Portico Quartet - jazz baltica 2010 [2010, Modern Creative / Worldbeat, SATRip]

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1992 JOE PASS mpg
1993 BRAZZ BROS. feat. LESTER BOWIE mpg
1995 BOBO STENSON TRIO feat. CHRISTOF LAUER
1997
1997 MILT JACKSON & BENNY GOLSON & ART FARMER & NHØP
1997 CÆCILIE NORBY GROUP feat. JAMES CARTER
1997 MISHA ALPERIN QUINTET "North Story"
1997 MAX ROACH & ABDULLAH IBRAHIM
1998
1998 CHRISTOPH OEDING TRIO feat. JOHN MARSHALL
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1999 MARILYN MAZUR'S FUTURE SONG mpg
1999 MONDAY MICHIRU & HER BAND
1999 NICHOLAS PAYTON QUINTET
1999 ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO
2000
2000 CHARLIE HADEN QUARTET WEST feat. BILL HENDERSON & SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
2000 TOMASZ STANKO "The Green Hill Project" mpg
2000 CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET
2000 PETER WENIGER PROJECT
2001
2001 PALLE DANIELSSON QUARTET
2001 ULF WAKENIUS
2002
2002 RIGMOR GUSTAFSSON QUINTET feat. KARL-MARTIN ALMQVIST, JACOB KARLZON
2002 NILS LANDGREN PROJEKT feat. "FLESHQUARTET"
2002 GEIR LYSNE LISTENING ENSEMBLE
2002 FIROMANUM
2003
2003 ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO & SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA feat. PAT METHENY
2003 GABIN DABIRÉ, LOKUA KANZA, DOMINIC MILLER PROJECT
2003 JAZZ BALTICA ENSEMBLE directed by LARS DANIELSSON
2003 PAT METHENY JAZZBALTICA-PROJECT
2003 KONZERT FÜR RAY BROWN
2003 U-STREET ALL STARS
2004
2004 SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA feat. STEFANO DI BATTISTA
2004 HERBIE HANCOCK, WAYNE SHORTER, DAVE HOLLAND, BRIAN BLADE
2004 ROBERTA GAMBARINI feat. SLIDE HAMPTON & JOHNNY GRIFFIN
2004 DIANNE REEVES feat. RUSSELL MALONE, ROMERO LUBAMBO
2004 NDR BIG BAND meets ROBERTA GAMBARINI
2004 NILS LANDGREN FUNK UNIT - Funky ABBA
2004 VIKTORIA TOLSTOY QUARTET
2004 ENRICO RAVA QUINTET
2004 JASON MORAN TRIO
2005
2005 JAZZBALTICA ENSEMBLE WOLFGANG HAFFNER
2005 DON FRIEDMAN PROJECT feat. JOE LOVANO
2005 JOE LOVANO QUARTET feat. HANK JONES
2005 DON FRIEDMAN PROJECT feat. JIM HALL
2005 WOLFGANG HAFFNER "ZOOMING"
2005 DOMINIC MILLER PROJECT
2005 JIM HALL QUARTET
2006
2006 DON FRIEDMAN TRIO meets CEDAR WALTON & BENNY GOLSON
2006 JAZZBALTICA ENSEMBLE directed by WOLFGANG HAFFNER
2006 NDR BIGBAND feat. NILS LANDGREN & PAT METHENY
2006 TERELL STAFFORD QUINTET feat. MULGREW MILLER
2006 BRAD MEHLDAU QUARTET feat. PETER BERNSTEIN
2006 MULGREW MILLER TRIO & STEFANO DI BATTISTA
2006 SOLVEIG SLETTAHJELL SLOW MOTION QUINTET
2006 NILS LANDGREN & PAT METHENY TRIO
2006 STEFANO BOLLANI TRIO
2006 ULITA KNAUS & BAND
2006 BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
2006 PAT METHENY TRIO
2006 RAUL MIDON
2007
2007 JAN LUNDGREN, RICHARD GALLIANO & PAOLO FRESU "Mare Nostrum"
2007 BOBBY HUTCHERSON / JOE LOCKE "Homage to Milt Jackson"
