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Gordon Grdina's Haram: Her Eyes Illuminate
by Dan Bilawsky
Vancouver-based oudist/guitarist Gordon Grdina has been bending genres and creating East-meets-West contexts for his instruments for quite some time. He put his own spin on modern jazz with Box Cutter, melded outré twentieth century chamber ideals with Arabian themes with the East Van Trio and created a Persian/Arabian/Indian hybrid with Sangha. Now, Grdina turns his attention ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer Harris Eisenstadt has gained steam on the progressive jazz front, largely due to his complex and harmonically variant compositions amid glittering support from like-minded musicians who often lead solo careers as well. His Canada Day band reemerges with a strong program, seeded in multidimensional jazz-tinged spinoffs, featuring free form segments, intricately executed structural components and ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III
by Mark Corroto
Harris Eisenstadt's Canada Day quintet is evidence that an ensemble can be both disciplined and chaotic. With Canada Day III, the drummer/composer presents eight original pieces that, but for his talented sidemen, probably could not exist elsewhere.As with his previous quintet dates, Canada Day (Clean Feed, 2009) and Canada Day II (Songlines, 2011) Eisenstadt's ...
Francois Houle 5 + 1: Genera
by Glenn Astarita
Celebrated Canadian progressive jazz clarinetist Francois Houle enlists an all-star support system for a comprehensive album that radiates numerous slants amid ethereal backwashes, scrappy improvisation and softly explorative passages. “Albatros" highlights the sextet's manifold capabilities. Propagated by Houle's buoyantly lilting stride, the band generates a deceptively complex primary theme based on odd-metered unison phrasings, spanning free-bop ...
Danny Fox Trio: The One Constant
by AAJ Italy Staff
Potremmo definire The One Costant album delle assenze. Dodici brani per un totale di quasi settanta minuti e, incredibile a dirsi, nemmeno l'ombra di uno standard, tanto più con una formazione, il piano trio, che spesso sugli standard ha costruito le proprie fortune. Così come manca un omaggio o un tributo più o meno esplicito a ...
Gordon Grdina's East Van Strings: The Breathing of Statues
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lanciato da Gary Peacock, insieme al quale (e a Paul Motian) ha realizzato un disco in trio, Think Like the Waves, il chitarrista e suonatore di oud Gordon Grdina è qui alla guida di un quartetto nel quale è accompagnato da un trio d'archi, formazione inconsueta anche se non del tutto originale (basti ricordare il quartetto ...
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Album: New Dream
By The October Trio
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2012
Duration: 06:16
The October Trio: New Dream
by Glenn Astarita
In recent times, Vancouver, Canada has produced a hotbed of jazz-centric talent, outlined by an improvisational superstructure of sorts. On New Dream, The October Trio conveys a resourceful melding of various musical inflections amid a great degree of flexibility and moxie, featuring a wily sequence of events where each member plays a significant role.
Benoît Delbecq: Circles and Calligrams
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il pianoforte come laboratorio timbrico. L'idea in sé non è nuova, ma in campo jazzistico non è stata molto investigata e consente di tenere a distanza l'opzione soltanto muscolare verso lo strumento. Benoît Delbecq è artista intelligente, da anni alle prese con lo studio delle possibilità di estendere la funzione dialogica del piano preparato. Una funzione ...
Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz: The Point of It All
by AAJ Italy Staff
In questi tempi tormentati e dilaniati, solo i poeti sanno indicare il cammino. E Robin Holcomb è una poetessa coi controfiocchi e ovviamente non sbaglia questa ennesima rarefatta occasione. Sono con lei il marito tastierista Wayne Horvitz e un manipolo di eccellenti musicisti canadesi che oscillano operativamente fra Vancouver e Seattle, certamente uno degli snodi geografici ...
