Snarky Puppy - Culcha Vulcha (2016)

Source & Label: GroundUp Music

Fresh off of the heels of its tenth album, Family Dinner - Volume Two, the band is returning to its roots as an instrumental ensemble with a brand new collection of nine original songs. A departure from its signature live-from-the-studio film and audio style, the band spent a week in the middle of a pecan orchard at the remote Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas, just a five minute walk from the Mexican border. With no cameras, no audience, and the opportunity to overdub, they have crafted an album much darker and moodier than any before it. The typical flash and bombastic moments that Snarky Puppy is known for have been replaced by a more patient, restrained, and sonically creative approach to both composition and performance. The melodies are intricate, the counterpoint is fluid, and groove reigns supreme in mixes that are bass and percussion-heavy.  

1. Tarova
2. Semente
3. Gemini
4. Grown folks
5. Beep box
6. Gø
7. The simple life
8. Palermo
9. Big ugly

Michael League: Bass, Composer, Bandleader
Bill Laurance: Keyboards
Justin Stanton: Trumpet, Keyboards
Shaun Martin: Keyboards
Bob Lanzetti: Guitar
Mark Lettieri: Guitar
Chris McQueen: Guitar
Mike Maher: Trumpet
Jay Jennings: Trumpet
Chris Bullock: Tenor Sax, Flute, Clarinet
Bob Reynolds: Saxophone
Nate Werth: Percussion
Robert "Sput" Searight: Drums
Cory Henry: Keyboards

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Yiorgos Fakanas - Acrobat (2016)

Label: Ana Music

Source: Rock 'n' Roll Monuments

«Το έργο αυτό είναι γεμάτο Φως, έτσι θέλω να πιστεύω, αφού άλλωστε οι λέξεις Όραμα και Ελπίδα ήταν πάντοτε αυτές που καθοδηγούσαν τη Ζωή μου» δηλώνει ο δημιουργός Γιώργος Φακανάς. Και συνεχίζει εξηγώντας τον γενικό τίτλο της παρουσιαζόμενης, νέας κυκλοφορίας του ως εξής: «η μουσική που γράφουμε εμείς, για εδώ που ζούμε, στην Ελλάδα, ήταν, είναι και θα είναι πάντοτε δυστυχώς μια διαρκής ακροβασία. Είναι η ακροβασία που συμβαίνει σε κάθε δημιουργό ο οποίος σκεπτόμενος το επόμενό του βήμα, ακροβατεί με τα συναισθήματά του, ακροβατεί με τις ιδέες του μα και με αυτό καθαυτό το τελικό αποτέλεσμα…».

Με το φετινό του διεθνές κύημα ο αστείρευτος, χειμαρρώδης Φακανάς συνεχίζει το δύσβατο μοναχικό του μονοπάτι που τον θέλει να οδηγεί της jazz fusion στη χώρα μας, έχοντας για άλλη μια φορά δίπλα του επώνυμους ήρωές μας που συμπληρώνουν, ως επίτιμοι καλεσμένοι, τη σύναξη γιγάντων της ντόπιας σκηνής όπως οι Κοντραφούρης, Πατερέλης, Lynch, Ανδρέου, Marlieri. Και είναι γλυκόπικρη εδώ η παρουσία του αείμνηστου Lew Soloff στην τρομπέτα, αφού αποτελεί το τελευταίο δισκογράφημα του… Ο Dennis Chambers για άλλη μια φορά εντυπωσιάζει ακόμη και τους πιο υποψιασμένους από εμάς, πραγματοποιώντας μια από τις πιο περιπετειώδεις συμμετοχές του ever, διεκπεραιώνοντας παρτιτούρες σαν κι αυτές του Γιώργου για τις οποίες ο Stern δηλώνει: «η μουσικές του Γιώργου ανέκαθεν ήταν για μένα μια κλωτσιά στον κώλο, μια νέα πρόκληση που με θέλει να εξωθώ τα όριά μου και μέσα από αυτό, να περνάω πανέμορφα! Και αυτό που με εντυπωσιάζει εδώ όπως πάντα άλλωστε, είναι το χάρισμα του αυτοδίδακτου Dennis που δεν ξέρει να διαβάζει παρτιτούρες, και όμως για άλλη μια φορά με αποσβολώνει παίζοντας τις κάλτσες του!»…

