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Max Johnson: The Prisoner
by Libero Farnè
L'emergente Max Johnson, cresciuto nel New Jersey e stabilitosi a New York, dopo una seria formazione e una gavetta al fianco di alcuni dei più bei nomi dell'avanguardia s'inserisce di diritto nell'ormai vasta schiera di validi contrabbassisti-leader dell'attuale scena jazzistica internazionale. Questa sua suite s'ispira ad un serial programmato dalla televisione britannica nel 1968 e rivisto ...
Trombonist/Composer Marshall Gilkes To Release Köln Featuring The WDR Big Band
On February 10, 2015, trombonist/composer Marshall Gilkes proudly releases his fourth album as a leader, simply titled for the home base of The WDR Big Band, KÖLN. This set of stunning compositions marks Gilkes first recording fronting a big band, but he is no stranger to this setting, being a regular member of Maria Schneider's Grammy ...
Seasoned Jazz Singer Records "Lullabies" Album And Dedicates It To Help Fight Child Abuse
Jazz musician Dena Taylor is raising money to help distribute her newest album, Lullabies, in order to help soothe traumatized children and raise money for organizations fighting child abuse. Music can be a calming and healing influence, and lullabies sung by a mother can be a true expression of love and safety. Unfortunately, some children living ...
The Chad Eby Quartet: The Sweet Shel Suite
by Nicholas F. Mondello
For those who might not know him from his most famous written works, “The Giving Tree" and “Light in the Attic," or from his music, Johnny Cash's hit, “A Boy Named Sue," poet, cartoonist, playwright and Grammy®-winning musician, Shel Silverstein was about as unique and talented an artist as they come. Ironically, some of his best ...
Blaise Siwula / Dom Minasi: The Sunshine Don't Mind My Singing
by Jakob Baekgaard
Good music does not come out of nowhere. It grows from tradition and experience. This is especially evident in a genre like jazz where the use of improvisation is crucial. Improvisation, at least the interesting kind, has echoes of the past. The exciting thing as a listener is to hear how the musical ...
Dayna Stephens: Peace
by Angelo Leonardi
C'è un gruppo stellare accanto al sassofonista Dayna Stephens per il suo quinto disco da leader e il risultato non poteva che essere pregevole per equilibrio, lirismo e adesione ai valori fondanti del jazz moderno. Il percorso musicale è quello di un concept album caratterizzato da una precisa linea espressiva: undici ballad di autori vari (c'è ...
The Westerlies: Wish the Children Would Come on Home
by Vincenzo Roggero
Due trombe, due tromboni quattro fiati che soffiano le note della musica di Wayne Horvitz, presente con le sue tastiere in qualche brano, ma in maniera discreta, in punta di piedi, ad assicurare un contatto fisico con la sua musica da dietro le quinte, per non disturbare e lasciare massima libertà ai giovani interpreti. È questo ...
Paul McCandless: All the Mornings Bring
by John Kelman
Paul McCandlessAll the Mornings BringElektra1979 Today's Rediscovery comes from Oregon's reed and woodwind multi-instrumentalist, Paul McCandless: All the Mornings Bring, his 1979 leader debut. When Oregon was signed to Elektra in 1978 for Out of the Woods, it afforded the two members of the group who did not already ...
Barker / Dunmall / Dahl: Luddite
by Glenn Astarita
This is the second album emanating from celebrated British saxophonist, Paul Dunmall's 2012 visit to New York City, performing at the Vision Festival, and follows his initial 2013 appearance for New Atlantis Records on a date led by guitarist Edward Ricart, titled Chameleon. Hence, top New York City-based improvisers, drummer Andrew Barker and bassist Tim Dahl--the ...
Ben Tyree/BT3: Burn it! LIVE
by Ian Patterson
Even prior to moving to New York from his native Washington DC in 2002 Ben Tyree was genre-bending in Miscellaneous Flux, fusing hip-hop, jazz and punk vocabulary. His outright debut as leader, re:Vision (Sonic Architectures, 2010) was a hard-grooving take on contemporary jazz-fusion featuring DJ Logic and John Medeski. That template flew out the window on ...
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