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Shai Maestro: The Guesthouse
by Neil Duggan
This is pianist Shai Maestro's second release since signing for Naive in 2025. The first, Solo: Miniatures & Tales (Naïve, 2025), was a personal exploration; in deliberate contrast, The Guesthouse is expansive, open and collaborative. Maestro describes the album as “my attempt to turn the creative chaos that lives in mind into one coherent artistic statement, always having a simple melody as a thread that tells the story of this collective." Inspired by Rumi's poem The Guesthouse, Maestro ...
Continue ReadingEmiliano D'Auria: The Baggage Room Vol.2 – Meanwhile
by Angelo Leonardi
Meanwhile è il secondo capitolo del progetto The Baggage Room, la svolta espressiva del pianista marchigiano, che fonde la vivacità ritmica e timbrica del jazz contemporaneo statunitense con l'impronta melodica già espressa nello Jano Quartet. Registrato a Monaco di Baviera nel novembre 2024, l'album conferma la presenza del trombettista Philip Dizack e del sassofonista Dayna Stephens ma introduce una nuova sezione ritmica, nelle figure di Jacopo Ferrazza al contrabbasso e Kush Abadey alla batteria. L'ispirazione iniziale ...
Continue ReadingEmiliano D'Auria: The Baggage Room
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo le atmosfere cantabili e un po' algide del precedente First Rain--registrato in Norvegia col suo stabile quintetto--Emiliano D'Auria va a New York e s'immerge nel tumulto jazzistico contemporaneo guidando una formazione col sassofonista Dayna Stephens, il trombettista Philip Dizack, il contrabbassista Rick Rosato e il batterista Kweku Sumbry. Anche se stilisticamente ha espresso affinità col jazz nord-europeo, il pianista e compositore marchigiano non ha smesso di seguire gli sviluppi di quello statunitense e in questo progetto ne ...
Continue ReadingRemy Le Boeuf: Heartland Radio
by Angelo Leonardi
Nel 2022 Remy Le Boeuf s'è trasferito da New York a Denver per dirigere il dipartimento “Jazz and Commercial Studies" presso la Lamont School of Music della locale università. La colonna sonora di quel lungo viaggio in autostrada è stata la musica delle radio che alternavano pop, rock, rhythm & blues, country, dance ed altro. “Non c'è molto jazz in mezzo al Paese" ha ricordato l'orchestratore e sassofonista ma la musica di quest'album (che riflette le emozioni di quell'itinerario) ...
Continue ReadingOrlando le Fleming & Romantic Funk: Wandering Talk
by Chris May
Wandering Talk is the second part of a project from British bassist Orlando le Fleming which began with Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar (Whirlwind, 2020). The album convincingly brings together the acoustic jazz tradition and the lush but muscular electric fusion which emerged in the 1980s. Not for nothing is one of le Fleming's heroes, paid tribute to on both albums, Wayne Shorter, a master of acoustic jazz and an architect of electric fusion. Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar ...
Continue ReadingRemy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio
by Dan Bilawsky
This ear-grabbing date from Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows--the band's third release, following its eponymous debut (in 2019) and Architecture of Storms (SoundSpore Records, 2021)--is a sonic mirror, reflecting the multihyphenate leader's recent travels in both life and sound. Influenced by an odyssey across inland America, sights encountered along the way, and the adventitious, airwaves-dictated soundtrack to the journey, Heartland Radio offers up a striking portrait of a Promethean artist with an unfettered imagination. Opening on ...
Continue ReadingRemy Le Boeuf: Architecture of Storms
by Jack Bowers
It's hard to become bored or complacent when listening to Architecture of Storms, alto saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf's second album as leader of the twenty-member Assembly of Shadows orchestra. Every song is quite different from the others, and every one has its moments of shapeliness and charm. Le Boeuf arranged every number and composed all but Justin Vernon's “Minnesota, WI" and the album's nameplate, which he co-wrote with poet Sara Pirkle, he asserts, “on a brooding stormy ...
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