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David Weiss & Point of Departure: Snuck In
by AAJ Italy Staff
Snuck In ha tutte le caratteristiche di una blowing session vecchio stampo. Quattro dei cinque brani registrati rigorosamente dal vivo - al Jazz Standard di New York - , durata superiore ai dieci minuti - il terzo sfiora i venti minuti - esecuzioni dalla classica struttura tema-assoli-tema. Poi realizzi che la band prende nome dal capolavoro ...
Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet: Natural Selection
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Profound spirituality and soulfulness is not a quality associated with secular music. However, once in awhile, even secular music reaches levels of such ecstasy that these elements become entwined in the heart of its melody and harmonic changes, as well as its iterant rhythm. Less often, this fusion is found at the confluence of mystic rivers ...
Alex Brown: Pianist
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Even for a pianist with as prodigious a talent as Alex Brown, having a heavyweight in the music pantheon such as Paquito D'Rivera produce the debut album, must have largely been a dream. However, to pull off a debut as fine as this is a feat in itself. As a pianist, Brown has remarkable technique. Although ...
Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas - Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Guillermo Klein's third album for Sunnyside Records is also one of his most beguiling--and, very possibly, one of the most memorable tribute albums of the year. Domador de Huellas, literally “the tamer of the footprints," has a deeply significant meaning. The “footprints" in question are a visceral element of a history that is close to disappearing. ...
Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The immortal duets of vocalist Sheila Jordan with virtuoso bassists Cameron Brown and Harvie S, and with pianist extraordinaire, Steve Kuhn, now have a boon companion in Rebecca Martin's extraordinary trio album, When I Was Long Ago. Placing it with Jordan's legendary recordings is a must. The bassist on this session, Larry Grenadier, is in fine ...
David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Snuck In
by Dan Bilawsky
Trumpeter David Weiss was way ahead of his time when he brought together a group of forward-thinking musician-composers to form the New Jazz Composers Octet in 1996. This group--and the writing that was born from within its ranks--received positive critical response from the get-go, and foreshadowed the rise in collective-type situations throughout the jazz community. While ...
Scott Dubois: Black Hawk Dance
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trentaduenne Scott DuBois, nato nell'Illinois e cresciuto a New York, è un chitarrista che nell'ambiente del jazz americano si è fatto un nome: questo disco sembra porre bene in vista alcune belle caratteristiche ma anche qualche limite. Tutti i sette pezzi originali sono interessanti, sia per lo sviluppo ritmico e dinamico, sia per un'interpretazione molto ...
Chico Pinheiro: There's A Storm Inside
by Mark F. Turner
There's A Storm Inside reaffirms Brazilian music as still one of the most romantic and vivacious genres in the world. While the rich lineage of enticing vocals and exotic rhythms remains intact, guitarist/vocalist Chico Pinheiro expands the tradition and infuses it with modernistic touches. A consummate artist, his voice is as sultry as Vinicius Cantuária, along ...
Adrian Iaies Trio: A Child's Smile
by Raul d'Gama Rose
On A Child's Smile, Adrian Iaies sheds the Argentinean persona that occasionally shrouds his music. Here the pianist has become a complete, swaggering, swinging entity, and one who melds his mentors--Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland and principally Bill Evans--into an entirely new entity. The result is a brooding artist who looks deep within ...
Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There are just a handful of women vocalists alive today who continue to inhabit the rarefied space of imaginative storytellers while continuing to be unbridled innovators. Abbey Lincoln, Sheila Jordan, Norma Winstone, Cassandra Wilson, and, of course, Jay Clayton are amongst the few continuing to enthrall audiences worldwide. Despite numerous examples of their fine sense of ...
