer Seán Mac Erlaine, one of the most progressive musicians in Ireland today. Equally at home in contemporary jazz, free improvisation or traditional/modern Irish folk settings, Mac Erlaine has been a leading figure in Irish experimental music for a decade. As one of the curators of the ...
Kari Ikonen: Bright and The Helsinki Suite
by John Ephland
Kari Ikonen Trio Bright Ozella Music 2013 The 40-year-old Finnish keyboardist Kari Ikonen--first heard by this reviewer in a live context in his native homeland with another, much more open and unconventional trio Slo Motive--lets his jazz chops shine, his groove glisten and his range within the music flourish with these ...
Turkish Free Music Box Set
by Eyal Hareuveni
This project is a labor of love. It began when guitarist Umut Çağlar, head of the Turkish avant-jazz label and musicians collective and band KonstruKt, found a new edition of a rare album documenting the musical meeting of American multi-instrumentalist Phil Musra with one of the forefathers of Turkish free jazz scene, drummer Hüseyin Ertunç (At ...
John Lilja's Robblerobble
by Eyal Hareuveni
American double bassist John Lilja, based in Stavanger, Norway, for more than 15 years, has collaborated frequently with the fertile, genre-bending, community of musicians of Stavanger, among them saxophonist Frode Gjerstad' s Circulasione Totale Orchestra, Kitchen Orchestra and trumpeter Gunhild Seim's Time Jungle. The quintet Robblerobble is Lilja's first project as a ...
A Pair On Polí5: DoMa Ensemble and Limbo
by Dan Bilawsky
Polí5 is a small, Prague-based imprint that takes its name from the bookstore/cultural hub from whence the music comes. The store opened its doors in 2006, but its proprietors were involved in supporting independent artists long before that. Under the name “Manuzio," they “ran the 'Apartment gallery,' held concerts and theatre performances and published low-edition book ...
Le "middle bands" di Mike McGinnis
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quarant'anni giusti giusti, nativo del Maine, il clarinettista e compositore Mike McGinnis sforna a un paio di mesi l'uno dall'altro due album che, incisi tra il febbraio e il giugno 2012, ce ne consegnano un'immagine per un verso dicotomica, per un altro sostanzialmente conseguente. Vi si alternano infatti due differenti middle bands, il che da un ...
Leigh Carriage: Get Out Of Town/Mandarin Skyline
by Ian Patterson
After just one studio album in the previous eight years--Until (Self Produced, 2004)--Australian singer/composer Leigh Carriage has released not one but two albums in less than a year, showcasing different sides of her musical personality--the interpreter of standards/torch songs, and the songwriter. Lismore, NSW-based Carriage is Head of Vocal Studies at Southern Cross University, and there's ...
Introducing Polish Trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski
by Eyal Hareuveni
Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski, now based in Denmark, is a rising and promising force in the European scene. He has a strong, instantly recognizable sound and expressive tone. His versatile musical language references the American fiery free jazz, Eastern European and Balkan folk music, the Scandinavian contemplative jazz and contemporary, avant-garde music. Dąbrowski already released eleven ...
Julian Lage: una chitarra in volo libero
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nonostante la giovane età (appena 25 anni), il chitarrista Julian Lage può vantare un curriculum di tutto rispetto, con due album incisi da titolare, tre come cotitolare, e numerose partecipazioni discografiche come sideman, iniziate appena dodicenne con la partecipazione ad un album di duetti del mandolinista David Grisman. Ex bambino prodigio di formazione classica, il suo ...
Libor Smoldas: Intuition and Dreamtime
by Chris Mosey
Libor Smoldas is one of the best jazz guitarists the Czech Republic has produced in recent years. He plays extremely fluent, straight ahead music in the Jim Hall tradition, with overtones of Kenny Burrell. He is more relaxed, less intense than his contemporary, David Doruzka, best known of the current crop of Czech jazz guitarists. Smoldas ...
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