Οι οκτώ πρωτότυπες συνθέσεις του δημιουργού έχουν γεννηθεί την τελευταία δεκαετία και συμπληρώνονται εδώ με τη σουίτα “No Princes, No Island, No God” που αποτελείται από τέσσερα μέρη και κλείνει φαντασμαγορικά την αυλαία του Acrobat, όπως και μια ευφάνταστη διασκευή του “Chameleon” που ανήκει στον Herbie Hancock. Η παραγωγή τέλος κρίνεται έως και υποδειγματική, τοποθετώντας το εν λόγω εγχείρημα δικαιωματικά και ολοκληρωτικά στην αρένα της παγκόσμιας σκηνής του fusion.

1. Acrobat
2. Notos
3. Senza
4. The World of Fun
5. Breath
6. Chameleon
7. Avalon
8. Breath, Pt. 2
9. Oratios
10. No Princess, No Island, No God, Pt. 1
11. No Princess, No Island, No God, Pt. 2
12. No Princess, No Island, No God, Pt. 3
13. No Princess, No Island, No God, Pt. 4

Yiorgos Fakanas

Mike Stern

Dennis Chambers

Lew Soloff

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Butch Lacy / Jesper Løvdal / Kresten Osgood / Mark Dresser - Being Playing (2016)

PRESENT

Being Playing is a musical landscape that organically unfolds as a meditative story. The form is abstract and closer to the way of a modern classical composer than of straight ahead jazz.

This recording is a personal milestone for each of the musicians and opens up a new musical chapter in their musical odyssey.

The musicians come from different musical backgrounds, but do nevertheless have a clear mutual idea of how music has it’s own strong inner life, without the appearance of the musicians ego.

Mark Dresser is a legend in American improvised music and groundbreaking on the double bass, which he has given an entirely new voice. After many years of living in New York playing with Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Ray Andersson and John Zorn, he is now a professor at San Diego University where he met Butch Lacy 35 years ago.

Butch played at the time with Sarah Vaughan’s trio but shortly after he moved to Denmark where he has been living since. He has transformed the Danish jazz environment in many ways with his playing, as well as his charismatic teaching at conservatories all over the country. Butch Lacy has composed for both symphony orchestra and big band, and his Very Big Band. A combination of both was an important musical experiment in Denmark.

Jesper Løvdal is too young to have been taught by Butch Lacy in Copenhagen, but he was highly fascinated by his spiritual playing from a young age and has been playing duo with him for 10 years. When Mark Dresser, Butch Lacy and Jesper Løvdal met for a concert in Copenhagen where magic occurred from the first sound, it was a necessity to go into the studio and bring the young drummer that originally brought Butch and Jesper together, Kresten Osgood. Osgood has his roots in jazz but plays with an universal artistic expression which lives very much in the present moment, and melts together with the rest of the band.

Butch Lacy: piano

Jesper Løvdal: alto flute, tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet

Mark Dresser: bass

Kresten Osgood: drums

Wizard of Os

Lacy Dresser

Being

Playing

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Joëlle Léandre 10 - Can You Hear Me? (2016)

Source & Label: Ayler Records

This hybrid piece, where for the first time the musician has agreed to play the problematic role and function of ‘composer’, can be read both as a form of achievement and as a founding act.
Indeed, ‘composing’, as she makes it clear here, with the structure constantly generating and encouraging individual expression, is nothing else for her than a transposition to ‘another stage’ of the improviser’s gesture and a transfusion into a band’s plural entity of the complex spread of a thought both intimate and collective, made even more unique by its will to be shared. […] Because she constantly feeds all her experience as an improviser into her writing, Léandre has clearly created, with "Can You Hear Me?", a major milestone in her already illustrious career.
(from Stéphane Ollivier’s liner notes)  

1. Can You Hear Me? 04:45
2. Can You Hear Me? 05:28
3. Can You Hear Me? 04:35
4. Can You Hear Me? 06:47
5. Can You Hear Me? 05:51
6. Can You Hear Me? 06:15
7. Can You Hear Me? 06:45
8. Can You Hear Me? 03:29
9. Can You Hear Me? 04:10
10.Can You Hear Me? (complete) 48:09
   

