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Sara Serpa, André Matos: All the Dreams
by Alberto Bazzurro
Elegante, delicato, gradevole, ma anche edulcorato, epidermico, plastificato, sostanzialmente vacuo, oltre che veramente troppo ripetitivo: questo il ritratto che ci sentiremmo di trasmettere del secondo lavoro del duo portoghese composto da Sara Serpa, cantante (ma qui anche più o meno occasionale tastierista), già nota per opere in proprio e accanto a Ran Blake, soprattutto, e André ...
Jazz Quanta Vocals: Carol Bach-y-Rita, Sara Serpa, Alyssa Allgood, Gina Sicilia, Ilse Huizinga
by C. Michael Bailey
Carol Bach-y-Rita minha casa / my house Self Produced 2016 Polyglot exotic Carol Bach-y-Rita released her conspicuous debut, What Love Is in 2009. Since then, she has kept busy performing, taking her sweet time in developing her new project, the self-produced Minha Casa / My House. Her selected ...
Greg Osby: Saxophone “Griot”
by Victor L. Schermer
The griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician, a repository of oral tradition who is often seen as a societal leader. Saxophonist Greg Osby recently was excited to meet some griots on his travels. While he is originally from St. Louis, he himself is a griot in many senses of the ...
Inner Circle Music: Creativity and Community Spirit
by Jakob Baekgaard
The music industry today is defined by a strange paradox: there are too few labels and too many. On the one hand, the major labels have merged and sign less jazz artists, meaning the dream of a company with plenty of promotional muscles becomes harder to achieve. On the other hand, more and more musicians have ...
Gli ottant’anni di Ran Blake
by Alberto Bazzurro
Alla non banale soglia degli ottant'anni, compiuti lo scorso 20 aprile, Ran Blake se ne esce con tre nuovi lavori che in parte ribadiscono concetti già noti (almeno nei suoi percorsi più recenti) e in parte ne insinuano di meno battuti. Ran Blake Ghost Tones: Portraits of George Russell ...
Ran Blake: Ghost Tones: Portraits of George Russell
by Dan McClenaghan
At eighty years of age, pianist Ran Blake has shaped an impressive and multifaceted legacy: four decades of mentoring students at the New England Conservatory; helping shape a new genre of music, Third Stream, the marriage of the jazz and classical worlds; his teaming with the lady vocalists--Jeanne Lee, Christine Correa, Sara Serpa, Dominque Eade; numerous ...
Robert Bush Best of 2014
by Robert Bush
2014 proved a banner year for jazz recordings. Still, two of my favorite discs this year came in the form of previously unreleased material--the Jarrett Trio and Coltrane Quintet cannot be overlooked, in my opinion. Wadada Leo Smith The Great Lakes Suites (Tum Records) Keith Jarrett, ...
Matthew Sheens: Untranslatable
by Ian Patterson
With his impressive debut Every Eight Seconds (Self Produced, 2012) garnering universally positive reviews, Australian-born, New York-based pianist Matthew Sheens returns with an even meatier, juicier follow-up. Every Eight Seconds introduced an original composer, one whose melodic and rhythmic ideas championed narrative over virtuosity. There's perhaps more of Sheens the Downbeat poll-winning pianist this time out ...
Sara Serpa & André Matos: Primavera
by Robert Bush
Although there are (mostly) just two musicians on Primavera, the first recorded collaboration between Portuguese songbird Sara Serpa and guitarist Andre Matos--one couldn't ask for a more sonically lustrous offering. That's partially due to the result of judiciously applied multitracking, and to the intricate melodic sense of both musicians. There is nary an extra note or ...
Sara Serpa & André Matos: Primavera
by Mark Corroto
A little bit of magic is evident in the recording Primavera by the Portuguese-born-now-New Yorkers Sara Serpa and André Matos. Not magic as in sleight of hand or illusion, but magical as in enchanting and, indeed, spellbinding. The musical pair, also wife and husband, created this duo recording with the help of some of their own ...


