Holding down the engine room are Chris Lightcap on bass, Kenneth Salters on drums and a guest, Rogerio Boccato, on percussion.īassist Stephan Crump, tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and pianist Cory Smythe each inhabit slightly different coordinates on the avant-garde landscape, but with enough overlap that they can easily find common ground. His new album features a number of longtime associates, with saxophonists Tim Armacost, Adam Kolker, Dayna Stephens and Billy Drewes in a knockout front line.
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Giddens and Turrisi will be on tour in the fall they’ll also appear with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from April 25-27, as part of a celebration for Ken Burns’ upcoming series Country Music.Īn alert pianist and a resourceful composer, David Berkman has long been drawn to the dimensions of a midsize combo. Produced by Joe Henry, it’s a spare yet fully fleshed showcase for Giddens and Turrisi, whose musical rapport feels as natural as breath. One, “I’m On My Way,” was just released as the first single from there is no Other, which Nonesuch will release on May 3. The music, so intimate in scale for such a grand kinetic production, has the effect of further personalizing Williams’ narrative, and underscoring the folk traditions that flow through our history like a stream underground.Ī few of the songs in Lucy Negro, Redux were familiar to me, as traditional folk material or previously recorded work by Giddens. Turrisi attends to a frame drum, lute and piano, to name just a few. Giddens, a MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed singer-songwriter, plays an assortment of stringed instruments in the piece (including minstrel banjo and octave violin). It’s also a contemplative musical experience, featuring a “folk score” performed onstage. With brilliant choreography (by Paul Vasterling) and spectacular dancing (especially by Kayla Rowser), the performance is a balletic tour de force and a cultural provocation. Lucy Negro, Redux - an acclaimed new collaboration between the Nashville Ballet, poet Caroline Randall Williams, and composer-instrumentalists Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi - explores the idea that Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady of the Sonnets” was in fact a black woman. (The Jazz Night video team also shot a couple of concerts I won’t spoil the surprise.)īut the very first thing I saw at Big Ears this year was a special highlight, and a perfect way to hit the ground running. Jazz Night in America will devote a forthcoming episode to Big Ears, with an emphasis on the ECM Records artists convened to celebrate the label’s 50th anniversary. I heard a fantastic array of music - everything from breakout British electro-jazz trio The Comet is Coming to a solo bass recital by Larry Grenadier. The Big Ears Festival, which wrapped up its 2019 edition over the weekend, is a feast of sound and spirit, with the promise of discovery around every corner. Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, “I’m On My Way”
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