Friday, April 27, 2018

Matt Piet Trio - Live in Chicago (2018)


Pianist Matt Piet is joined by other notable rising Chicago improvisers Charlie Kirchen on bass and Julian Kirchner on drums. 

This compilation of three albums tracks the live, in-performance progress of three improvising musicians over six months: from autumn of 2016 to spring of 2017. 

"Live In Chicago" chronicles: 
three up-and-coming young improvisers 
in their first three live performances together as a trio 
at three of Chicago's most essential outlets for improvised music. 

"Matt Piet has so much to say and this [trio] becomes the perfect vehicle for it." - Philip Coombs, Free Jazz Collective


1. Improvisation One 22:27
2. Improvisation Two 18:55
3. Improvisation Three 10:14
4. A Tad Forward 04:46
5. Aluminum Ally 12:45
6. Trialogue 06:29
7. Assembly Required 08:58
8. Shan't Be Gone Long 08:22
9. I 24:22
10. IIa 09:02
11. IIb 06:14
12. IIc 05:39

Matt Piet, piano
Charlie Kirchen, bass
Julian Kirshner, drums


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Jazz Area Metropolitana is going, Sile Jazz is coming!


Padova University
&

Friday 27 April, h 21.00
Stabulario - Porto Tolle (RO) 

"Silence on the River Soundscape"
final concert of
a Workshop in residence on the Po River: for one week lot of students and teachers from Padova University and several musicians worked together exploring the nature sound and silence at the mouth of the Po. The concert is the performing result after the long Workshop.

are going on during the week to continue the studiying of silence and to celebrate the Unesco International Jazz Day in Padova. The last gig is

Monday 30 April, h 21.00
Orto Botanico Auditorium
Bill Frisell (chitarra) / Thomas Morgan (contrabbasso)

Jazz Area Metropolitana is also involved in
spreading good music and culture to the beloved Veneto internal land and wonderful ancient residences.

Friday 27 April, h 21.00
Teatro Villa Belvedere - Mirano (VE)
KAOS PROTOKOLL 
with New Echoes - rassegna di nuova musica svizzera a Venezia / Consolato generale di Svizzera a Milano - and the support of Pro Helvetia

Simon Spiess (sax, bass clarinet) - Luzius Schuler (Fender Rhodes, synth)
Flo Reichle (drums, electronics) - Benedikt Wieland (bass, synth)

One of most eccentric and versatile bands in Switzerland (and Europe too)!

Friday 4 May, h 21.00
Villa Farsetti - Santa Maria di Sala (VE)
STILELIBERO 
with Conte 131

Luigi Vitale (vibraphone, vibraphone prepared with chains, bass bow, MXR distortion, Memory boy Electro Harmonix) - Luca Colussi (drums, bells, gong and several sonorous objects)

“Stilelibero” means (also) freestyle: Luigi and Luca are really acrobatic crawlistst of percussion instruments.

Sunday 13 May, h 18.00
Aranciera Villa Pisani - Stra (VE)
CRISTIANO ARCELLI TRIO “SOLARIS” 
Ingresso gratuito, prenotazione consigliata

Cristiano Arcelli (alto sax) - Stefano Senni (double bass) - Bernardo Guerra (drums)

Cristiano Arcelli Trio plays music which likes to be shaped while playing, something always changing towards new dimensions.


Do you know this place?

It's the bank of Sile, the nice Veneto river where nusica.org organize
SILE JAZZ FESTIVAL - 7th edition

from 14th of June to 28th of July 2018
15 concerts
in several lands around the river
with a great gig on a boat, sailing the Sile's water!

Stay tuned for new surprise.
In few days the new program will be online on

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Sunnyside's Great April Releases! (SUNNYSIDE RECORDS 2018)

Check out our New April Releases!

Apr. 27th! Out Today!



Mike McGinnisrealized his dream of recording and releasing an album with two of his musical heroes in 2017. The recording, Recurring Dream, featured the saxophonist/clarinetist/composer alongside two legends of jazz and creative music (also his mentors and friends), pianist Art Landeand electric bassist Steve Swallow. Both Lande and Swallow are well known for their compositional expertise, so McGinnis made sure to include original compositions from them both. 

