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Valentin Caamaño Trio: The Joy
by Bruce Lindsay
Sometimes album titles have an air of mystery, an enigmatic collection of words that seemingly bear no relevance to anything, especially the music. No such problem with The Joy, from the Valentin Caamaño Trio. From the cheerily welcoming swing of Charlie Parker's “Yardbird Suite" to the relaxed beauty of Thelonious Monk's “Pannonica" this is an album ...
David Mengual Free Spirits Big Band: Vertebrats
by Bruce Lindsay
This is a bit of a monster. The David Mengual Free Spirits Big Band is a big Big Band--27 musicians--with impressive musical scope, mixing improvisation with written charts, original pieces with tunes by some of the best known and most respected composers of the last 300 years. Vertebrats is the band's third album--a richly varied, ambitious ...
Luis Tabuenca: Volavérunt
by Eyal Hareuveni
As a performer and composer, Spanish percussionist Luis Tabuenca focuses on the contemporary and experimental, blurring distinctions between improvised and composed music. He has studied in esteemed modern ensembles such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Ensemble Recherche and he has written music for solo percussion, contemporary dance, documentaries and visual artists. ...
Hat: Twins
by Vincenzo Roggero
La band nasce a Barcellona nel 2004 grazie all'incontro nella città catalana di quattro musicisti i cui percorsi si erano già incrociati in passato sia in terra iberica che oltreoceano. Le buone sensazioni scattano immediate, l'alchimia non stenta a manifestarsi ed ecco che il gruppo si ritrova in sala d'incisione. A distanza di dieci anni esce ...
Mike McKoy: Ludwig Manhattan’s Germaican Blues
by Marta Ramon
This is not a conventional jazz album because this is not just a jazz album. Ludwig Manhattan's Germaican Blues melds together the blues feeling with literature and a strong social philosophical idea: “Could you bloom, wherever you'd been planted?" Apparently, this audio-book experiment has been inspired by Mary Flannery O'Connor's writing The Life You Save May ...
Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival 2014
by Bruce Lindsay
Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival Barcelona October 31-November 6, 2014 The 46th Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival proved once again that jazz is a crucial contemporary art form--one that encourages us to think; one that engages with many, many cultures around the world; one that can create surprise; one that can ...
Spain/Josh Haden Signs With Dine Alone Records. "Sargent Place," Due November 4, Includes Final Charlie Haden Recording
“...The name of the band comes from a dream and to me everyday life is very dream-like…dreams are part of what inspires me and what has inspired the content of the songs, and will continue to...” —Josh Haden, August 2014 Dine Alone Records is proud to announce the addition of the band SPAIN to their North ...
Joan Chamorro and Andrea Motis: Feeling Good
by Bruce Lindsay
Feeling Good is well named: the feelgood vibe is strong and the love of music that reaches out from this album is pretty much guaranteed to leave listeners with a similarly good feeling. It's the second album from Joan Chamorro--bassist, saxophonist and director of Barcelona's Sant Andreu Jazz Band--and the band's star member, the teenage singer ...
Gio Yáñez: Zero Point Energy
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitarist Gio Yáñez makes his debut as a bandleader and recording artist with Zero Point Energy. He leads an impressive group of Spanish and Portuguese musicians on a set of original compositions that draw on contemporary jazz and rock as well as on the music of Galicia, where the guitarist began his studies with players such ...
Latest Releases of Aural Terrains Label
by Eyal Hareuveni
The British label Aural Terrains continues to explore the extreme sonic terrains of electro-acoustic spontaneous improvisations, each different in its vivid atmosphere and suggestive sounds. The label's recent pair of releases feature two distinct outfits that present the arresting results of a careful, balanced mix of acoustics and electronics. Thanos Chrysakis / Ken ...
