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Magos Herrera: Mexico Azul
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The sultry contralto cracks through the silence and a relatively new voce is discovered streaking across the skies of North America. This is the dark, sensuous voice of Magos Herrera, an outstanding young vocalist from Mexico. The constraints of singing in that register appear not to hold Herrera back for she often lets her voice soar ...
Stephane Belmondo: The Same As It Never Was Before
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is all a matter of the right tone for French trumpeter Stephane Belmondo. On Same As It Never Was Before, it is a matter of getting his lips in the right position--singular embouchure--then grabbing the air from his lungs and blowing it out in hot wild gusts through the horn. But it is also more ...
Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music For, And By, Dimitri Shostakovich
by Raul d'Gama Rose
To set the record straight: America has not taken a step closer to being more tolerant of any kind of musical rebel. It does not tolerate the one that conforms (for he or she too is a rebel), nor does it tolerate the one who is the objector. Like in every other aspect of life--other than ...
Bill McHenry: Ghosts Of The Sun
by Raul d'Gama Rose
If the musical evidence on Ghosts Of The Sun is to be believed, Bill McHenry is looking to become a composer of new American Songs. The saxophonist has a distinctive flair for this type of writing, and with this delightful album he could easily begin a path to assembling a songbook not unlike what songwriters like ...
Ron Carter's Great Big Band: Ron Carter's Great Big Band
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is practically nothing that Ron Carter has not done, including actually playing second bass fiddle to Charles Mingus on Three Or Four Shades Of Blue, (Atlantic, 1977). Ever since the world shone a spotlight on the bassist when he graced the great quintet of Miles Davis, with Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, Carter ...
Aaron Goldberg / Ali Jackson Jr. / Omer Avital: Yes!
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The strains of wistful longing are almost palpable right through the length and breadth of Yes!, a remarkable album by a remarkable trio. Pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Omer Avital and drummer Ali Jackson Jr. play with such empathy that they appear of one mind, body and soul. This is the stuff that significant music has been ...
Hans Glawischnig: Jahira
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The tonal riches of Hans Glawischnig's Jahira are so prodigious that the album feels like a devastatingly beautiful canvas that remains constantly wet and therefore changing and shape-shifting. Glawischnig has always given notice of his propensity for colors as he held together the bottom--and sometimes the top--register of the harmonics of many breathtaking musical charts. Now ...
David Weiss and Point of Departure: Snuck Out
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Point of Departure: from where a takeoff ensues. The name of this ensemble is most appropriate when it comes to the performances by this extraordinary group of musicians. Snuck Out presents the companion set of a memorable date recorded on March 25, 2008 that produced Snuck In (Sunnyside, 2010). The same intense energy pervades both recording ...
Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich
by AAJ Italy Staff
È impressionante il background del bassista canadese Michael Bates. Musicista hardcore e punk, raffinato contrabbassista jazz, allievo di Yoshio Nagashima (Tokyo Symphony), Tony Falanga e Mark Helias, studioso di Shostakovich, ora attivo a Brooklyn nella pattuglia di compositori-improvvisatori più creativi sulla scena newyorkese. Questo Acrobat prende le mosse proprio da Shostakovich, non già come omaggio stilistico, ...
Meredith d'Ambrosio: By Myself
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The deliciously husky contralto of Meredith d'Ambrosio is unlike any other today, but that's obvious. What is not immediately evident is the effect it has, the body's temperature rising slowly--not after listening to a few charts on By Myself, for that would take too long; but after hearing but a few short choruses. By the time ...
