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Phil Haynes’ “No Fast Food” Trio: In Concert (2014)

by Victor L. Schermer
September 5, 2014

A jazz trio called “No Fast Food" is more likely to appeal to a sophisticated audience rather than attract the legion of average jazz fans, and this album will no doubt appeal to just such serious listeners who will take the time to digest it. Phil Haynes, Dave Liebman, and Drew Gress are seasoned players, all ...

Article: Album Review

Tal Gur: Under Contractions

Read "Under Contractions" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 4, 2014

Uncertainty, synchronicity, discombobulation, frustration, and fragility all come to the surface on Under Contractions--the third album from Israeli-born, New York-based saxophonist Tal Gur. Gur--a practicing music therapist--has a way of coaxing emotions out of his instrument(s), turning his own work into a form of self-examination. It's true that autobiography has a place in ...

Article: Album Review

Christian Vuust: Urban Hymn

Read "Urban Hymn" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 31, 2014

Multi-reedist/composer Christian Vuust has been a mainstay of the Danish jazz scene for close to thirty years. A professor at the Royal Academy of Music in his hometown of Aarhus, Vuust has crafted a significant discography as leader, working with some of Denmark's best jazz musicians. Urban Hyms marks a departure for Vuust, being his first ...

Song of the Day

Joe

August 31, 2014

Album: Bounce Trio
By Matthieu Marthouret
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 2:45

Song of the Day

I Can Depend

August 30, 2014

Album: Focus
By D-Lucca
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 6:06

Article: Album Review

Matthieu Marthouret Bounce Trio: Small Streams...Big Rivers

Read "Small Streams...Big Rivers" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 29, 2014

Grenoble-born keyboardist Matthieu Marthouret started playing the Hammond organ as a way of covering for bass players' absence from rehearsals. It became one of his favorite instruments, leading to the formation of the Matthieu Marthouret Organ Quartet in 2007 and then to the establishment of the Bounce Trio. Small Streams...Big Rivers is the first album from ...

Article: Album Review

XY Quartet: XY

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 29, 2014

A due anni di distanza dall'ottimo debutto, arriva il nuovo album dell'XY Quartet, realizzato grazie ad una campagna di crowdfunding, operazione in piena sintonia con la filosofia del gruppo, tra i primi in Italia ad avere una piattaforma condivisa di partiture, ascolti musicali, descrizione dei brani. Ed ecco un lavoro che conferma a pieno le qualità ...

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Fabio Delvò: Rastplatz

Read "Rastplatz" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 27, 2014

Il sassofonista Fabio Delvò ha già lasciato più di una interessante testimonianza della sua arte dapprima con la militanza nella Flight Band di Biagio Coppa successivamente con i suoi progetti da leader (il disco DNA del 2012), e co-leader (il recente Differential Equations con il chitarrista americano Jeff Platz). Questo Rastplatz -area di sosta lungo le ...