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Michael Janisch: The Whirlwind, Paradigm Shift and London's Label of the Moment
by Phil Barnes
However you look at it Michael Janisch is an extraordinarily driven, highly motivated, success story. Not only has he been the founder, owner and force behind London's wonderful Whirlwind Recordings for the last five years, but he has also just released one of 2015's finest albums in the adventurous 2CD set Paradigm Shift. It's no coincidence ...
Giancarlo Tossani Synapser + Ralph Alessi: Newswok
by Vincenzo Roggero
Terzo episodio di un'avventurosa ricerca musicale chiamata Synapser, Newswok ha tutte le carte in regola per timbrare a fuoco con il marchio della qualità più sofisticata il quartetto del pianista e compositore Giancarlo Tossani. Non solo per la presenza tutt'altro che accessoria del talento di Ralph Alessi, non solo perché Auand è etichetta che ha sostenuto ...
Michael Cain: Sola
by Karl Ackermann
In his long and well-established career, keyboardist/composer Michael Cain has often flown under the radar. Dating back to 1991, Cain was part of the bassist Anthony Cox's impressive quartet which included saxophonist Dewey Redman drummer Billy Higgins in its initial formation. His fine piano trio outing Circa (ECM, 1997) with trumpeter Ralph Alessi and saxophonist Peter ...
Scott Colley: Staying In The Moment
by Mark Sullivan
Bassist Scott Colley was involved in three of the most well attended performances at the 2015 Detroit Jazz Festival: the Pat Metheny Trio with guest Kenny Garrett on opening night; the Pat Metheny/Gary Burton Quartet Reunion on Saturday night; and the grand closing performance featuring the North American premiere of Pat Metheny's “Hommage" to Eberhard Weber ...
Alberto Cavenati: Lo spazio ai margini
by Neri Pollastri
Lavoro di sensibilità centroeuropea, questo CD a firma del chitarrista Alberto Cavenati vede in scena un quintetto di ottimi musicisti nostrani, arricchiti dalla presenza della tromba di Ralph Alessi. Già il titolo dell'album e quello della traccia di apertura danno un'idea del progetto musicale: una ricerca sonora aperta, basata su strutture non standardizzate ...
Lena Hovanesian: irwinorange
by Dan McClenaghan
In assigning colors to a musician's “sound," does alto saxophonist Lena Hovanesian blow orange? Maybe. On her debut CD, irwinorange, the title taken from the 2014 Franklin Evans' painting of the same name, Hovanesian's alto has a citrus-y tang, as she explores, sonically, her love of abstract art and natural beauty of Hawaii and her native ...
Giancarlo Tossani Synapser + Alessi: Newswok
by Dave Wayne
Wonders never cease. When Newswok first arrived in the mail, my first question was not “What the hell does 'Newswok' mean?" It was “Who is Giancarlo Tossani, and why is Ralph Alessi playing with him?" I was also alarmed that I had never heard of the record label, Auand Records, before. This despite the fact that ...
Yoosun Nam: Light Of the City
by Ian Patterson
It's a love story in essence: South Korean classical piano and vocal protégé with multiple competition wins, hears jazz in high school; picks up saxophone at nineteen and swaps university computer studies for music; then, as straight and true as Cupid's arrow, heads for Berklee College of Music; New York and a Master's degree in jazz ...
Fred Hersch: My Coma Dreams
by Alberto Bazzurro
Fred Hersch, Herschel GarfeinMy Coma Dreams Palmetto Records* * * ½ L'antefatto è il seguente: nel 2008 Fred Hersch, com'è noto da tempo affetto da AIDS, è stato colpito da una grave forma di polmonite, per cui i medici hanno deciso di porlo in uno stato di coma indotto in ...
A dialogo con Alessandro Lanzoni
by Neri Pollastri
Classe 1992, Alessandro Lanzoni ha già alle spalle un percorso artistico di tutto rispetto, collaborazioni con artisti di primo piano (giovanissimo, aveva già registrato con Lee Konitz) e riconoscimenti importanti (lo scorso anno ha vinto il referendum di Musica Jazz come miglior nuovo talento italiano). Dopo averlo seguito in varie occasioni fin da quando ...
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