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Rob Reddy: Bechet: Our Contemporary
by Alberto Bazzurro
Omaggiando Bechet ma attraverso una lente in più frangenti memore della lezione mingusiana, oltre che attenta a esperienze decisamente più contemporanee, attorniato da un organico di primo piano, il quarantanovenne sopranista, compositore (suo metà del materiale tematico del disco) e arrangiatore (tutto il resto, ovviamente griffato Bechet) newyorchese Rob Reddy firma un lavoro capace di emanciparsi ...
"Essentially Ella" Lina Orfanos New Release At Metropolitan Room December 6, 13 & 26
Lina Orfanos's Essentially Ella out on December 12 Metropolitan Room Performances December 6, December 13 and December 26 Featuring: John Benitez, Essiet Essiet, Spiros Exaras & More! About Essentially Ella The sublime new CD by Lina Orfanos and her New York City Jazz crew hits the streets on December 12! An exciting homage to ...
Jerald Miller, Managing Director Of The Nu Jazz Agency Named One Of The Top 30 Influencers In The Performing Arts Industry By Musical America Magazine
Musical America Worldwide, the 118 year old performing arts magazine, named Jerald Miller, Managing Director of the Nu Jazz Agency, as the first Jazz business professional inaugurated into their annual list of Professionals of The Year, covering 1015’s category Arts Influencers. This year’s category, “Influencers”, highlights those professionals who have demonstrated an exceptional ability to tangibly ...
Darius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)
by Alberto Bazzurro
La Brigitte del titolo è Brigitte Fontaine, artista “totale" (cantante, poetessa e altro ancora) francese, oggi settantaseienne, che fra le tante esternazioni del suo talento nel 1970 registrò un album, Comme à la radio, con l'Art Ensemble of Chicago. A lei il trentasettenne altoista Darius Jones, nativo della Virginia, dedica questo suo nuovo lavoro, per il ...
Steve Colson: Tones For
by Giuseppe Segala
Esponente della seconda onda generazionale dell'AACM e insieme a Chico Freeman pupillo di Fred Anderson e allievo di Muhal Richard Abrams, il pianista Steve Colson, detto Adegoke dal nome yoruba corrispettivo di Steven, riflette nel proprio approccio stilistico la varietà a tutto campo metabolizzata in uno scenario coerente, come è tipico di quella scuola. Radici blues ...
Katie Bull: All Hot Bodies Radiate
by Alberto Bazzurro
Quinto album per la cantante e autrice newyorchese Katie Bull, le cui coordinate espressive spaziano da una vocalità jazz non eccessivamente ortodossa a infiltrazioni di matrice contemporaneo-colta (quella sorta di recitarcantando che segna quasi tutte le sue sortite), senza eludere del tutto refoli di ascendenza per così dire prog-song. L'interlocutore privilegiato della voce, ...
Matthew Shipp Trio: The Conduct of Jazz
by John Sharpe
A glance at pianist Matthew Shipp's discography reveals that small group work has long been a focus. Indeed in recent times one of the prime outlets for his artistry is his classic piano trio, which ranks among the pre-eminent outfits in modern jazz. The Conduct Of Jazz represents Shipp's twelfth release in the format. Although there ...
Tony Bennett at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury
by Mike Perciaccante
Tony Bennett NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY November 20, 2015 At 89-years of age, Tony Bennett has seen and done it all. He also is the owner of one of the most distinctive voices in all of music. In fact, it has been documented that Frank Sinatra ...
Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart
by Dave Wayne
Leading a quintet whose debut recording, Be Still (Greenleaf Music, 2012) was an elegiac song cycle dedicated to his late mother, Dave Douglas' Brazen Heart, sadly, finds the trumpeter / composer in mourning once again. Damon Douglas, Dave's brother, passed away in June 2015. Yet, the overall tenor of Brazen Heart is completely different than Be ...
Joe McPhee / Jamie Saft / Joe Morris / Charles Downs: Ticonderoga
by Glenn Astarita
The premise for this get together commenced with discussions by pianist Jamie Saft and bassist, guitarist Joe Morris who plotted to meld their influences from John Coltrane's Live at the Village Vanguard Again (Impulse, 1966) album, along with celebrated artists, trumpeter, reedman Joe McPhee and drummer Charles Downs. Moreover, the band moniker Ticonderoga is a Mohawk ...
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