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Martial Solal Trio: Balade du 10 Mars
by Robert Spencer
Martial Solal has always been a remarkable pinaist, both in his work with Lee Konitz and others and in his own right. This recording is no different: it contains Solal playing, with a trio, a program of (mostly) standards, but with anything but a standard sensibility. He continually finds new ways to breathe life into them. ...
Glenn Horiuchi Unit (A): FAIR PLAY
by AAJ Staff
This recording was exceptionally challenging to review. Although I’ve been aware of composer/improviser/pianist Glenn Horiuchi for some time, I must confess that this recording is my first opportunity to have actually heard his music. An additional difficulty in reviewing FAIR PLAY exists in the fact that this recording appears to have been a transitional one for ...
Steve Lacy + 6: The Cry
by Robert Spencer
Steve Lacy, the great master of the soprano saxophone and one of the unacknowledged greatest improvisers ever, continues a long series of art songs and settings of poetry in this new 2-disc set from Soul Note, the always challenging Italian label. Stretching back to the Sixties Lacy and vocalist Irene Aebi have recorded songs by lyricists ...
Steve Lacy +6: The Cry
by AAJ Staff
Having established his reputation as an insightful interpreter of Monk in the late '50s and early '60s, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy drew political attention with his 1973 anti-Vietnam suite The Woe. Adding to his continuum of political song-cycles, Lacy collaborates on his new epic work The Cry with Bangladeshi activist Taslima Nasrin. Nasrin's '93 novella Laija ...
Dave Douglas: Convergence
by AAJ Staff
The title is most appropriate. Here is all manner of music--jazz, classical (both old and modern), folk music, show tunes, and quite a bit that's indescribable. You get Douglas, drummer Michael Sarin, and three strings--but you don't get a “string" album. Sounds drift in and out, and the focus can change in a heartbeat. It's edgy, ...
Steve Lacy: THE CRY
by AAJ Staff
Although THE CRY furthers the fascination soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy has previously established with setting the work of women writers to music, it also breaks significant new ground in it’s bold, uncompromising feminist political slant. In that single respect, THE CRY could well prove to be as controversial as it is compelling. For this recording, Lacy ...
Glenn Horiuchi Unit(a): Fair Play
by AAJ Staff
Pianist Glenn Horiuchi's quartet eagerly dwells in the nooks and crannies of impromptu free jazz. On his new recording Fair Play (recorded in 1994), punchy piano clusters lead without warning to quotations of showtunes or circus melodies, only to melt back into the seething abyss of free improvisation. Tuba player William Roper adds a cheeky ironic ...
Dave Douglas: Convergence
by Robert Spencer
Trumpeter Dave Douglas' growing list of credits includes a star turn in the ever-increasing oeuvre of John Zorn's Masada, the celebrated quartet that turns Hebrew folk melodies into tremendous occasions of Ornette-flavored up-tempo jazz improvisation. Douglas himself has demonstrated, independently of Zorn, a flair for jazzing folk melodies that is at the forefront again on the ...
Dave Douglas: Convergence
by Glenn Astarita
On “Convergence” the brilliant trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas pursues new territory following up on “Parallel Worlds” and the more recent “Five”. Douglas once again utilizes the sparkling talents of violinist Mark Feldman and cellist Erik Friedlander as the combination of strings, trumpet, and rhythm section consisting of Drew Gress (bass) and Michael Sarin (drums) create music that ...
Gianluigi Trovesi: Around Small Fairy Tales
by Robert Spencer
Around Small Fairy Tales is one of the most fascinating melanges I've encountered in a long while. Clarinetist Gianiluigi Trovesi (who also wields an alto sax on occasion) here fronts a 23-piece orchestra, the Orchestra da Camera di Nembro Enea Salmeggia, under the direction of arranger Bruno Tommaso. There are quite a few violins and other ...
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