jueves, 1 de noviembre de 2012
The Antlers
Leo Wright
Hampton Hawes
Dexter Gordon
Philippe de Monte
miércoles, 31 de octubre de 2012
Erik Truffaz
Jack
Arvo Pärt
martes, 13 de diciembre de 2011
Wes Montgomery
ROAD SONG, originally issued as A&M SP 3012, CTI series, was recorded a month before Wes Montgomery died of a heart attack on June 15, 1968 at age 45 and relesed posthumously. The title song and "Serene," named in honor of his wife, were written by Wes. Other outstanding tracks are "Scarborough Fair" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?." Superb guitar playing, as always. Listening to this makes one wonder what more he would have accomplished had he not died so young. It's hard to name all the artists he's influenced. As the liner notes state: "This is the last one. Be glad we have it. If this isn't jazz, then what is? Just because he didn't play the same old standards (pop song from the 30's and 40's) critics gave him hell. I'm an organ player with a love for guitar and I know that the way he play's the octave strums so clean he is the master of this style. The tunes are very touching and short. Some you may know ( Yesterday, Where Have All the Flowers Gone). The originals are clasic (Road Song, Serene). The album is complemented with strings and some tunes are in the baroque style. Don Sebesky did the conducting and arranging. Not to mention Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Grady Tate and a host of other great musicians support Wes in the most classy manner. The album is about 30 min. long. but it says a life time in such a short time. By J.B Bent
lunes, 12 de diciembre de 2011
Madrugada
Industrial Silence is the debut album of the Norwegian alternative rock band Madrugada in 1999. The best known track of the album is the ballad Vocal.From the album also exist a limited edition including 2 discs, and a remastered Deluxe edition of the album was released on July 5, 2010. Disc 2 of the remastered Deluxe edition contains 4 previously unrelased demo recordings, and also has tracks from all their early EPs. The remastering was done by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York.Madrugada was a Norwegian rock band formed in the town of Stokmarknes 1992. The band members included Frode Jacobsen (bass), Sivert Høyem (vocals) and Robert Burås (guitar). After the death of Burås on July 12, 2007 Høyem and Jacobsen decided to finish recording their latest album. The album, entitled Madrugada, was released on January 21, 2008. After the release of the album the band announced they would split after one last tour. They performed their last ever concert on November 15, 2008 at Oslo Spektrum in Oslo-Norway.Industrial Silence is unusually strong and even for a debut album. This, of course, has to do with the fact that they already had been playing together for six years before its release. It kicks off with the majestic "Vocal," with its dense and thick guitar sound and singer Sivert Høyem's distinctive crooning on top of it all. What's really impressive on this album, besides the quality of the songs, is guitarist Robert Burås' creative and versatile playing. From Jim´s World of Music.
sábado, 10 de diciembre de 2011
Nils Petter Molvær
Molvaer's new album "Baboon Moon" marks the self-assured new start of a musician who has already travelled a long way. He began his career in the bands of Jon Christensen and Arild Andersen, but gradually broke out more and more beyond the confines of jazz, starting with his 1997 album "Khmer". His musical journey took him through a wide variety of styles, and he tried out different degrees of abstraction along the way. He experimented together with musicians like Bill Laswell, Sidsel Endresen and Eivind Aarset, and surrounded himself with DJ's and VJ's, but he also worked on his own. His language of expression remained vivid throughout. On his last album, "Hamada", he switched to and fro between very harmonious and extremely brutal passages, while on "Baboon Moon" these two opposite poles blend into a unified whole again.Molvaer's new album "Baboon Moon" marks the self-assured new start of a musician who has already travelled a long way. He began his career in the bands of Jon Christensen and Arild Andersen, but gradually broke out more and more beyond the confines of jazz, starting with his 1997 album "Khmer". His musical journey took him through a wide variety of styles, and he tried out different degrees of abstraction along the way. He experimented together with musicians like Bill Laswell, Sidsel Endresen and Eivind Aarset, and surrounded himself with DJ's and VJ's, but he also worked on his own. His language of expression remained vivid throughout. On his last album, "Hamada", he switched to and fro between very harmonious and extremely brutal passages, while on "Baboon Moon" these two opposite poles blend into a unified whole again.In order to arrive at this point, he formed a new band. His two fellow players on "Baboon Moon" have come to jazz 'through the back door', as it were. Stian Westerhus is one of Europe's most innovative, and in the meantime most sought-after guitarists. A former member of the post-rock band Jaga Jazzist, he runs the industrial-improv duo Monolithic together with Motorpsycho drummer Kenneth Kapstad. For Westerhus, the electric guitar is not just an instrument: it's a whole orchestra, a creative museum of physical and spiritual possibilities for producing electronic sounds. He manipulates his instrument with every conceivable material and effect, and even produces indefinable sounds by shouting into the strings. Erland Dahlen has played his way into the hearts of alternative-rock fans as drummer of the Norwegian psychoblues band Madrugada. He contributed this deep and earthy but also progressive blues feeling to Eivind Aarset's Sonic Codex Orchestra first of all, and now he brings it to Molvaer's trio.From nilspettermolvaer.info
martes, 29 de noviembre de 2011
Gustavo Santaolalla
martes, 3 de mayo de 2011
Ludovico Einaudi & Ballaké Sissoko

