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Juhani Aaltonen / Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The splendid music on Conversations is as close to the celebration of Impressionism in modern music as possible. It is true that saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist Heikki Sarmanto create epic narratives here, and also true that both act as characters in those narratives. Of greater significance, however, is the extraordinary emotion of these musical stories, ...
Andrew Cyrille / Haitian Fascination: Route de Freres
by Raul d'Gama Rose
To experience ecstasy without the memory of it would certainly be a travesty. Fortunately, it may now be possible to have both--to have the near-perfect memory of being in the throes of ecstasy--and it is all because of the music on Route de Frères by Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination. More specifically, it is because of ...
Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In the epic narratives and gorgeous elegies of trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith lies a heart immersed in the spirituality of the blues. His music drinks from an ancient well that predates organized worship and actually resides in one that celebrates the Creator in his awesome glory. This is why Smith is able to make ...
Olavi Trio & Friends: Triologia
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In his fine dissertation, “The Descriptive Grammar of the Ground--Almost Complete Poems" Brazilian poet Manoel de Barros wrote of the poetry that exists in everything, if one chooses to see it. The Beat poets, especially Allen Ginsberg, echoed this belief in emotive poetry. Similarly, Olavi and Friends--albeit in ways a lot more extreme than the Paul ...
FAB Trio: History of Jazz In Reverse
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The air is full of a dark menace at the opening movements of Billy Bang's violin in “Homeward Bound," suggesting that music of overwhelming sadness will follow. However, all of this soon dissipates as bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Barry Altschul--and Bang as well--guide the music from turmoil and grave fear, loathing and gloom to the ...
Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets
by Eyal Hareuveni
Every few years master composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith surprises with a new outfit that fits wonderfully in his rich and complex musical universe. The Mbira trio is no exception: a timeless, multidimensional trio, inspired by revered ancestors but with its course set for a possible future. In this trio, Smith contextualizes the spiritual veins ...
Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination: Route de Frères
by AAJ Italy Staff
America del ghetto, Africa e Caraibi s'incontrano in questo nuovo lavoro (incisione, però, del 2005) dell'oggi settantaduenne batterista già gloriosamente a fianco di Cecil Taylor. Negritudine sugli scudi, quindi, anche perché l'altro elemento schiettamente jazzistico del quintetto è quell'Hamiet Bluiett la cui prima visibilità rimanda all'estrema stagione mingusiana. Più Mingus, se proprio vogliamo (ricordiamo almeno l'"Haitian ...
Juhani Aaltonen - Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
by AAJ Italy Staff
È recente le ristampa da parte dell'ECM di alcune incisioni del periodo 1975-1978 del contrabbassista Arild Andersen in cui l'allora giovane sassofonista finlandese Juhani Aaltonen metteva in evidenza tutto il suo valore. Una carriera la sua che si æ per lo più svolta in patria o in Scandinavia, fra orchestre e combo, ovunque ci fosse un ...
Juhani Aaltonen & Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
by Eyal Hareuveni
Saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist Heikki Sarmanto are two icons of the Finnish jazz scene. Collaborating constantly for almost fifty years in myriad outfits and formats, despite many moves in their busy musical careers, they have never recorded as a duo. These two “incurable romantics," as Aaltonen defines it, use this opportunity to record an album ...
Juhani Aaltonen and Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
by Dan McClenaghan
Many musicians from other countries come to the United States to study their art and then remain to build careers. Others, like saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist Heikki Sarmanto, both from Finland, attended programs in the US--in both cases at Boston's Berklee College--and then returned home to perform and record.With a history of five ...
