Album Reviews

Jörg Brinkmann Trio - Ha!

Act 9662-2    ***Jörg Brinkmann (clo, effects), Oliver Maas (p, Fender R), Dirk-Peter Kölsch (d, glock, objects). Rec. 12 May 2007 and 25–26 January 2008The cello isn’t exactly regarded as one of the great jazz instruments, but trio leader Brinkmann bows and plucks with aplomb on this thoroughly engaging debut recording, at times causing his cello to hum like a particularly fat double bass, at others scratching and sawing as if participating in some avant-garde classical-music experiment. This...

JD Allen Trio - I Am I Am

Sunnyside SSC 1183    ****JD Allen (ts), Gregg August (b), Rudy Royston (d), Eric Revis (ghost b) and Gerald Cleaver (ghost d). Rec date not given JD Allen has recently become the tenor of choice for many two-horn groups in New York (including those of trumpeters Jeremy Pelt and David Weiss). But here, on his Sunnyside debut, he’s out on his own sans keyboards with just bass and drums. It’s worth pointing out that August is the talented bassist whose two albums as leader, both with Myron Walden...

Fieldwork - Door

Pi P126    ****Tyshawn Sorey (d), Steve Lehman (as) and Vijay Iyer (p). Rec. Brooklyn, 2007.

Jerry Bergonzi - Tenor Talk

Savant SCD 2093    ****Jerry Bergonzi (ts), Renato Chicco (p), Dave Santoro (b) and Andrea Michelutti (d). Rec. date not given

July 2008 CD Reviews - Jazz And Beyond

CDs reviewed in the July 2008 issue Acoustic Triangle - 3 Dimensions (Audio-b ABCD 5024), Michael Adkins Quartet - Rotator (hatOLOGY660), Mina Agossi - Simple Things  (Candid Records CCD 78964), Monty Alexander - The Good Life (Chesky SACD340), Django Bates and StoRMChaser - Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?) (Lost Marble LM0030, Belmondo and Milton Nascimento - Belmondo and Milton Nascimento (B Flat 2008 LC14845), Massimo Biolcati – Persona (Obliqsound 823889950927), Ketil Bjørnstad, Randi...

Jimmy Smith - Live at the Village Gate

Verve 92785 & 92787     ***Smith (B3 org), Quentin Warren (g) and Billy Hart (d). Rec 1957Electrifyin’Properbox 139     ***Smith (B3 org) leading groups featuring Donald Byrd or Lee Morgan (t), Curtis Fuller (tb), Lou Donaldson or George Coleman (as), Thornel Schwartz, Kenny Burrell or Eddie McFadden (g), Art Blakey or Donald Bailey (d). Rec. 1956-7

Django Bates and StoRMChaser - Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)

Lost Marble LM003     ****Django Bates (ky, Eb horn, v), Stuart Hall (g), Michael Mondesir (b), Martin France (d), RMC International Choir (v), Josephine Lindstrand, Elena Setien, Yeregui (v) and StoRMChaser: Julie Kjaer (fl, picc), Bo Skold Christensen, Clars Anders, Aske Drasbek, Marius Neset, Martin Stender, Johann Bylling Lang (s, fl), Jimmy Nyborg, Ulrik Kofoed, Kevin Christensen, Andre Jensen, Daniel Herskedal (brass), Christian Bluhme (g), Petter Eldh (b), Anton Eger (d) and Mikkel...

Taylor Eigisti - Let it Come to YouTaylor Eigisti - Let it Come to You

Concord ***Taylor Eigisti (p, kys), Julian Lage (g), Reuben Rogers (b), Eric Harland (d), Harish Raghavan (b) and Aaron McLendon (d) plus Joshua Redman (s), Edmar Castaneda (Columbian Harp), Dayna Stephens (ts), Ben Wendel (ts) and Evan Francis (fl). Rec. date not stated

June 2008 CD Reviews - Jazz And Beyond

New ReleasesMisha Alperin - Her First Dance (ECM), Debashish Bhattacharya - Calcutta Chronicles – Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey  (Riverboat Records), Chris Beier - Aeolian Green (ACT), Brian Blade Fellowship - Season Of Changes (Verve), Blink (pictured) - Blink  (Loop Records), Avishai Cohen Trio  - Gently Disturbed (Razdaz Recordz), Carsten Daerr Trio - Insomniac Wonderworld (Traumton Records), Dave Douglas and Keystone – Moonshine (Greenleaf Music), Alex Eberhard Trio - Pelican Rising...

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