Blue - Nelson Rangell (2015)

Blue
Artist: Nelson Rangell (flute)
Genre : jazz, pop, smooth jazz, classical
Label : Nelson Rangell
Released : February 2015
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American saxophonist and flutist Nelson Rangell pulled out two albums in year 2015. In this review I am gonna talk about one of the album, the one titled as "Blue". Blue is full length instrumental flute album with jazz as the backbone genre. The album featured amazing virtuosity over the instrument. Nelson Rangell who primary is a sax, recorded dozen of saxophone jazz album in which he inserted one or two track featuring him playing the flute. Blue is finally his first album with flute as lead instrument. For your information, the other cd is called "Red", which is primary saxophone album, released in 2015.

As I mentioned early, Blue is kind of album that going to stun any flute lover. The first song is "Little Face", played on high pitch flute (a picollo?). This song provide many fast passage and very melodic. The platform is light and easy jazz, simply only guitar, piano, bass and drum can be heard. A bit of electronic voices in background as well. "Dizzy" is warm and dance triggering tunes. The percussion and flute lead the song from the beginning, a very groovy one. The next one is rendition of Ravel's piano composition "Le Tombeau De Couperin", Nelson Rangell brings many interesting idea on this classsic tune. Another interesting one is "Children's Games", a song that performed with whistling flute. The effects is very atmospheric, we will immediately carried to kind of fantasy world while listening to this. "Peter and the Wolf" is a tune with strong orchestra feeling in it, lyrical and maybe a rendition over a song seemingly. For a hot and funky tunes, there is "Sweetest Somebody I Know", none other than Stevie Wonder hit. This followed up with another romantic piano and flute duet "I Loved You". The shortest song in the album. "Pavane" is Faure's everlasting tune, rendered with bit of Latin percussion feel. "Free as a Bird" is another strong jazz showmanship number, running bass line and unison voice between instruments will satisfied those who like to hear some crazy improvisations. "Ao Mar" is back to movie score-like ambient, with enjoyable piano solos. Finally a "The Magician" is the closing tunes that once again triumphs flute virtuosity to its greatest glory. True to the title, Nelson Rangell is one of El Mago of Flute this day. Blue is a recording that witness this.

Blue - Nelson Rangell (2015)
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01. Little Face
02. Dizzy
03. Le Tombeau De Couperin (Ravel)
04. Children's Games
05. Peter and the Wolf
06. Sweetest Somebody I Know (Stevie Wonder)
07. I Loved You
08. Pavane (Faure)
09. Free as a Bird
10. Ao Mar
11. The Magician (El Mago)

album review : Blue - Nelson Rangell 2015

Shapes & Colours - Stephanie Wagner Quinsch (2016)

Shapes & Colours
Artist : Stephanie Wagner: Flute
Genre : Modern Jazz
Label : Personality Records
Release : March 2016
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mini review:
Hailed from Germany, jazz flutist Stephanie Wagner Quinsch offered us her latest studio album titled as "Shapes & Colours". This album rendered Stephanie Wagner Quinsch's flute virtuoso in quintet ensemble. Prepare to embrace on the forefront of modern jazz with flute as leading solo. One of the track is "Kangaroo", where the intro is hyper modern staccato in display. There are a lot of modern flute technique being display as well, such as the flute beat boxing in almost half of the album. Stephanie tandem-ed with saxophonist Steffen Weber, (well, Wagner and Weber on the band!) to stand as the leading instruments of the bands. You can check the Youtube video preview in below links.

Official summary:
Stephanie Wagners Quinsch presents their new album “Shapes & Colours” on Personality Recordings. It is one of the rare jazz recordings, on which the flute is used as the lead instrument. Rhythmical finesse and a huge dynamic range display the successful interplay of Stephanie Wagners Quinsch. 

Shapes & Colours - Stephanie Wagner Quinsch (2016)
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1. Flying High - Youtube LIVE performance
2. Kangaroo - Youtube LIVE
3. McCoy
4. Lost
5.  Shapes and Colours
6. White Landscape
7. Salsa Torcida
8. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen / Robert Schumann - Youtube LIVE
9. Airy
10. All That Blues

Stephanie Wagner: Flute
Steffen Weber: Tenorsaxophone, Sopransaxophone
Steffen Stütz: Klavier, Fender Rhodes
Udo Brenner: Double Bass
Jens Biehl: Drums

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Artifacts - Nicole Mitchell - Tomeka Reid - Mike Reed (2015)

"Artifacts"
Artist : Nicole Mitchell (flute)
Genre : Jazz
Label : 482 Music
Release : October 2015
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Nicole Mitchell is leading jazz flutist in America (and elsewhere, supposedly). Famously for her Black Earth Ensemble and many other flute jazz records. In this album, Artifacts, she went ultra minimalist with only cellist and drummer to form a trio project. The compositions are mainly "cover" of popular jazz tunes. The whole album display extreme virtuoso between the trio. Nicole Mitchell flute technique is super fast and avant garde. Composition such as "The Clowns" is really microtonic in spirit, maybe not suit for every body though.  All compositions is a blend between three instruments, it's hardly to count that the flute is the leading instruments here. Some of the track did highlight particular instruments, "B.K." is heavily based on the bass / cello / contrabass groove. Tomeka Reid is playing the cellist very much as a contra bass (or perhaps it is). Mike Reed himself is a percussion wizard that put the beat in unbelievable rudiments. "Artifacts" is for extreme flute jazz lover indeed.

album notes:
Chicago Afrocentric singer/flutist/piccolo player Nicole Mitchell has been part of the area's jazz/experimental music scene since the early '90s. First lending her talents to other artist's projects (David Boykin, Ed Wilkerson), Mitchell issued her solo debut in 2001, titled Vision Quest, credited to Nicole Mitchell and Black Earth Ensemble. Joined on the recording by a host of other musicians (violinists Savoir Faire and Edith Yokley, bassist Darius Savage, plus percussionists Hamid Drake and Avreeayl Ra), Vision Quest received favorable reviews in the Chicago music press, as avant-jazz veteran (and fellow flutist) James Newton offered praise, saying that Newton "has produced new techniques that have not yet been heard from any other flutist." A year later, Afrika Rising arrived on Dreamtime Records. It was also credited to the Mitchell/Black Earth Ensemble combination, continuing her collaborations with the large Chicago-area ensemble. ~ Greg Prato

Artifacts - Nicole Mitchell - Tomeka Reid - Mike Reed (2015)
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1. Composition 23B (3:26) - (from "Quartet: Live at Moers Festival" by Anthony Braton)
2. Jo Jar (4:35) - (from "Before There Was Sound" by Roscoe Mitchell)
3. Bernice / Days Fly By with Ruby (8:15) - (by Fred Anderson)
4. The Clowns (4:28) - (from "Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America" by Leroy Jenkins)
5. Have Mercy on Us (6:06) - (from "Song for Mother" by Amina Claudine)
6. B.K. (5:48) - (from "Air Mail" by Steve McCall)
7. I'll Be Right Here Waiting (3:12) - (from "Air Time" by Steve McCall)
8. Munkt Munk (4:28) - (from "Colors in Thirty-Third" by Muhal Richard Abrams)
9. Light on the Path (5:52) - (from "Sideshow" by Edward Wilkerson / 8 Bold Souls)

Flute: Nicole Mitchell
Cello: Tomeka Reid
Drum: Mike Reed

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