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Article: Live Review

Martin Wind Quartet at Kitano

by Victor L. Schermer
June 4, 2014

Martin Wind Quartet Jazz at Kitano New York, NY May 31, 2014 It was a clear, warm late spring evening in Manhattan, and Jazz at Kitano, by now a familiar part of the New York nightclub scene, provided a perfect setting for a CD release event, a place with great ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 2, 2014

Questo splendido lavoro vede due protagonisti dell'avanguardia attuale (il pianista Matthew Shipp e il batterista Jeff Cosgrove) in libero confronto collettivo assieme al contrabbassista William Parker, concreta connessione con le rivoluzioni musicali degli anni sessanta. In particolare due eminenti figure di quella stagione si pongono come ideali riferenti per questa musica e sono i ...

Article: Live Review

Mai Jazz 2014

by John Kelman
May 24, 2014

Mai Jazz 2014 Stavanger, Norway May 6-11, 2014 After visiting Norway as often as four or five times annually, a first trip to the country in early May is surprisingly late for a first visit of the year. The last time visiting the west coast city of Stavanger was in 2008, part ...

Article: Album Review

Joel Harrison: Mother Stump

Read "Mother Stump" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 16, 2014

Guitarist and composer Joel Harrison is well-known for creative cross-cultural collaborations and unique arrangements of works by influential musicians like George Harrison and Paul Motian. A magnanimous bandleader, Harrison rarely dominates his own recording projects, typically soloing with lyrical economy in lieu of pyrotechnic excess. Mother Stump focuses on this underplayed aspect of Harrison's abilities, spotlighting ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 13, 2014

The recipe for this album could be detailed as such: start with one inventive drummer, add two interconnected masters of wholly improvised music, throw a composition from Paul Motian into the pot, and let it all stir itself. Drummer Jeff Cosgrove's fascination with the music of Motian isn't a secret. As the man ...

Article: Album Review

Billy Hart Quartet: One is the Other

Read "One is the Other" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
May 7, 2014

One Is the Other è il secondo CD realizzato dal leggendario Billy Hart per la ECM di Manfred Eicher che, come sua buona abitudine, ha prodotto anche questo lavoro del batterista di Washington dopo il già fortunato All Our Reasons, uscito nel 2012 con la stessa formazione. Un quartetto di vere “all stars" contemporanee quali il ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2014

by John Kelman
May 5, 2014

Jazzkaar 2014 Tallinn, Estonia April 16-28, 2014 Any opportunity to return to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia in Eastern Europe, is one worth grabbing. Beyond the somewhat surreal feeling of being in a country that, just 23 years ago, was a completely different place, Tallinn is, quite simply, one of the most ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Cardenas: Melody in a Dream

Read "Melody in a Dream" reviewed by Gabriel Medina Arenas

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
April 2, 2014

Melody in a Dream is a humble tribute to Steve Cardenas' mentors and music heroes. The Kansas City guitarist who moved to New York City in 1995 pays his respects to figures like late piano genius Thelonius Monk, avant-garde drummer Joey Baron(who is his sideman in this album), the deceased drummer Paul Motian and pianist Horace ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Andrea Massaria

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 2, 2014

01. Alva Noto--Ryuichi Sakamoto--Vrioon (Raster Norton-2002). Disco bellissimo, lo ascolto spesso, è ricco di idee interessanti e l'uso delle pause è esemplare.... 02. Paul Bley--Open to Love (ECM-1973). Non ha bisogno di commenti... 03. Steve Reich--Music for Eighteen Musicians (Nonesuch-1976). Traggo molte ispirazioni dai minimalisti ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: Betzidei Drachim [Roadsides]

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 31, 2014

Israeli, Canada-based vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb attempts in her fourth solo album to portray a possible peaceful vision of the Middle-East through a wise arrangement of Israeli and Palestinian poetry. These poems, all sung in Hebrew (and all translated to English) suggest that behind the conflict, contrasting historical, political and even cultural narratives live people who ...