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Simon Hanes: Gargantua

Read "Gargantua" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 25, 2026

Tre batterie, tre bassi elettrici, tre tromboni, tre corni francesi e tre voci, questo l'ensemble che mette in scena Gargantua, album proveniente dalla sempre più benemerita Pyroclastic Records. Inusuale, sorprendente, bizzarra strumentazione? Niente affatto, se in cabina di regia siede Simon Hanes, visionario artista, californiano di nascita ma residente a Brooklyn, che miscela le più disparate ...

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Yvonne Rogers: The Button Jar

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by Vincenzo Roggero
May 11, 2026

Ecco una giovane musicista da seguire attentamente, molto attentamente. Perché il suo debutto in piano solo, fortemente sollecitato dalla mentore e pianista Kris Davis, è di quelli che non possono passare inosservati. Ancora giovanissima,Yvonne Rogers, ventisettenne del Maine, vanta una ragguardevole lista di riconoscimenti e di frequentazioni eccellenti--il sestetto Lilith di Ingrid Laubrock, il quartetto Elephant di ...

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Yvonne Rogers: The Button Jar

Read "The Button Jar" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 1, 2026

It should not be as hard as it is to pinpoint the beauty of pianist/composer Yvonne Roger's sublime piano, but it is. You listen to “Little Dance" from the intimate and intricate calligraphy of her Kris Davis produced The Button Jar and say to yourself “There it is!" Then, the next track, “Thread the Needle," enters ...

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Kris Davis: The Solastalgia Suite

Read "The Solastalgia Suite" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 28, 2026

For her first excursion into string quartet writing, Canadian pianist Kris Davis shapes a restless interplay of atmospheric texture and rhythmic urgency on The Solastalgia Suite. The title takes its cue from philosopher Glenn Albrecht's term for mourning environmental loss, a concept that resonates throughout the work's uneasy lyricism. Commissioned by the Jazztopad Festival in Wrocław ...

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An Invitation to Disappear

March 24, 2026

Album: The Solastalgia Suite
By Kris Davis
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 5:46

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Brandon Seabrook: Hellbent Daydream

Read "Hellbent Daydream" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 23, 2026

Avevamo lasciato Brandon Seabrook alle prese con le chitarre vintage nel notevole Object of Unknown Function, lo ritroviamo in quartetto (tre cordofoni, un pianoforte/sintetizzatore, l'assenza vistosa di batteria e strumento a fiato) nell'altrettanto notevole Hellbent Daydream, sempre per Pyroclastic Records. Nuovo quartetto dunque quello di Seabrook ma medesima tensione verso un mondo musicale spiazzante, distorto, sovversivo ...

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Brandon Seabrook: Hellbent Daydream

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by Glenn Astarita
February 20, 2026

Brandon Seabrook's Hellbent Daydream arrives as a bold, surreal dispatch from the mind of one of New York's most restlessly inventive guitarists and banjoists. Long known for fusing punk rock energy, jazz improvisation, pop sensibilities and metal intensity, Seabrook assembles a striking drummer-less quartet here: Elias Stemeseder on piano and synthesizers, Henry Fraser on bass and ...

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2025 Year in Review by the Numbers: The Magnificent Seven and the Pluralism of Taste

by Marek J. Śmietański
February 17, 2026

My Journey From Sports Analytics to Counting Jazz I've always had a soft spot for statistics and rankings--especially those that try to say something more than just “what people like." This is probably a result of my rigorous mathematical-informatics education and the scientific research I conducted over a dozen years ago on classification and ranking methods ...

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Kris Davis: The Solastalgia Suite

Read "The Solastalgia Suite" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
February 4, 2026

Pianist/composer/raconteur Kris Davis dazzles again with The Solastalgia Suite, her headfirst dive into third stream composition. Echoing Ravel's harmonic conversations and guided by the environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who describes his concept of solastalgia as a form of homesickness while we are still at home, Davis and Poland's revered Lutosławski Quartet, named for twentieth-century ...