jueves, 28 de abril de 2011
MobyDick

martes, 29 de marzo de 2011
Pink Floyd

Dino Saluzzi

John Surman & Chick Corea
No voy a decir que este disco tenga una audición fácil, quien jamás haya investigado en el jazz de vanguardia o directamente en experimentos musicales cercanos a la música de Messiaen o Berio entre otros, no encontrarán el mas mínimo atractivo a este álbum. Bass is es un experimento musical que un disco de jazz al uso. En este trabajo tanto el prestigioso saxofonista John Surman y el pianista Chick Corea, reunieron a cuatro de los mejores bajistas del momento para crear un cuarteto de cuerdas de lo mas peculiar, siendo elegidos el grandísimo Dave Holland, Peter Warren,Glen Moore y Jaime Faunt. Todos ellos interpretan las extrañas composiciones de Corea y Surman entre las percusiones de Barry Altshul, Steve Hauss y Stu Martin. El disco es extraño, complejo y diferente a todo el repertorio de los músicos mencionados. No es un disco de jazz al uso, simplemente es una nueva apuesta por crear una música diferente. El disco está producido por la casa italiana Enja.
lunes, 14 de marzo de 2011
Enrique Morente

domingo, 13 de marzo de 2011
Jesper Bodilsen

sábado, 12 de marzo de 2011
Pat Martino

Stefano Bollani Jesper Bodilsen & Morten Lund

Neil Young

viernes, 11 de marzo de 2011
John Scofield

jueves, 10 de marzo de 2011
Stafford James

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela

Tim Hagans

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Pierrick Pedron

jueves, 16 de diciembre de 2010
Pat Martino

Consciousness es el duodécimo disco del guitarrista Pat Martino, en este disco Martino se acerca al temperamento de John Coltrane,donde nos adentra desde el swing y el bop a una música y a un virtuosismo grandioso. Temas de acercamiento,al puro bop como Impressions,con unos fraseos ágiles y veloces,o una incursion introspectiva bellísima con temas como Passata on guitar. Arropado a su vez con sus habituales,Thyrone Brown al bajo,Eddie Green al piano y Sherman Ferguson a la batería. El disco es una pequeña joya editada por la casa Muse.
jueves, 9 de diciembre de 2010
Carlo Gestualdo

