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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Hedvig Mollestad, Trickster, Loren Stillman

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 10, 2024

At a time when music producers have been seriously entertaining the thought of promoting one minute-long songs to deal with the short attention span of today's online music listeners, we want to celebrate musicians who are unfazed by this trend, and instead follow their internal muse. At the top of the hour the remarkable new album ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Album

Trickster

By Miles Okazaki

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Kudzu; Mischief Maker; Box in a Box; Eating Earth; Black Bolt; The West; The Calendar; Caduceus; Borderland.

Article: Album Review

Miles Okazaki: Trickster

Read "Trickster" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 11, 2017

There is nothing deceptive about guitarist Miles Okazaki's Trickster. It is simply an elegantly crafted work that engages with its narrative quality and its darkly hued, intriguing texture. On his fourth release as a leader the New York based Okazaki leads a quartet that consists of two of his bandmates from altoist Steve Coleman's Five Elements, ...

Article: Album Review

Miles Okazaki: Trickster

Read "Trickster" reviewed by Nicola Negri

by Nicola Negri
April 17, 2017

Semplicità e immediatezza sono spesso gli elementi principali di un progetto ben riuscito. Altre volte, la complessità della ricerca teorica più rigorosa serve a illustrare una precisa visione musicale. I dischi che riescono a coniugare in maniera convincente questi aspetti sono rari, e Trickster è uno di questi. Il chitarrista Miles Okazaki, membro stabile ...

Article: Album Review

Miles Okazaki: Trickster

Read "Trickster" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 24, 2017

Guitarist Miles Okazaki (Steve Coleman, Dan Weiss) is a meticulous artist and visionary partly due to his thorny and geometrically inclined theme-building practices. With ECM recording artist Craig Taborn sharing the frontline, the guitarist often makes complex storylines sound effortless by design, paralleled by the quartet's symmetrical pulses and deterministic gait. The band also gels to ...