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Kris Davis Infrasound: Save Your Breath
by Glenn Astarita
Nascent New York-based pianist, composer Kris Davis presents a musical journey that may be akin to navigating through a dense forest via snaking trails, rolling hills and dusky caves. With a first-class supporting cast , the pianist's comprehensive works emphasize her luminous imaginative powers. Several movements are fashioned with cascading horns passages, supple deviations and variable ...
Bassist/Composer Robert Sabin's "Humanity Part II" To Be Released By Ranula Music July 14
For his bewitching new album Humanity Part II, bassist, composer, and film music aficionado Robert Sabin assembled a brass-heavy tentet in service of a dark, glacial, cinematic sound. The CD, Sabin’s third in ten years, will be released on his Ranula Music label July 14. “I love the way film music invokes states of mind that ...
Hu Vibrational: The Epic Botanical Beat Suite
by John Ephland
Uniquely atmospheric, this music evokes both the mysterious jungle as well as what it might be like to listen in space, outer space. Hu Vibrational Presents The Epic Botanical Beat Suite points to both the inner as well as outer journey. All of it exquisitely tethered by the Beat, or beats, beats that float in and ...
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at The Space at Westbury
by Mike Perciaccante
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with special guests The Pimps of Joytime The Space at Westbury Westbury, NY June 12, 2015 The new, young ambassador of the New Orleans sound stormed the stage at Westbury, NY's The Space on Friday, June 12. Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews is a ...
Tim Kuhl Releases Album & Show
Digital Release: June 30 Vinyl Release: First week of August, 2015 Flying Moonlight Records is pleased to announce the release of 1982, Tim Kuhl’s follow-up effort to 2012’s critically acclaimed St. Helena. 1982 is a darker, electronic effort, concepted and composed on an iPad while touring the world playing drums for Sean Lennon’s The ...
Moon Hooch at Shakespeare's Pub
by John Ephland
Moon Hooch Shakespeare's Pub Kalamazoo, Michigan May 29, 2015 It was an interesting combination. Two saxophones and a drummer, along with a sound system that kept everyone on their feet, if not dancing. The up-and-coming New York aspirants Moon Hooch (previously touring with They Might Be Giants, Lotus and Galactic), on ...
Jazz Journalists Association Honors Its Own: Chicago Writer-Broadcaster Neil Tesser Wins 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award
NEW YORK CITY – Neil Tesser, a Chicago-based jazz journalist, broadcaster, author, educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and current board member of the Jazz Journalists Association, was honored with the JJA's 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award on Tuesday, June 16 at a ...
Ray Anderson's Organic Quartet: Being the Point
by Stefano Merighi
Un suono scuro, profondo, indeterminato nelle intenzioni, trova improvvisamente la luce del calypso. Una luce che spinge la musica verso una danza sinuosa, scattante. È l'inizio di Being the Point, disco che riporta Ray Anderson alle sue passioni per il blues, per New Orleans, per i ritmi obliqui già frequentati all'epoca di Slickaphonics. ...
Michael Feinberg's Humblebrag: Live at 800 East
by Angelo Leonardi
Nato ad Atlanta ma stabilitosi a New York nel 2009, il bassista e compositore Michael Feinberg è uno dei migliori jazzmen emergenti del decennio. Poco più che 25enne ha già inciso alcuni dischi a suo nome, tra cui spicca l'Elvin Jones Project, registrato nel 2012 per la Sunnyside con la presenza di nomi illustri quali Billy ...
Erik Friedlander: Illuminations
by AAJ Staff
Questa suite per solo violoncello è stata commissionata al violoncellista Erik Friedlander dal Jewish Museum di New York City nell'occasione di una mostra di libri antichi e manoscritti. L'ispirazione -che lo stesso Friedlander ha sottolineato essere legata alla pratica e alla pazienza, con una connotazione quasi rituale -ha prodotto una musica di grande intimità e delicatezza. ...
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