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Gebhard Ullmann: The Big Band Project
by Rex Butters
Brooklyn/Berlin resident Gebhard Ullmann takes time off from his seven working ensembles to run six of his compositions through the venerable NDR Big Band. With heavyweights like Satoko Fujii, Andy Emler, Chris Dahlgren, and Guenter Lenz handling the arranging chores, the band roils and boils, simmers and sighs. The Fujii-arranged “Think Tank" churns in ...
Tchicai/Fewell/Della Porta/Tracanna/Manzi: Big Chief Dreaming
by Dennis Hollingsworth
Big Chief Dreaming is a collaborative effort of international musicians from the US, France, and Italy. Danish reedman John Tchicai, often associated with avant-garde pursuits, joins a bit more traditional quartet consisting of Bostonian guitarist Garrison Fewell and Italians Tino Tracanna (saxophones), Paolino Dalla Porta (bass), and Massimo Manzi (drums). Fewell has longstanding associations with Tracanna ...
Tchicai/Fewell/Tracanna/Dalla Porta/Manzi: Big Chief Dreaming
by Jerry D'Souza
In an interesting note in the liner booklet for Big Chief Dreaming, guitarist Garrison Fewell says that the band dwelt on the role that inspiration and exploration played in shaping artistic vision. That question is answered in the path they took, or to put it more accurately, the paths. Explorations of the written note and improvisations ...
Tchicai/Fewell/Tracanna/Dalla Porta/Manzi: Big Chief Dreaming
by John Kelman
Much continues to be written about the global reach of jazz. Vibrant jazz scenes are scattered around the world in what might have been considered unlikely locations in years past, like Slovenia, the Ukraine, and Scandinavia. While each region brings its own cultural viewpoint into play, some of the most intriguing music happens when artists from ...
Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-In
by Jack Bowers
Here's a tight, swinging album by a group of world-class musicians who are all but unknown here in the States. Pianist Roberto Magris, from Trieste, Italy, is the leader, and his quintet, Europlane, is so named because its members hail from four European countries. The front line consists of tenor/soprano saxophonists Tony Lakatos (Hungary) and Michael ...
Roberto Magris: Check-in
by Dennis Hollingsworth
Roberto Magris is well-known in his native Italy and has been leading different versions of the group Europlane for a number of years. For this set, Check-In, he chose a quintet with two saxophones. Tony Lakatos, an excellent Hungarian musician some may recognize, is half of the two-horn front line. Like many other recent recordings from ...
Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in
by C. Michael Bailey
Roberto Magris's Check-in began its life as a self-produced recording reviewed earlier in these pages. Now with a new label sponsorship and distribution, this fine recording may find its larger audience. Magris is a pianist born in Trieste, Italy in 1959. Beginning his professional career in the late '70s, Magris went on to front several notable ...
Greg Burk Quartet: Carpe Momentum
by Budd Kopman
I was hooked on Greg Burk's Carpe Momentum from the first seconds of the first cut. Burk has in himself, and strives to bring out in his sidemen, that which I consider one of the highest achievement in jazz: the ability to be rhythmically free, while all the time maintaining audible contact with the prevailing pulse, ...
