EUROPE JAZZ MEDIA CHART – OCTOBER 2019
Die Jazzmusik Schreiber haben ihre Lieblinge für den Oktober gewählt. Mit dabei sind u.a. QÖÖLP, POKAZ TRIO, ALICE ZAWADZKI, MART SOO AND KULGEJAD, LOUIS SCLAVIS, MAX AGNAS TRIO …
PER TEXAS JOHANSSON: Stråk på himlen och stora hus (Moserobie)
MAX AGNAS TRIO: Komposition VII (Loumi Records)
LOUIS SCLAVIS: Characters On A Wall (ECM)
JAIMIE BRANCH: Fly or Die 2 – bird dogs of paradise (International Anthem)
ØYVIND SKARBØ – SKARBØ SKULEKORPS: Skarbø Skulekorps (HUBRO Music)
MART SOO AND KULGEJAD: Kulg II (Mart Soo)
MAREK NAPIÓRKOWSKI: Hipokamp (Agora)
Marek Napiórkowski has been for years considered Poland’s top jazz guitarist, a successor to the sadly departed Jarek Śmietana. His newest album “HIPOKAMP” offers a fresh and exciting mix of „sophisticated jazz improvisations with the world of electronic sound structures, progressive rock, ethno and funk”. The electric guitar virtuoso is joined by top Polish players – Jan Smoczyński on synthesizers, Paweł Dobrowolski on drums, special guest Adam Pierończyk on saxophones, and Brazil’s precussion master Luis Ribeiro.
ALICE ZAWADZKI: Within You Is A World Of Spring (Whirlwind Recordings)
MAKAR KASHITSYN: Jazz Animals (Rainy Days Records)
THE WAY OUT: Yes We Are (Insulamusic)
Why the hell? „The Mad Professor“ Torsten Høeg runs this quartet of young musicians, into the world of popish jazz with roots in South Africa and the world of Albert Ayler and the others masters.
TRILLMANN: Live (Tangible Music)
POKAZ TRIO: Kintsugi (Losen Records)
QÖÖLP: qÖÖlp (BMC)
Why is qÖÖlp such a good combination of musicians, why is the music of this album such a marvelous, convincing throw, a throw immediately clicking in and firing full salvo? There is much good music around, but this is the exponentially best I met this time. The line-up of three string instruments, violin, cello, 7-strings guitar and drums give a hint already. The musicians on it totally make it (happen): the notorious Ceccaldi bros. (Sicilian roots), beautiful and wild, a stunning, dryly electrifying Ronny Graupe, and a here totally unbeatable Lillinger operating from deep inside with his unrelenting hyper-rapidly squirreling strokes. That means interlocking heavy gangue and finest chiselling. It blows, bangs and crashes, it rumbles and shrieks, dreams calmly and jubilates in highest pitch with Affenzahn, breakneck speed. The wolves join in, howling passionately with snouts raised. These four musicians meet and reinforce each other in high energy dynamics as well as structural equilibrity and clarity, naturally and with exhilarating results.