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Tord Gustavsen Trio: Opening
by David Bruggink
After 2018's stellar The Other Side, Tord Gustavsen again graces listeners with a trio format. On this outing, ecologically-minded double bassist Sigurd Hole is replaced by ECM newcomer Steinar Raknes. A prolific recording artist with everything from dusky alt-country and americana to post-bop and free jazz to his name, Raknes introduces new flavors to the trio's palette. Gustavsen, ...
Ruphus: Let Your Light Shine
by Glenn Astarita
In 2021, this Oslo-based progressive rock label reissued / remastered all of the Norwegian progressive rock unit's 1970s and early 1980s analog tapes of the original LPs. During its progression the band were especially popular in West Germany. However, the North American prog aficionados may have found it difficult to become aware of Ruphus unless they ...
Rodrigo Almonte: Distancia
by Chris M. Slawecki
"Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical nomad," explains guitarist Rodrigo Almonte, who was born and raised in Peru, completed Bachelor of Arts ...
Monsters from the Jazzlab
by Chris M. Slawecki
Rodrigo Almonte Distancia Odradek Records 2021 “Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical ...
Samuel Mösching: Ethereal Kinks
by Kyle Simpler
Two words that frequently get overused when talking about jazz are “fusion" and “eclectic." In many cases, if something is difficult to categorize, one of these terms will probably apply. Unfortunately, in many cases, these terms also fail to truly capture the essence of the music. However, for Samuel Mösching's Ethereal Kinks, both eclectic and fusion ...
3x3: Piano Trios: January 2022
by Geno Thackara
Little North Familiar Places April Music 2022 While Little North's elegant variety of Scandinavian not-really-abstract impressionism stays as Northern as ever, their musical landscape is anything but little. Their second outing keeps all the strengths of their evocative debut Finding Seagulls (Self Produced, 2021) and expands in ways big and small. ...
Greg Lamy: Observe The Silence
by Mario Calvitti
È un buon momento per la chitarra jazz: sono moltissime le proposte interessanti che saltano fuori un po' dappertutto, e con una qualità media molto alta, da parte sia di musicisti già affermati che di nuovi emergenti. Se il jazz americano la fa ancora da padrone in questo contesto, non mancano comunque anche in Europa i ...
Jon Durant & Stephan Thelen: Crossings
by Mark Sullivan
These two guitarist/composers first came together when Stephan Thelen asked Jon Durant to contribute to a track on Fractal Guitar (MoonJune Records, 2019). Durant's role was greatly expanded on Fractal Guitar 2 (MoonJune Records, 2021): he played on all six tracks, his fretless guitar playing especially distinctive. Thelen had the idea of doing a duet with ...
Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble: Different Roots
by Jerome Wilson
This is not the usual large ensemble jazz recording. Instead of having instrumental groups play against each other, this music moves largely as a massed force with only sparing solo statements. It carries the gravity and weight of classical music and mixes in the harmonies and colors of jazz composers like Gil Evans and Kenny Wheeler ...
Arne Torvik: Northwestern Songs
by Friedrich Kunzmann
A vibrant modern jazz hub, Norway is famous for having introduced the likes of Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen and Arild Andersen to the international jazz landscape--all of whom had brought something fundamentally new to the jazz tradition in the '70s. As chance would have it, each of the mentioned heavyweights were also mainly at ...