Jean-Luc Cappozzo, trumpet
Alexandra Grimal, saxophones
Jean-Brice Godet, clarinets
Christiane Bopp, trombone
Guillaume Aknine, electric guitar
Théo Ceccaldi, violin
Séverine Morfin, viola
Valentin Ceccaldi, cello
Joëlle Léandre, double-bass
Florian Satche, drums, percussion

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Gary Fieldman - Grasp the Swallow's Tail (2016)

Label: Self Released

Source: Tap Space

Gary Fieldman, percussionist, composer, and music educator, currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he participates actively in its diverse and eclectic artistic community. As a Jazz player, Gary has performed and recorded widely. In addition to being a part of Tall Tale Trio, Gary is also a founding member of Know Orchestra (knoworchestra.com), and with this ensemble has recorded his CD-length narration with music composition, Ratty's Loving Surprise. Gary also has a collection of shorter compositions on compilation project Dimension Traveler. He has made two recordings with Armenian jazz ensemble Musaner (musaner.com) and can be found on labels including Biba, Sachimay, Innova, and also on Rotary Records with "Field Effect," the Gary Fieldman Quartet.

Gary was once a member of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra and the Portland (ME) Symphony Orchestra and continues to play regularly with these groups. He has taught in the Preparatory and Continuing Education Department of The New England Conservatory of Music since 1996.

Personal investigations of the jazz masters and the music of the European classical tradition have been mainstays in Mr. Fieldman's approach, which attempts to define commonality in seemingly diverse arenas. Gary studies Tai Chi and is presently busy working on his Theory of Everything. 

1. Grasp the Swallow's Tail
2. Can't Go Home
3. Hailstorm
4. Two Minutes an Hour
5. Darfur
6. The Sorcerer's Apprentice's Apprentice
7. Watch the Melting Glaciers
8. Hits Blues

Gary Fieldman: drums

Rest of the line-up unknown

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Andrea Molinari Quintet - L'Era Dell'Acquario (2014)

Label: Picanto Records

Source: Recensioni Musicali

Rm cerca di essere sempre in linea con le buone novità. Questa volta abbiamo addirittura preceduto la distribuzione di un disco che si presenta come molto interessante.
“L’era dell’Acquario” è un prodotto eccellente che danza continuamente in bilico tra il Jazz e molte altre ibridazioni.
Siamo stati letteralmente “rapiti” dalle citazioni ed i richiami affidati ai titoli delle composizioni, alla grafica della copertina del disco e dai continui ammiccamenti musicali dalle più disparate provenienze.: è un disco da ascoltare, leggere e tenere in mano con estremo piacere.
Il quintetto è guidato dal chitarrista Andrea Molinari nella sua prima prova discografica da leader; la formazione, sempre compatta ed efficace, riesce a mantenere alta l’attenzione dell’ascoltatore con un’improvvisazione levigata e controllata formalmente dalla magnifica scrittura del chitarrista.
Stupende le melodie. Read more...

 Vimana
655 AM
Il Carillon Di Fulci
Punjab
Like Silvestro
Dadi
Moma
L'era Dell'Acquario

Andrea Molinari | Chitarra
Logan Richardson | Sax alto
Domenico Sanna | Piano
Luca Fattorini | Contrabbasso
Marco Valeri | Batteria

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Morgan Guerin - The Saga (2016)

Label: Self Released

Source: Cdbaby

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Tea Time - Daniele D'Agaro Massimo De Mattia Giovanni Maier (2016)

Rudi Records New Realease

TEA TIME - RRJ1030 2016

Tea Time

Daniele D'Agaro

Massimo De Mattia

Giovanni Maier

Format CD

Cat No. RRJ1030 Barcode 8058456240336

Daniele D'Agaro (clarinet) Massimo De Mattia (flutes) Giovanni Maier (double bass). A trio consisting of some of the best Italian jazz improvisers caught in the middle of an intense three ways dialogue. A wide sound palette coming from the beautiful and peculiar combination of reeds flute and bass. Three expert musicians generating a great flow of music based on the balance of various shapes and densities. From quiet open zones through rather dense conversations. Creative Music at its best. Read More...

