Harris Eisenstadt September Trio – The Destructive Element (2013)
Here is one more fundamental opus of the present day jazz creativity recorded in Portugal, the little, sunny country serving as the door to enter Europe and to get out in the direction of the New...
View ArticleEric Revis Trio – City of Asylum (2013)
Can you tell when a straight-ahead jazz perfor- mance – live or recorded – is also an experimental one? No? We can: it happens when Eric Revis is involved, being this double bassist the not-enough...
View ArticleEllery Eskelin, Michael Formanek, Susan Alcorn – Mirage (2013)
Listeners have come to expect the unexpected from tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, especially with respect to the musical settings in which he places himself. His long-running group with accordionist...
View ArticleMark Dresser Quintet – Nourishments (2013)
A singularly accomplished bass innovator in the fields of jazz, free improvisation and new music, Mark Dresser has devoted himself in recent years to pushing the capacities of solo bass performance...
View ArticleSophie Agnel, John Edwards, Steve Noble – Meteo (2013)
The liner notes said it best, …”listening is a form of improvisation.” To be sure, no two listeners come away from Meteo with the same experience. This single track (38:25) live recording from the 2012...
View ArticleNate Wooley Sextet – (Sit in) The Throne of Friendship (2013)
Nate Wooley isn’t only a great trumpeter, one of the very best around. He’s also a musician of projects, a conceptualist, a composer, a bandleader. And the Nate Wooley Sextet is his brass band of...
View ArticleNate Wooley, Peter Evans, Jim Black, Paul Lytton – Trumpets and Drums: Live...
Trumpet and drums, or more exactly: two trumpets and two drumsets. The trumpeters, Nate Wooley and Peter Evans, are used to playing together, but it’s a first finding such different drummers (one a...
View ArticleJoe McPhee – Sonic Elements (for pocket trumpet and alto saxophone) (2013)
Joe McPhee is a musician of many solo albums (this is the number eight), but each one gives a different view of his art – either because of the instrumental choices, being the tenor saxophone the most...
View ArticleSusana Santos Silva & Torbjörn Zetterberg – Almost Tomorrow (2013)
Be warned. It doesn’t prepare you for what’s inside Almost Tomorrow knowing that Susana Santos Silva has some side projects in the fields of avant-jazz and non-idiomatic music (Lama, SSS-Q…) besides...
View ArticleAngelica Sanchez & Wadada Leo Smith – Twine Forest (2013)
A duo is the most intimate of encounters in jazz – such a tête-à-tête demands rare communication, forcing each player to open up, unable to rely on group interplay. The duo of pianist Angelica Sanchez...
View ArticleElliott Sharp Aggregat – Quintet (2013)
The first Aggregat edition was a rather conventional trio with a hard bop matrix, something very unusual when the leader is someone like Elliott Sharp. Yes, the guitarist who, in “Sharp? Monk? Sharp!...
View ArticleKris Davis Trio – Waiting for You to Grow (2014)
Kris Davis releases her second trio record, Waiting for You to Grow, on Clean Feed records (a sequel to her first trio recording, Good Citizen, on Fresh Sound). Long favored by her peers, jazz fans and...
View ArticleKullhammar / Aalberg / Zetterberg – Basement Sessions vol. 2 (2014)
Second chapter of the Basement legendary sessions by the trio of saxophone ace Jonas Kullhammar, bass wizard Torbjörn Zetterberg and master drummer Espen Aalberg. Old fashioned sound exploring the...
View ArticleMatt Bauder – Nightshades (2014)
Tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Matt Bauder is one of those young musicains who has an equal capacity to play in and out of the formal idiomatic conventions. When with Memorize the Sky he goes out,...
View ArticleJohn Hébert Trio – Floodstage (2014)
Finding three musicians that speak the same language — jazz — is not uncommon. However, finding three that are as compatible as bassist John Hébert, pianist Benoit Delbecq, and drummer Gerald Cleaver...
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