The three musicians also have a penchant for thoughtful and eclectic approaches toward improvisation. McGinnis wanted to capture the both sides of this trio, the formal compositional and the more free, but equally focused, improvisational identities. The trio’s new recording Singular Awakening was culled from the same session as the original recording but features eight brilliant improvised pieces bookended by compositions written by either Lande or Swallow.

Apr. 20th!



Pianist Edward Simon– a native of Venezuela who has made a name for himself over decades in America as a jazz pianist, bandleader and composer-arranger, along with being a Guggenheim Fellow and member of the hit SFJAZZ Collective – presents his latest album, Sorrows and Triumphs, via Sunnyside Records on April 20, 2018. The recording showcases his virtuoso quartet Afinidad, featuring alto saxophonist David Binney, bassist Scott Colleyand drummer Brian Blade; the album’s color-rich arrangements also include special guests: vocalist Gretchen Parlato, guitarist Adam Rogersand the chamber quintet Imani Winds, along with percussionists Rogerio Boccato and Luis Quintero.

The album’s material blends two bodies of work commissioned by Chamber Music of America’s New Jazz Works program: the suites “Sorrows and Triumphs” and “House of Numbers,” their individual movements re-sequenced to form a holistic listening experience that brims with a lyricism both intimate and majestic. This release follows Simon’s Latin American Songbook, with the four-and-a-half-star DownBeatreview for that 2016 album praising its “grand and sophisticated”sound. Latin American Songbookalso won Simon an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album.

JazzTimeshas said: “Simon is less talked about than many other important jazz pianists from the Caribbean and South America, but he may be the most complete creative artist among them.”

Apr. 13th!



The merging of Brazilian music and American jazz changed the trajectory of modern music. The inceptions of bossa nova, samba jazz, and other fusions enable Brazil to make its mark on jazz and beyond, via some incredible musicians and composers, including the legendary Dom Salvador. The remarkable pianist and his classic trios, which blended samba and jazz, made an impression on many during the mid-1960s, including a young Duduka Da Fonseca.  

Duduka Da Fonseca Trio Plays Dom Salvadorwas born from the leader’s love of Salvador and his music and Fonseca’s effort to make a proper tribute to his friend and mentor. The featured trio was born of a 2000 meeting with pianist David Feldman, who was studying then at the New School in New York, and with whom Fonseca recorded with later in 2009 in Brazil, where he also met the trio’s bassist, Guto Wirtti.


Sunnyside Artists Live:

