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Shuhei Kokuryo: First Episode
by Jim Olin
For a debut album, First Episode displays a remarkable amount of self-confidence and inventiveness from its creator. Shuhei Kokuryo is an accomplished jazz saxophonist from Nagoya City, Japan. Heavily inspired by Charlie Parker, First Episode was written and recorded in New York wherein Kokuryo had his skills sharpened by Seamus Blake, who even co-wrote ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019
by John Kelman
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27 -July 1, 2019 Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...
Tommy Halferty & Norma Winstone: Tommy Halferty Invites Norma Winstone
by Ian Patterson
Though the collaboration between Irish guitarist Tommy Halferty and English singer Norma Winstone goes back twenty five years, this, surprisingly, is the duo's debut recording. That it came about at all is thanks to the lever pulling of Irish jazz impresario Allen Smith, who first brought Winstone across the pond in the early 1990s. Winstone and ...
Seamus Blake & Terzetto Abusivo
by Neri Pollastri
Seamus Blake e Terzetto Abusivo Dietro Le Quinte Le Sieci (Firenze) 22.4.2019 Nel corso di un tour “pasquale" attraverso l'Italia, è approdato anche in prossimità di Firenze il tenorsassofonista Seamus Blake con il Terzetto Abusivo, ovvero il pianista Alfonso Santimone, il contrabbassista Danilo Gallo e il ...
Bridges With Seamus Blake: Continuum
by Roger Farbey
The follow-up to Bridges' eponymous debut album (AMP Music & Records, 2016) is no less spectacular an affair. It sports the same line-up as before with the exception of Jesper Bodilsen now taking over bass duties from Ole Morten Vågan. Once again Seamus Blake leads this group of Norway-based musicians to great success. Not a lot ...
Philipp Schiepek: Golem Dance
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Melodic ease, harmonic subtlety and an intriguingly dispersed approach to compositional structure make up the winning trinity of this enjoyable debut recording by German guitarist and composer Philipp Schiepek. Most impressively, these aspects belong to the qualities one would expect a 24-year young jazz guitarist to have mastered the least at this point in their career. ...
Scopes: Scopes
by Roger Farbey
Formed in 2018, Scopes comprises a group of musicians hailing from four different European countries, led by Austrian drummer Mathias Ruppnig and German bassist Tom Berkmann. Coincidentally, both leaders have collaborated with Kurt Rosenwinkel and John Hollenbeck. Ruppnig studied or participated in workshops with big jazz names including Kendrick Scott, Peter Erskine, Jimmy Cobb, John Abercrombie, ...
Seamus Blake: Guardians Of The Heart Machine
by Roger Farbey
Seamus Blake was born in 1970 in London, England but raised in Vancouver, Canada. He studied jazz at Berklee College of Music and following his graduation moved to New York Cit, where he became a fixture on the jazz scene including being a member of the Mingus Big Band. He's played or recorded with Victor Lewis, ...
Misha Tsiganov: Playing With The Wind
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Misha Tsiganov seems to further his creative reach with each date he delivers. While calculation and supreme specificity with the pen always help to keep things grounded in his music, the level of daring in Tsiganov's compositions and the high degree of spontaneity he brings to the fore through his piano help to continually push ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Marilyn Mazur, Echoes of Zoo and More
by Ludovico Granvassu
New releases keep coming at an exciting place and Mondo Jazz obliges, sharing tons of exicting new releases, in particular celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and its spiritual offspring as well as some great European projects. Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 ...
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