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Stephan Crump with Rosetta Trio: Reclamation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sedici corde. Sei, quelle della chitarra elettrica di Jamie Fox (Dr. John, Blood, Sweat & Tears). Sei, quelle della chitarra acustica di Liberty Ellman (Henry Threadgill Zooid, Vijay Iyer). Quattro, quelle del contrabbasso di Stephan Crump (Steve Lehman, Joel Harrison). Sedici corde che danno origine al Rosetta Trio. Un album di debutto, Rosetta, entrato nella lista ...
Roswell Rudd: The Incredible Honk
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a distinct sense of the celebration of his 75th year on this good earth as trombonist Roswell Rudd continues the journey through his singular musical universe on his superb The Incredible Honk. Criss-crossing the paths he took when he first reconnected with ethnomusicologist producer and soul mate Verna Gillis, Rudd undertakes a sonic sojourn ...
Greg Reitan: Daybreak
by Dan McClenaghan
Greg Reitan has, since 1995, carved out a career as an award-winning composer for television and film. It wasn't until 2009, however, that the Los Angeles-based pianist released his first jazz CD, one of the top piano trio recordings of the year, Some Other Time (Sunnyside Records). Reitan followed up this excellent debut with another top-level ...
Armen Donelian: Leapfrog
by Dan Bilawsky
While cohesion and individuality, by their very definitions, may seem to be at odds with one another, the music on Leapfrog reconciles these two opposing ideals without a problem. For his ninth date on the Sunnyside label, pianist Armen Donelian has together a program of strikingly modern originals that showcase the cutting edge talent and simpatico ...
Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light
by Troy Collins
Branching out from his duties in The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, drummer Dave King formed the Dave King Trucking Company to explore a highly personalized take on Americana that he describes as “if the great Nashville bands of the '60s and '70s could improvise and were Coltrane fanatics." Building on this idea, King and company ...
Adam Cruz: Milestone
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per i veri artisti un'incisione discografica è il frutto di urgenza espressiva, non di promozione autoreferenziale. In questa ristretta schiera rientra il batterista e percussionista Adam Cruz, da almeno vent'anni in auge sulla scena jazzistica statunitense in veste di eclettico e prezioso sideman. Ora è venuto il momento della primo disco da leader, per estendere alla ...
Aaron Goldberg / Guillermo Klein: Bienestan
by Mark F. Turner
Collaborations between two jazz pianists on the same recording are rare. Yet in the case of rising stars Aaron Goldberg and eclectic composer Guillermo Klein's Bienestan--whose title means “a place of well-being"--the collaboration works on many levels and translates into a rewarding experience.Their connection began at Berklee in the 1990s. Goldberg played piano in ...
Denny Zeitlin: Labyrinth
by Dan McClenaghan
Denny ZeitlinLabyrinthSunnyside Records2011 Pianist Denny Zeitlin recorded a handful of fine albums for Columbia Records in the mid-1960s, forward-leaning trio affairs showcasing his often cerebral but always approachable technique and his superb songwriting. This was at a time when he was studying medicine. He became, and continues ...
Denny Zeitlin: Labyrinth
by Raul d'Gama Rose
To Denny Zeitlin the piano is several instruments rolled into one. It is a percussion instrument, struck by fingers and all manner of objets d'art. Together with his feet, which depress the pedals as if they were instrumental peripherals in themselves, Zeitlin makes masterful use of them to split, carve, bend and hang notes. Zeitlin might ...
Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein: Bienestan
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There might actually have been a universe called “Bienestan" and it may have existed for as long as Guillermo Klein. The rich sonic topography of this undiscovered place is just emerging. It is a place of oceans of sound, with energetic waves that make their rhythmic way to lap upon a shore that glistens with all ...
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