GIOVANNI GUIDI TRIO - THIS IS THE DAY
The Giovanni Guidi Trio plays jazz of uncommon originality and reflective depth. On their second ECM album, Italian pianist Guidi, US bassist Morgan, and Portuguese drummer Lobo continue the work begun on the 2011 recording City of Broken Dreams, with pensive, abstract ballads which shimmer with inner tension. Each of the players has a strong sense for the dialectics of sound and silence. The repertoire is mostly from Guidis pen, but also includes the standard, I m Through with Love, Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrés, Quizás, quizás, quizás (familiar to jazz listeners through, above all, Nat King Coles version), and Baiiia by João Lobo. The tio conists of:Giovanni Guidi (piano); Thomas Morgan (double bass); and João Lobo (drums). Recorded April 19-21, 2014 / RSI Lugano. Recording Engineer: Stefano Amerio; and produced by Manfred Eicher. ~ Amazon
JEFF BRADSHAW & FRIENDS - HOME: ONE SPECIAL NIGHT AT THE KIMMEL CENTER
Jeff
Bradshaw is an award winning trombone player, recording artist and bandleader
who has performed and recorded with Jill Scott, Jay Z, Michael Jackson, The
Roots, Marsha Ambrosius and many more. Jeff has been at the center of the Neo
soul movement that emerged out of Philadelphia, becoming an important
influencer of that eclectic scene. Like recent best sellers by Robert Glasper,
his two acclaimed solo albums have delivered a unique fusion of R&B, Jazz
and Gospel. For Home, which is co produced by Robert Glasper, Bradshaw brought
together a stellar lineup of great vocalists and musicians backed by a killer
20 piece band at Philadelphia s premiere arts venue, The Kimmel Center, for a
once in a lifetime performance recorded in front of a rapturous sold out
audience. Highlights include Kim Burrell s stunning 9 minute performance of
Love, Marsha Ambrosius emotional rendition of a previously unrecorded original
song, and Bilal s intense version of the Enchantment s classic Where Do We Go
From Here. The album includes a bonus cut studio version of All Time Love
featuring Tweet, Robert Glasper and Eric Roberson. ~Amazon
JULIAN LANGE - WORLD'S FAIR
2015
release, the first solo guitar album from Julian Lage. World's Fair is so
spontaneous and intimate in feel it's as if this prodigious guitarist had just
arrived in your living room, picked up his vintage Martin, and simply started
to play. It's very much a project created in the moment, a dozen acoustic
guitar tracks recorded over the course of a mere two days, at Sear Sound in New
York City. In concept, however, World's Fair was more than a year in the
making, as Lage gradually came to embrace the rich musical and emotive
possibilities within the austere format of one musician and one acoustic
guitar. The album title is a clue to Lage's intentions, the phrase conjuring up
a bygone hopeful vision of the future, a "tragic optimism," in Lage's
words, since the future never quite turned out as the presenters at those grand
expositions had predicted. The understated beauty of these tracks is laced with
a certain melancholy. World's Fair seems suspended in time, using the past as a
reference yet seeming somehow daring and contemporary in its unadorned
arrangements and unabashed melodicism. The mood is often contemplative but, at
times, on tracks like "Peru" and "Red Prairie Dawn" he
kicks the tempo up a notch, with his fingers scampering quickly across the
strings. ~Amazon
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