Ny måned og nye muligheter. Høsten er virkelig kommet, og det er tid for å krype inn i varmen for å høre god musikk, enten hjemme, på kontoret eller, aller helst, live ute på en klubb eller i en konsertsal. For det er her musikken er best!
Men de europeiske jazzredaktører har valgt sine favoritter, eller de platene som surrer mest på anlegget for tiden, og her er hva de har plukket ut for å gjøre oktober til en måned full av musikk:
Viktor Bensusan, jazzdergisi.com:
CHRISTOS RAFALIDES TRIO Near & Dear (Emarel Music)
Henning Bolte, Jazzism:
MÁRIO COSTA w/Marc Ducret Benoït Delbecq Oxy Patina (Clean Feed)
Patrik Sandberg, OrkesterJournalen:
SOUNDSCAPE ORCHESTRA Nexus (Do Music Records)
Cim Meyer, JazzSpecial:
JEFF DENSON QUARTET Concentric Circles (Ridgeway Records)
Lars Mossefinn, Dag og tid:
MØSTER! States of Minds (Hubro)
Axel Stinshoff, Jazz thing:
WAYNE SHORTER Emanon (Blue Note)
Luca Vitali, Giornale della Musica:
VIFNATO/P. MIRRA/G. PACORIG/Z. DE ROSSI/H. ROBERTS Pipe Dream (CAM Jazz)
Madli-Liis Parts , Muusika:
SOOÄÄR/YARALYAN/OUNASKARI A Shooting star (O-Tone Music)
Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum:
JAN PTAZYN WRÓBLEWSKI SEXTET Komeda. Moja słodka europejska ojczyzna – Polish Jazz vol. 80 (Polskie Nagrania)
Mike Flynn, Jazzwise:
TYSHAWN SOREY Pillars (Firehouse 12)
Anna Filipieva, Jazz.Ru:
LRK Trio Urban Dreamer (Losen Records)
Jan Granlie, salt-peanuts.eu:
MARC RIBOT Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 (ANTI-Records)
Christine Stephan, JAZZTHETIK:
VINCENT PEIRANI LIVING BEING II Night Walker (ACT)
Why did I choose:
Cim Meyer:
Comment: Paul Hanson (bassoon), Dan Zemelmann (p), Jeff Denson (b, voc, comp), Alan Hall (d). It’s not every day you hear such an equilibristic bassoon player in a jazz context. Rather hard-boiled music in brisk tempos. Unfortunately the sound has been quite compressed in the mastering. Nevertheless compelling music.
Victor Bensusan:
A vibraphonist is not very common among instrumentalists, a vibraphone trio, though remarkable in jazz history, is not commonplace and finally, a Greek vibraphonist’s trio is a rarity if not the first of its kind. From the trio concept of Red Norvo to the 4 mallets of Gary Burton, Rafalides pays tribute to his masters contextually. The content, on the other hand is unique and like the album’s title suggests; near to us and very dear to him.
Paweł Brodowski:
“Meine süsse Europäische Heimat: Dichtung und jazz aus Polen” was Krzysztof Komeda’s third and last album before his departure to America and his untmely death at age 38. Recorded in Germany in 1967, it featured a stellar lineup, including Tomasz Stanko and Zbigniew Namysłowski, and a German actor reciting poems by great Polish poets, such as the future Nobel prize winners Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska.
Now, a half a century later, this music (13 original compositions, but without poetry) surfaces in fresh and inspired instrumental renditions on this brand new album by veteran saxophonist Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski (Komeda’s old colleague) and his Sextet with top Polish jazz musicians of today. Relasesed in the venerable Polish Jazz series, it is a double album. Disc1 is a studio session (2013), disc 2– a concert recording (2016) of the same material, but with thoroughly different interpretations. A gem.
Jan Granlie:
The best anti-Trump record until now. Highlight: Tom Waits is doing «Bela Ciao», a fantastic combination of Ribot songs and traditional anti-fascist songs. A «must have»-record, with singers like Waits, Steve Earle, Fay Victor, Meshell Ndgeochello a.o.
Mike Flynn:
The perfect antidote to all the ‘epic-ness’ of some jazz albums lately – a huge three hour meditation – Sorey’s vision is huge.
