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Know Your ABC’s: An Album, a Book, and a Cat.
In which we learn about Storms/Nocturnes, Toadswart d’Amplestone, and Bea. STORMS / NOCTURNES – VIA Names have power. It gets to where it’s difficult to distinguish whether the name is derived from...
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Bill Frisell –“858 Quartet”
Crossposted from http://www.birdistheworm.com/. The last time Bill Frisell recorded an album with the 858 ensemble, things were a bit noisier. The 2002 recording Richter 858 had Frisell substituting...
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Lama –“Oneiros”
Don’t believe the opening notes of Lama‘s Oneiros… they’re a lie and they’ll steer you the wrong way. The pronounced bounce and charge of trumpet and bass is like a doorway into a confused Ringling...
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Anders Koppel –“Everything Is Subject to Change”
Marking Anders Koppel’s first solo Hammond organ release, Everything Is Subject to Change is an intriguing mix of atmospherics and organics. Pianist Kenny Werner and saxophonist Benjamin Koppel...
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Peter Broderick –“Float”
The music of multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick should be much busier. Bouncing from guitar to strings to keyboards to horns (to name a few), and shifting from folk to classical to indie pop to...
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Colin Vallon –“Rruga”
The ECM catalog is filled with piano trio albums of austerity and minimalism. For a piano trio to approach an album with a Doing More With Less minimalism is a daring venture, because the high risk is...
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Splashgirl –“Pressure”
The Nordic Jazz sound has situated itself solidly at a distance from Jazz’s epicenter… introspective, austere, with drifting melodies, and rhythms that often eschew swing for drama. And as musicians...
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