Apr. 27 - Laszlo Gardony Trio @ Dimensions In Jazz - Portland, ME
Apr. 27 - Dan Tepfer Trio @ Wroclaw Jazz Nad Odra Fest - Wroclaw, Poland
Apr. 28 - Dan Tepfer Trio @ 12 On 14 Jazz Club - Warsaw, Poland
Apr. 29 - Abdullah Ibrahim @ Annenbuerg Center for the Arts - Philadelphia, PA
Apr. 29 - Dan Tepfer Trio @ Jazz Dock - Prague, Czech Republic
Apr. 30 - Adam Kolker Trio @ Bar LunÀtico - Brooklyn, NY
May 1 - Caroline Davis Quintet @ Korzo - Brooklyn, NY
May 2-3 - Denny Zeitlin @ Mezzrow - NYC
May 4-5 - Denny Zeitlin Trio @ Mezzrow - NYC - CD Release Gig for Wishing On The Moon
May 4 - 9 Horses @ University of Denver - Denver, CO
May 4 - Dan Tepfer Trio @ Unterfahrt Jazz Club - Munich, Germany
May 5 - Dan Tepfer Trio @ Zig Zag Jazz Club - Berlin, Germany
May 9 - Dan Tepfer / Leon Parker @ Sunside Jazz Club - Paris, France
May 10 - Camila Meza & Aaron Goldberg @ Uncharted Series - NYC
May 10 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Outpost Performance Space - Albuquerque, NM
May 11 - Román Filiú @ Jazz Gallery - NYC - CD Release Gig for Quarteria
May 11 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Dazzle Jazz - Denver, Co
May 12 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ The Nash - Phoenix, AZ
May 12 - Dan Tepfer @ TBD - Padua, Italy
May 13 - 9 Horses @ Subculture - NYC
May 13 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Jazz on the Lane - Ventura, CA
May 14 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Blue Whale - Los Angeles, CA
May 15 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Black Cat - San Francisco, CA
May 15 - Glenn Zaleski Trio @ Dizzy's Club Coca Cola - NYC
May 16 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Vieux Carre - St. Paul, MN
May 17 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Chris' Jazz Café - Philadelphia, PA
May 18 - Edward Simon @ Community Music Center - San Francisco, CA
May 19 - Laszlo Gardony @ Trumpets - Montclair, NJ
May 22-27 - Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos @ Village Vanguard - NYC
May 25 - Jamie Baum Septet+ @ Firehouse 12 - New Haven, CT
May 25-26 - Duduka Da Fonseca Trio @ Kitano - NYC - CD Release Gig for Plays Dom Salvador
May 25-26 - Freddie Hendrix @ The Jazz Forum - Tarrytown, NY
May 26 - Jamie Baum Septet+ @ The Cell Theater - NYC
May 27 - Jamie Baum Septet+ @ The Fairfield Theatre Co. - Fairfield, CT
May 31-June 3 - Benny Green Trio @ Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
June 1 - Caroline Davis Quartet @ Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village
June 3 - Duane Eubanks Quartet @ Independence Seaport Museum
June 5 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Jazz Gallery - NYC
June 8 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Lifetime - Shizauoka, Japan
June 9 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Star Eyes - Nagoya, Japan
June 10-11 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Le Club Jazz - Kyoto, Japan
June 12 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Swing Hall - Musashino, Japan
June 15 - John Raymond & Real Feels @ Pit Inn - Shinjuku, Japan
June 16 - John Raymond @ Real Feels @ Body & Soul - Tokyo, Japan
June 20 - Shamie Royston @ Dizzy's Club Coca Cola - NYC - CD Release Gig for Beautiful Liar
July 10 - Matt Penman @ Jazz Standard - CD Release Gig for Good Question
July 17-18 - Michael Leonhart Orchestra @ Jazz Standard - CD Release Gig for The Painted Lady Suite


Don't forget the Mingus Big Band every Monday @ Jazz Standard in NYC!

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Cecil Taylor - Air Above Mountains (ENJA RECORDS 2018)


This is from August 20, 1976 Moosham Castle,open air festival in Austria someplace, Two Parts here the first 44'22 and Part Two a mere 31'53. Part One I though built too fast, wonderful middle register ideas, sputtering out,gently coaxing the temporalities of things, condensed, compacted spaces, sapces with un-freedom yet free to be a voice, his music are fragments of declamations, shards of speaking, we don't need his Words to hear his music, his Words are a distraction sometimes, from what he has to say with the piano.Not even 10 minutes into Part One and he begins his meta-ripplings up and down the keys, landed always one the bottom, I like the use of octaves here in the first ten minutes, bluesy thoughts yet abandoned afraid to go beyond, great timbre of the piano a Boesendorfer Grand, it has more a bass constitution than other piano, I think somewaht darker. this holds the bass ideas quite poerful stuff, like it anchors the rest down all that rippling(s). . . ,and he lands on Fifths Chords, a like a stopping point for Cecil never really stops.

 The Words here in the CD Jacket has some nice things to say, that the musician is the process, he'she creates by doing, and doing all the time incessantly,filling up the air above the mountains. . . Part Two is more serious,weighted even more an octave idea,alone lonely piano but then like INDENT builds foments,scats,projects,bellows within the basso regions,there are more reflective thoughts here, like asking questions no one can answer, like what's my music going to be now and now-then. . . I like when he lands at the middle register after the bass on a major second, the bass idea always returns, again it weighgs things down, allowing the flights-ripplings to get OFF, the octaves almost sound out of tune within the context of what is being played here,like our ears get accustom acclimitizes to cluster, fistfulls of notes, when a pure octave sounds, it sounds unusual, Weird is not the Word, perhaps like octaves are the "Other" like tones from another globe within another context I guess. We get down again in Part Two to usual fair violent scourings but he holds this down keeps a lid on the register, more clusters than Part One.

