Month: December 2019

Mareike Wiening: Metropolis Paradise

Drummer Mareike Wiening leads a richly lyrical post bop team of Rich Perry/ts, Den Tepfer/p, Alex Goodman/g and Johannes Felscher/dr through eight impressively wide-ranging originals. She shows taste and style on the brushes as she supports Perry’s gently yearning tenor…

Franck Amsallem: Gotham Goodbye

French pianist Franck Amsallem teams with large toned tenor saxist Irving Acao, bassist Viktor Nyberg and drummer Gautier Garrigue for eight thoughtful originals and a cover. Of the latter, Acao mourns and sighs on the deep reeds of “Last Night…

Guillaume Muller: Sketches of Sound

Guitarist Guillaume creates quiet reflections with Nino Wenger/as, Jim Funnell/p, Gui Duvignau/b and Josh Bailey/dr on this collection of (mostly) originals. Muller’s tone is mostly clean and cool, gentle with Bailey’s brushes on “Lullaby for a Copybara” and calm on…

Olli Hirvonen: Displace

Finnish born guitarist Olli Hirvonen mixes up sounds with his quartet of Luke Marantz/p, Mary Kenney /b and Nathan Ellman-Bell/dr with sounds ranging to gentle folk to rock, all linked by jazz sensibilities. Plugged in, Hirvonen hits hard on the…