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DIEGO URCOLA - Mates (2013)
The stories of tea and its discovery—depending upon which part of the world they come from—are delightfully apocryphal. But the taking of tea is real and ceremonial although the stories told at that...
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DIEGO URCOLA - Viva (2006)
Diego Urcola is no stranger to the limelight, or the practice room, for that matter. Having begun his musical studies at the age of nine in the Colegio Ward in Buenos Aires, followed up by the...
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CHARLES MINGUS - Three or Four Shades of Blue (1977)
In spite of the electric guitars, which don't really fit that well, the title track is one of the more successful Charles Mingus efforts at extended composition. The list of section titles for the work...
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CHARLES MINGUS - Cumbia and Jazz Fusion (1977)
Tracklist1. Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (C. Mingus) 2. Music for "Todo Modo" (C. Mingus) 3. Wedding March·Slow Waltz (take 9) (Trad. Arr/ C. Mingus)4. Wedding March·Slow Take 12) (Trad. Arr/ C....
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CHARLES MINGUS - Me, Myself an Eye (1978)
Charles Mingus did not perform on the final sessions he made for Atlantic toward the end of his life. Too ill with ALS to pick up his bass, he nonetheless was a powerful presence in the studio. The...
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FOOD - Quiet Inlet (2010)
Quiet Inlet is the perfect title for this project by the duo Food, co-led by drummer Thomas Stronen and saxophonist Iain Ballamy. An exercise in texture music via electronica, Stronen and Ballamy take...
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DAVID BINNEY - Lifted Land (2012)
In a career that seems to go from strength to strength and milestone to milestone, it's hard to imagine how David Binney manages to not only release one terrific record after another, but to do so, in...
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EMILE PARISIEN QUARTET - Spezial Snack (2014)
The sophisticated 10-year-old quartet led by French saxophonist Émile Parisien retain their affections for post-Ornette free jazz, Django Batesian humour and contemporary-classical vocabularies, but...
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ELLERY ESKELIN·SUSAN ALCORN·MICHAEL FORMANEK - Mirage (2013)
Ellery Eskelin, Susan Alcorn, Michael Formanek. Sometimes just reading the names in certain line-ups sends one’s brain into paroxysms of excitement. Eskelin felt the same way as he pulled the group...
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ELLERY ESKELIN & HAN BENNINK - Dissonant Characters (1999)
Given Han Bennink's reputation and no-nonsense attitude when it comes to improvising in a duet situation, most of his performances with American musicians lacked something. It's easy to see now what...
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ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO - When Everyone Has Gone (1996)
Like so many American players, Sweden's Esbjorn Svensson has backed his share of pop artists but is essentially a jazz improviser at heart. Svensson's enthusiasm for improvisation came through loud and...
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ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO - Live In Hamburgo (2007)
In a word: wow. Since their 1993 debut album, the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, or E.S.T., as it is usually called, have taken the jazz world by storm, winning numerous awards, playing sold-out world tours,...
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ERIC DOLPHY - Out There (1960)
The follow-up album to Outward Bound, Eric Dolphy's second effort for the Prestige/New Jazz label (and later remastered by Rudy Van Gelder) was equally praised and vilified for many reasons. At a time...
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CHARLES MINGUS - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history. Charles Mingus consciously designed the six-part ballet as his magnum opus, and...
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CHARLES MINGUS - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963)
Having completed what he (and many critics) regarded as his masterwork in The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Charles Mingus' next sessions for Impulse found him looking back over a long and fruitful...
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ERIC WATSON·STEVE LACY·JOHN LINDBERG - The Amiens Concert (1987)
Tracks1. Daughter Of Darkness (Eric Watson) 2. Newcanaan Con Man (Eric Watson) 3. Juggernaut (Eric Watson) 4. Holding (Steve Lacy) 5. The Terrace (John Lindberg) 6. Substance Abuse (Eric Watson) JOHN...
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ERIC WATSON·CHRISTOF LAUER QUARTET - Road Movies (2004)
It is a fast and energetic road movie that Eric Watson and Christof Lauer have shot for us. Long driving parts in unison shape the sound of this fascinating record. Lauer is a renowned German jazz...
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FOOD - Last Supper (2004)
The Norwegian-English quartet Food keeps refining the mostly Norwegian brand of mixing free-form modern jazz and warm electronica, begun on its last recording ( Veggie , Rune Grammofon, 2002), in a...
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FOOD - Mercurial Balm (2012)
While Anglo/Norwegian musical encounters have recently been on the rise—Norway's In The Country and Jaga Jazzist, for example, recently discovering respective nexus points with British pedal steel...
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ENRICO PIERANUNZI with SCOTT COLLEY·ANTONIO SANCHEZ Stories (2014)
When we think we have reached it and grasped it, Enrico Pieranunzi moves a little beyond our reach, in a continuous evolution in which creativity generates happy musical inventions and confirms him as...
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