 Should we always say Cecil Solo is better than all else, even though the drummers and bass players he has had stay with him, and foment re-create what he is doing.Come One Listen! There is great clarity as well in the recording, enough to know this is a Boesendorfer piano Grand.
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Ronnie Cuber - Ronnie's Trio (SteepleChase Productions ApS May 4, 2018)


Ronnie Cuber (b. Dec. 25, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York), recognized as one of the most important baritone saxophonists in jazz today, has been composing, arranging and leading his own groups since 1959. 

 His powerful command of the instrument led him to perform and record with amazing array of influential artists in almost all thinkable range of musical spectrum. Yet, this is the very first of basic jazz trio album by Ronnie Cuber, which should have a special place in his discography.

 "There is not one of his records that contains any half-hearted playing or musical skating. When he plays, it's serious creative business and he tells a story. If you pick up anything under Cuber's name, you're guaranteed a winner...This recording is one of the most vivid and personal saxophone playing ever done on a baritone saxophone...a shining example of Cuber's big, beefy baritone sax tone and a fluent technique that is a one of a kind match between the gritty, down-home feeling of R&B and the advanced harmonies of bebop." - JazzTimes on 'Ronnie' (SCCD31680)
1. Silver's Serenade
2. What Is This Thing Called Love
3. St. Thomas
4. Jean-Marie
5. Body And Soul
6. The Jody Grind
7. Just Squeeze Me
8. Bernie's Tune
9. Só Danço Samba
10. Honeysuckle Rose
11. All The Things You Are
12. Lover Come Back To Me

Ronnie Cuber (baritone saxophone)
Jay Anderson (bass)
Adam Nussbaum (drums)

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Pieter Bast E.S.P. Quintet - La Condition Humaine (BUZZ May 4, 2018)


"La Condition Humaine" is the second album from The Pieter Bast E.S.P. Quintet: Jaspen Somsen, Pieter Bast, Bert Lochs, Michael Rörby and Mike Roelofs.

 The second CD from the Pieter Bast E.S.P. (European Standards Project) Quintet: "La Condition Humaine" features all original compositions. It is an album full of the personal thoughts, ideas, experiences and memories of each of the band-members, resulting in 8 beautiful pieces containing elements of African music, Contemporary Jazz and Bebop, but also referring to the "Electric" period of Miles Davis during the '70 & '80's.

 The music on the album is intense, full of tenderness and desire, but also sometimes rough, heavy and exciting with a unique frontline of trumpet and trombone. With "La Condition Humaine" the artists wanted to express their concern of today's world and the album is meant as a counterweight to the misery caused by mankind itself. To further accentuate this powerful, positive and hopeful message, the quintet is donating part of the proceeds from the sale of this CD to "Sounds of Change", an organization that brings the healing power of music to traumatised children from areas of conflict.


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HBH Trio with Julian Priester - Signals From The Mind (SLAM PRODUCTIONS 2018)



"Signals From The Mind" is the second SLAM CD by HBH Trio, this time featuring special guest Chicagoan trombonist Julian Priester, a long time colleague of David Haney.

Signal 1 - 7:55
Signal 2 - 9:51
Signal 3 - 10:54
Signal 4 - 7:45
Signal 5 - 10:06
Signal 6 - 9:40
Signal 7 - 10:10

David Bajda, Acoustic Guitar
Jorge Hernaez, Acoustic Bass
David Haney, Piano
Julian Priester, Trombone

Recorded at Classic Pianos, Portland Oregon, June 26, 2017. All material spontaneously composed by Bajda, Hernaez, Haney, Priester

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