Carlo Gestualdo fue probablemente una de las figuras mas notorias de la música del renacimiento.Las excelentes relaciones de su familia con la Iglesia hicieron que su obra no sufriera ningún tipo de censura. Sus composiciones se salen de los cánones de la época: Gesualdo no tenía que agradar a nadie, escribía para sí mismo, el resultado fue una obra original, extraña y sorprendente en el Renacimiento. Fue así de extraña por su uso constante de la disonancia y del cromatismo, algo impensable para la época que veía en su seno el inicio de una protoarmonía tonal que en el barroco se desarrollará, como con el tratado de armonía de Rameau del año 1722.Por ello, Gesualdo es considerado un adelantado de su época. En este album editado por Naxos en el año 2004,se nos acerca a la música sacra de Gestualdo,interpretada por la Oxford Camerata bajo la batuta de Jeremy Summerly. Un excelente disco de música clásica.
Vic Chesnutt

North Star Deserter,sería el nombre que el cantante,compositor y guitarrista Vic Chesnutt diera a esta maravillosa colaboración junto al guitarrista y hombre fuerte de la formación Fugazi,y junto a los componentes de la formación canadiense de Post-Rock A Silver Mt.Zion. Si la voz y las composiciones de Chesnutt han creado conmoción en la escena musical contemporánea,este disco tampoco se queda muy lejos de los trabajos acusticos de Chesnutt. La música de este músico irrepetible hace llegar a unos estados,donde la nostalgia,la melancolía,la ira y la plegaría se transforman en una sola palabra,música. Música creada desde el corazón,musica que no cree en limitaciones físicas y que desnudan el alma. Desde la silla de ruedas en la que se vió,confinado desde que tenía 18 años,Chesnutt lanzó al mundo desde sus composiciones sus mensajes,siendo este disco uno de los mas maravillosos legados músicales del panorama musical de los últimos veinte años. Con una parálisis casi total y unos dolores fisicos,que cuando no disponía de su medicación llegaban al delírio,este maravilloso compositor realizó temas que se presentan en este album como Everything I Say ,(el cual se puede ver online en uno de sus últimas apariciones en vivo) o las maravillosas You Never Alone o Over. El disco fue grabado en el año 2007 para la Constellation Records. Un disco tremendo.
domingo, 5 de diciembre de 2010
Anouar Brahem

The Astounding eyes of Rita, es el último trabajo para la ECM del maestro laudista,Anouar Brahem. En este disco vuelve a sorprendernos con su personal estílo y sonido,volviendo a fusionar el world músic con la música neoclásica. En este disco adopta al magnífico clarinetista Klaus Gesing(un clásico ya dentro del sello),a Björn Meyer y al imprescindible Khaled Yasine a la darbouka. El disco nos acerca a albums de Brahem como Le Voyage de Sahar o Le pas du la chat noir. El disco fue grabado en el año 2009,siendo esta una de las últimas producciones del desaparecido Manfred Eicher.
lunes, 29 de noviembre de 2010
Charlie Haden Paul Motian & Geri Allen

miércoles, 11 de agosto de 2010
Hildur Gudnadóttir

lunes, 9 de agosto de 2010
September Malevolence

Otra banda de post rock nacida en el frío. September Malevolence es del mismo modo que EF,una agrupación nacida en la ciudad sueca de Goteborg. El sonido de September Malevolence puede que sea un poco mas oscuro que EF pero continuando con unos rifs templados,dotados de unas letras y unas melodías ligeras,no tan potentes como Daturah,Isis o Red Sparrowes. Digamos que la música de esta banda queda bien en cualquier momento, alejada de los rifs agresivos y violentos predominantes en el post rock. En Tommorrow We'll Wonder Where This Generation It's Priorities From, que así se llama este su segundo album de estudio,destaca esa sobriedad sello de esta banda,presentandonos siete temas de los cuales el último,titulado Nobody Noticed the Fire es donde sacan su capacidad para el jamming. En el corte tercero Distance-Closure es donde podemos escuchar el tema mas cañero del conjunto sueco. Un buen disco de Post Rock,grabado en el año 2006.
domingo, 8 de agosto de 2010
Joy Wants Eternity









