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Patricia Brennan: Breaking Stretch
by Dan McClenaghan
On her first two albums, vibraphonist Patricia Brennan worked with a quartet comprised of three percussion instruments, herself on vibes and marimba, joined by percussionist Mauricio Herrera and drummer Marcus Gilmore, with a bassist Kim Cass. Momentum in large part, is the name of the game. For Breaking Stretch she expands her musical universe, adding trumpeter ...
Patricia Brennan: Breaking Stretch
by Mike Jurkovic
Wild-willed vibraphonist Patricia Brennan gets straight down to business without any fanciful mission declaration with the Afro-Cuban, effusively powered, clear-the-dancefloor and blow-the-ceiling-off this joint “Los Otros Yo (The Other Selves)," the opening cut of her third album Breaking Stretch. She does so in a captivatingly, wickedly good way. Brennan--who has added much vitality to ...
Ascender
Album: Ascending Primes
By Joshua Modney
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 7:49
A Night for Counting Stars
Album: Bird's Eye
By David Leon
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 8:36
Ches Smith: Laugh Ash
by Glenn Astarita
Ches Smith's Laugh Ash is not your garden-variety jazz concoction. Instead, it is a genre-defying, shape-twisting auditory escapade that does not just push the envelope--it sends it soaring into the stratosphere. It is both bewildering and bedazzling. These compositions stand as a towering testament to Smith's impressive acumen as a drummer, percussionist, and composer, a veritable ...
Mark Dresser: Tines of Change
by Neri Pollastri
Musicista poliedrico e aperto, ma anche grande ricercatore sul proprio strumento, Mark Dresser non è nuovo alla documentazione del proprio lavoro in solitudine sul contrabbasso, svolto anche con la collaborazione del suo artigiano di riferimento --Kent McLagan --che dal 2000 continua a sviluppare per lui soluzioni innovative atte a sfruttare le molteplici possibilità sonore dello strumento.
Ches Smith: Laugh Ash
by Vic Albani
Dopo lo straordinario lavoro dedicato al Vudù haitiano del 2021 (Path of Seven Colors) anch'esso uscito per la straordinaria Pyroclastic Records di Kris Davis, il batterista, percussionista e compositore Ches Smith, acclamato dal New York Times come “uno dei batteristi più dinamici della scena sperimentale del pianeta," colpisce ancora con un nuovo sorprendente lavoro immensamente variegato, ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023
by Ludovico Granvassu
If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...
The Last Quiet Place
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Anticipation; Grammy Season; The Last Quiet Place; Delusions; Afterglow; Chant II.
