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Piet Verbist - Secret Exit to Another Dimension
by Georges Tonla Briquet, Jazzenzo (Belgium)
Double bassist Piet Verbist ( Toots Thielemans, Jef Neve, Jasper Blom), drummer Lionel Beuvens and guitarist Hendrik Braeckman have been playing together in different groups for quite some time, but this is only their debut album as a trio.
Every now and then a person needs an escape route, according to Piet Verbist. It sometimes leads to unexpected encounters, which in turn form the motive for a new musical adventure. In short, this is the... read more
Amit Friedman - Unconditional Love
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Amit Friedman plays mostly tenor and a bit of soprano sax with his core team of Tom Oren/p, Gilad Abro/b, Yonatan Rosen/dr and guests Rony Iwryn/perc, Doran Talmon/voc and Joca Perpignan/voc on this mix of moods of mostly originals.
Friedman shows his warm tone and clean intonation on a duet with the Bill Evansy piano of Oren on " Rill-Cool" while the Oren goes dark to Friedman's fluffy notes on the title track. Rony Iwryn's percussion... read more
Lorin Cohen - Home
by Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
Though he's lived in New York since 2012, bassist Lorin Cohen reveals the modesty instilled by his Chicago upbringing on his recently released debut Home (Origin), playing with a soulful muscularity and helming his band's harmonic shapes and rhythmic thrust rather than trying to command center stage. Cohen understands what it takes to make a band sound better without drawing attention to himself. Before leaving town he spent five years on the... read more
Thomas Marriott - Individuation
by John Kelman, All About Jazz
All too often you hear that jazz is dead, that there is little of significance being created today. Maybe the playing field is just so large that it can be more difficult to identify major leaps forward than in past decades. Still, for a marginalized genre that is responsible for something like 3% of total CD sales in the United States, one need only look at the sheer volume of new releases by young artists each and every month to realize that... read more
Darrell Grant - Truth And Reconciliation
by Bill Barton, Coda
Pianist-composer Darrell Grant has assembled an impressive group here. The core trio has John Patitucci on bass and Brian Blade on drums. Also appearing are guitarists Bill Frisell and Adam Rogers, vibraphonist Joe Locke and saxophonist Steve Wilson. Grant's Truth and Reconciliation Project "was inspired by my own search for artistic truth, the struggle for justice and healing in South Africa, and the birth of my son," as he states on his... read more
Francis Coletta | Jonas Tauber - Port Said Street
by Donald Elfman, New York City Jazz Record
Port Sa�d Street is perhaps more accessible but no less consequential as it offers a kind of jazz journey by two virtuoso string players. Jonas Tauber is the cellist - he is known primarily as a bassist but has realized a lifelong dream "to play cello in this way" - and he deftly plays rhythmic complement to guitar explorations and presents solo turns both bowed and plucked. The tunes are a mix of jazz standards and guitarist Francis... read more
Piet Verbist - Suite Réunion
by Editor, France Musique - Jazz Trotter
Present on the European jazz scene for 25 years, Belgian bassist Piet Verbist is best known in recent years for his participation in Jef Neve triode. He has previously recorded and shot with his own bands such as Zygomatik or the Mamutrio collective.
Having many compositions that did not meet the needs of these groups, Piet Verbist created an acoustic quartet to explore other musical concepts, with plenty of room for improvisation. " Suite... read more
Jim Knapp & Scrape - Approaching Vyones
by C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
Twenty-first Century Orchestral Music. For a string orchestra named Scrape, this music is quite well behaved and well- integrated. Approaching Vyones is composed of ten short pieces, each independent of the other, yet melding well as a whole. Guitarist Bill Frisell contributes one piece, "Naomi" to the collection, while the remainder of the selections are Jim Knapp compositions. Traces of Barber and Piston can be heard among the... read more
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