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Miles Okazaki: Figurations
by Mark F. Turner
Figurations is the final release in Miles Okazaki's three volume compositional cycle. Its trajectory is based on forward-thinking ideas Okazaki began on his self-produced 2006 debut Mirror, and continued on the nearly sixty-minute Generations (Sunnyside, 2009), which was recorded in the studio in one take. While no less demanding, this recording was commissioned and performed in ...
Ben Wendel: Frame
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ben Wendel ha alle spalle una discografia nutrita insieme ai Kneebody, il gruppo elettrico di cui fa parte. Frame è il suo secondo lavoro da leader dopo il debutto con Simple Song, sempre per la Sunnyside Records. Ciò che si ascolta qui, però, è lontano dalla produzione dei Kneebody, anche se due altri componenti della band, ...
Erik Charlston JazzBrasil: Essentially Hermeto
by Matt Cibula
Erik Charlston is not shy about revealing his main influence. Not only did he title this album Essentially Hermeto after the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist/composer/mystic Hermeto Pascoal, he even starts the first track with the kind of rustling ambient sound that Pascoal loves so much. Unlike Pascoal himself, who might use that sound for a few minutes or ...
Joel Harrison 7: Search
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il recente Holy Abyss con il bassista italiano Lorenzo Feliciati (pubblicato da Cuneiform pochi mesi fa) sembrava avere distolto almeno un po' il bravo chitarrista americano dal suo mondo fatto da incroci improbabili fra generi solitamente lontani come il jazz contemporaneo e la musica classica del novecento. Questo album intitolato Search, appena pubblicato dall'etichetta Sunnyside, gli ...
Scott Dubois: Landscape Scripture
by Troy Collins
Art inspired by work in another medium can be difficult to successfully resolve--the old adage, “dancing about architecture," comes to mind. In the hands of a truly talented and empathetic artist however, such creative cross-pollination can bear surprisingly fruitful results, occasionally developing new potential for expression beyond the preconceived limitations of each respective form.Landscape ...
Ben Wendel: Frame
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a beautiful and mysterious quality to multi-instrumentalist Ben Wendel's Frame. It is as if the hot breath from one of his horns has blown some ancient film away to reveal an iridescent object that begins to oscillate and spin, changing colors and hues, mesmerizing as it spins and swings with uncharacteristic swagger. All this ...
Joel Harrison 7: Search
by John Kelman
Over the past decade, Joel Harrison has created a body of work distinct in its eclectic and multifaceted reach. Compositionally, the guitarist has worked in a variety of contexts, from the ambitious five-movement suite for string quartet and jazz quintet of The Wheel (Innova, 2008) and the pan-cultural, genre-busting Harbor (HighNote, 2007), where he found a ...
Laszlo Gardony: Signature Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il pianista di origini ungheresi Laszlo Gardony pubblica un nuovo lavoro per la Sunnyside Records dal titolo Signature Time, una sorta di tributo al sound proveniente dall'Africa, seme indispensabile per lo sviluppo dei generi contemporanei, dall'hip hop al jazz e per tutto quello che ci si può mettere nel mezzo.Il pianismo deciso del leader, ...
An Open Letter to Musicians: Lemme Hear It!
by Dave Sumner
This begins a series of posts intended to give artists, labels, and promoters some insight into how I use the internet to discover and purchase music and how that knowledge might be used to the benefit of the artists. I don't claim to be the prototypical music listener and buyer. I listen to, and ...
Johnathan Blake: The Eleventh Hour
by Troy Collins
Some debut recordings encapsulate all of an aspiring artist's diverse interests; others are less ambitious, and merely document a particular ensemble or performance. The Eleventh Hour, an expansive tour de force by rising drummer Johnathan Blake, is a prime example of the former. Blake's successful merger of styles should come as no surprise; in addition to ...