01. Mint (2:08)

02. Hip Rose (2:09)

03. Mango (5:45)

04. Sanddom (4:40)

05. Rooibos (7:18)

06. Cinnamon (4:35)

07. Licorice (4:20)

08. Ginger * (0:37)

09. Sage (6:44)

10. Blackcurrant ** (0:41)

11. Lemon *** (2:44)

12. Pomegranate (2:44)

Line Up 

Daniele D'Agaro, clarinet

Massimo De Mattia, flutes

Giovanni Maier, doublebass

Recording Information

All compositions by D’Agaro, De Mattia, Maier except * by Maier, ** by D’Agaro and *** by De Mattia

Recorded on February 13th 2016, by Massimo De Mattia, Udine

Mastered February 2016, by Giovanni Maier

Photo credit: Luca d’Agostino © Phocus Agency 

Art by Ale Sordi

RUDI RECORDS

Rudi Records is an indipendent record label. The main musical focus is improvised music like jazz, creative music, experimental, but also some original projects characterized by a strong musical authenticity. Read More...

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Atrìo with Rosario Giuliani & Javier Girotto - Live at Auditorium Parco della Musica (2016)

ATRÌO

Atrìo was born in 2012 with the meeting of three yooung musicians sharing the same passion for jazz in particular.

Along with their original compositions their repertoire ranges from reinterpretations of famous songs and jazz standards in a modern key.

They took part in several competitions and national festivals. In september 2015 the trio recorded their first live EP in Auditorium Parco della Musica de Roma, featuring J. Girotto and R. Giuliani as special guests.

Moreno Maugliani, drums

Dario Giacovelli, bass & effects

Gianluca Massetti, piano & keyboards

Special Guests

Rosario Giuliani, alto & soprano sax

Javier Girotto,saxes soprano-baritone, flute, bass clarinet

1. Giuseppe (Live)

2. Paese di Sabbia (feat. Rosario Giuliani) [Live]

3. L'Ultimo Volo (feat. Javier Girotto) [Live]

4. Enjoy the Silence (Live)

5. Hope Beyond Mediterranean Sea (feat. Rosario Giuliani, Javier Girotto) [Live]

6. Speranze (feat. Rosario Giuliani) [Live]

7. Sol (feat. Javier Girotto) [Live]

8. This Is (Live)

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GIORNATA INTERNAZIONALE UNESCO DEL JAZZ

COMPLEANNO DELLA CASA DEL JAZZ

Sabato 30 Aprile 2016

Casa del Jazz

viale di Porta Ardeatina, 55 Roma

Atrìo. ore 18

anteprima presentazione CD

Gianluca Massetti, pianoforte – Dario Giacovelli, basso – Moreno Maugliani, batteria

Gli “Atrìo.” nascono da una profonda amicizia connessa alla musica nel rispetto di tutti gli stili. La passione per il jazz è abbinata alla ricerca di melodie semplici e energia ritmica, con uno sguardo rivolto ai generi musicali contemporanei.

La formazione nasce nel 2013, i tre ragazzi hanno partecipato a diversi concorsi e festival nazionali e internazionali, a settembre 2015 hanno registrato il loro primo EP live all’Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma con ospiti Rosario Giuliani e Javier Girotto.

Il loro lavoro è incentrato sulla creazione di brani originali, mediante la quale intraprendono una ricerca di soluzioni ritmiche basate sul concetto di subordinazione e modulazione metrica. Parallelamente a questo processo, danno il loro personale tributo alla tradizione, lavorando su brani provenienti dal mondo jazzistico e popular.

Hanno detto di loro:

“… Sono rimasto subito colpito dalla cura del suono e pensiero compositivo personale e maturo. In questo nuovo progetto mi hanno confermato quelle che da subito mi sono apparse le loro principali qualità: ottima musica costruita su forti radici e spirito di sacrificio…” Rosario Giuliani

“…Quando ho incontrato per la prima volta gli Atrìo. sono stato catturato fin da subito dalla loro bravura e maturità ma anche dalla particolare coesione che si respira tra di loro. Tre musicisti di gran gusto, elevato controllo e ottima tecnica…” Javier Girotto

“… Il suono di questo trio è particolare e raffinato. Si sente la ricerca continua e la ritmica è quanto di meglio tra i giovani…” Amedeo Tommasi

“… Gli Atrìo. fanno musica che è pura energia. Energia ritmica ed energia melodica (…). Nell’avvicendarsi delle dinamiche c’è una consapevolezza musicale universale che cattura immediatamente chi ascolta…” Marco Siniscalco

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