Reviews that mention Charlotte Keeffe
January 8, 2022
16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll Ballot 2021
ArtsFuse/Hullworks
Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)
Choices
NEW RELEASES
1. Joëlle Léandre, Beauty/Resistance (Not Two)
2. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
3. Tom Ward-Martina Verhoeven-Dirk Serries-Cath Roberts, Imaginary Junction (A New Wave of Jazz)
4. KORR, Tombé De La Voûte (We Insist)
5. Bertrand Gauguet & John Tilbury, Contre-Courbes (Akousis)
6. Punkt.Vrt.Plastik, Somit (Intakt)
7. Flow Trio With Joe McPhee, Winter Garden (ESP-Disk)
8. Umlaut Big Band, Mary's Ideas (Umlaut) MORE
January 8, 2022
El Intruso 14th Annual International Critics Poll
2021 Ballot
Ken Waxman JazzWord Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Choices
Album of the year: Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (New World)
Musician of the year Kris Davis, Ivo Perelman
Newcomer Musician: Charlotte Keefe (trumpet)
Group of the year: Umlaut Big Band
Newcomer group: Square Peg: Gordon Grdina, Shazad Ismall, Christain Lillinger
Composer: David Sanford, Elliott Sharp, Michael Formanek
Drums: Günter Baby Sommer, Carlo Costa, Peter Orins
Acoustic Bass: Barry Guy, Joëlle Léandre MORE
October 7, 2021
Right Here, Right Now
Discus Music 107 CD
More like a CV or in contemporary terms a LinkedIn page, British trumpeter/flugelhornist Charlotte Keeffe provides a comprehensive resumé of her skills during this CD’s nine tracks. That means she’s featured playing solo, in duo, leading a quartet and playing and conducting the London Improvisers Orchestra. (LIO) There’s impressive work throughout, but like the person who provides too much detail on a job application, a tighter focus would be preferable.
As it is she demonstrates conclusively that she can maintain her capillary authority in free improvisations with guitarist Diego Sampieri and playing solo. Swaying against the guitarist’s delicate finger picking, she positions her slurring exposition with mutes, half-valve and other effects. On her own she invokes electronics for intricate live sampling and timbre multiplication that allow her to cascade bugling tones on one track and otherwise communicate the essence of “The Melody’s in the Post” with warm expansions of tangents and textures. The three tracks with guitarist Moss Freed, bassist Ashley John Long and drummer Ben Handysides build on the quartet’s strengths with plunger blasts or shifted shading prodding the guitarist to counter her expositions with staccato string stings, intense strums or frails. “A Horse Named Galaxy” adds a swing feel with Keeffe’s brassy spurts indicating Bop, Cool and Free tropes as the double bass thumps and Freed doubles the brass player’s part with clucking rhythm guitar work. MORE
July 11, 2020
Anthropology Band
Discus 90 CD
Webber/Morris Big Band
Both Are True
Greenleaf Music GRE CD 1075
Vladimir Tarasov & Krugly Band Orchestra
Sound Tapestries
SoLyd Records SLR 0440
Fire! Orchestra
Krysztof Penderecki Actions
Rune Grammofon RCD 2212
Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra
If You Listen Carefully the Music Is Yours
ODIN CD 9572
Something in the air Novel Large Ensemble Strategies are expressed by Bands All over the World
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