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Naama Liany - Daydream
by Abigail Okorodus, Delano (Luxembourg)
The French-Israeli mezzo-soprano Naama Liany is set to launch her debut album titled Daydream with a release show this January at the Philharmonie. The album was supported by the culture ministry and Kultur lx.
Tell us about your new album. What inspired the idea to create it?
My new album, Daydream, brings together works on the subject of dreams and daydreams by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Federico Mompou and Albena... read more
Lucas Pino - No Net Nonet
by Shaun Brady, Downbeat
3 1/2 STARS Young tenorman Lucas Pino has led a monthly residency at Smalls Jazz Club with his smart nine-piece ensemble since March 2013, which explains why the band sounds so tight and cohesive on its self-titled debut, No Net Nonet. Out of the gate, the band navigates blistering, breakneck lines with hairpin precision on opener "The Fox," which features well-articulated serpentine runs from the leader followed by a more spacious... read more
Francis Coletta | Jonas Tauber - Port Said Street
by Ric Bang, Jazz Scan
Marseilles-born guitarist Francis Coletta and Swiss cellist Jonas Tauber joined forces last year to create this marvelous duet album. I can't remember ever having heard this instrumental combination in a jazz framework, but it works beautifully.
Both Coletta and Tauber began playing in the classical genre; as their interests expanded, they became members of jazz units and/or accompanists to vocalists and dance groups. Although Colleta has... read more
Clay Giberson - Minga Minga
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
4 STARS From the mouth of his young daughter came the four playful syllables that don't mean a thing in the adult world, but Portland, Oregon-based pianist Clay Giberson took the idea - and the momentous event of the birth of his child - and went into the studio to record solo, every day for two weeks. The result is Minga Minga.
Giberson's association with Origin Records has been a fruitful one, featuring a double handful of... read more
Michael Bisio & Timothy Hill - Inside Voice / Outside Voice
by S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!
Bassist Michael Bisio and acoustic guitarist/vocalist Timothy Hill recently got together to make a delightful, instinctive record that neither could have made with anyone else.
Recorded as a single continuous take without any edits, Inside Voice / Outside Voice (Origin Records) is a communion between two seasoned souls who have each led long, varied musical careers marked by being open-minded and making no compromises. Otherwise, these aren't... read more
Geof Bradfield - Our Roots
by Brian Zimmerman, Downbeat
EDITOR'S PICK The idea for saxophonist Geof Bradfield's intrepid new album Our Roots sprang from a concert series in Chicago called the Fulton Street Jazz Record Art Collective, in which musicians perform a classic jazz album in its entirety. Since its inception, visiting artists have covered works by all the usual suspects - John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach - but when it was Bradfield's turn, the Houston-born... read more
John Stowell / Dave Glenn & The Hawčaptak Quartet - Violin Memory
by Georg Modestin, Jazz 'N' More (Switzerland)
5-STARS They have known each other for a long time, the American guitarist John Stowell and his compatriot Dave Glenn, the latter a trombonist. The two musicians are no longer the youngest, Stowell was born in 1950, Glenn in 1951, and both can look back on long careers on stage and in the classroom. Over the years they have repeatedly come together as a duo, a duo with a highly unusual line-up that has developed a very personal, chamber... read more
David Weiss Sextet - Auteur
by Lance Liddle, BeBop Spoken Here (UK)
There have been a lot of excellent albums dished up for review this year and already the contenders for Album of the Year are amassing.
Auteur is one guaranteed to be in the shake-up. It's the kind of music I had in mind when I first started blogging all those years ago - bop, hard bop, post bop and beyond (albeit not too far beyond).
In his notes, Weiss states that, just like in politics, jazz has no middle anymore. adding that, unlike... read more
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