2007 JAZZBALTICA ENSEMBLE directed by STEVEN BERNSTEIN
2007 WOLFGANG HAFFNER & NDR BIGBAND "Nordic Shapes"
2007 DAVE DOUGLAS plays the music of RANDY WESTON
2007 DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET feat. URI CAINE
2007 JOE LOCKE / GEOFFREY KEEZER GROUP
2007 BOBBY HUTCHERSON QUARTET
2007 STEVEN BERNSTEIN "Sex Mob"
2007 BUNKY GREEN QUARTET
2007 SF JAZZ COLLECTIVE
2008
2008 JOE LOVANO / STEVE KUHN QUARTET "Remembering John Coltrane"
2008 JOE LOVANO "Sax Summit" feat. RAVI COLTRANE & DAVE LIEBMAN
2008 MARTIN WIND NEW YORK QUARTET feat. SCOTT ROBINSON
2008 JAZZBALTICA ENSEMBLE directed by JOHANNES ENDERS
2008 NDR BIGBAND feat. DAVE DOUGLAS & JOE LOVANO
2008 DONNY McCASLIN GROUP & DAVE DOUGLAS
2008 JOE LOVANO & THE SAX BROTHERS
2008 HANK JONES & JOE LOVANO "Kids"
2008 JONATHAN KREISBERG GROUP
2008 STEFANO DI BATTISTA GROUP
2008 JOE LOCKE "Sticks & Strings"
2008 BUNKY GREEN GROUP
2008 ORNETTE COLEMAN
2008 ASA
2009
2009 THE VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA. Special Guest HANK JONES
2009 JBBG - JAZZ BIGBAND GRAZ "Electric Poetry & Lo-Fi Cookies"
2009 JAZZBALTICA ENSEMBLE directed by JOAKIM MILDER
2009 NDR BIGBAND directed by MARIA SCHNEIDER
2009 BOHUSLÄN BIG BAND "Steve Swallow Songs"
2009 CLAUDIA QUINTET feat. JOHN HOLLENBECK
2009 ANDROMEDA MEGA EXPRESS ORCHESTRA
2009 MICHAEL WOLLNY & JOACHIM KÜHN
2009 ODDJOB "New sounds from Sweden"
2009 BUNKY GREEN "Salzau Quartet"
2009 JOE LOCKE FORCE OF FOUR
2009 PERCUSSION DISCUSSION
2009 IDA SAND
2010
2010 THE JAZZBALTICA JUBILEE ENSEMBLE DIRECTED by MARTIN WIND
2010 BENNY GREEN, MARTIN WIND, MATT WILSON TRIO
2010 NILS LANDGREN FUNK UNIT & NDR BIGBAND HDTV 720p
2010 MICHAEL WOLLNY & TAMAR HALPERIN
2010 EDMAR CASTANEDA - JOE LOCKE DUO
2010 McCOY TYNER & DAVE HOLLAND
2010 CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET
2010 LARS DANIELSSON "Tarantella"
2010 KATE McGARRY TRIO
2010 PORTICO QUARTET
2010 MARK TURNER FLY
2010 [em]
2010 CÉU
2011
2011 DAVE DOUGLAS & DONNY McCASLIN KEYSTONE SPECIAL QUINTET mpg
2011 JAZZBALTICA ENSEMBLE. Special Guest DAVE DOUGLAS
2011 CÆCILIE NORBY & LARS DANIELSSON "Arabesque" mpg
2011 TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE
2011 ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIBUTE CONCERT mpg
2011 NDR BIGBAND feat. JOE SAMPLE
2011 DAN BERGLUND'S TONBRUKET HDTV 720p
2011 DAN BERGLUND'S TONBRUKET
2011 JOÃO BOSCO & NDR BIGBAND
2011 NIK BÄRTSCH'S RONIN
2011 VIJAY IYER TRIO
2012
2012 JAZZ - JUST CALL IT MUSIC mpg
2013
2013 DAS ALPHORN UND DIE SONNE IM GEPÄCK HDTV 720p

2010 PORTICO QUARTET - jazz baltica
2011 PORTICO QUARTET - Cully Jazz Festival
2018 PORTICO QUARTET - Jazz à la Villette HDTV 720p

PORTICO QUARTET "Isla" © 2009, Real World
Having created a seismic sensation in Britain with its first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007) – which was a Mercury Prize Album Of The Year in 2008 – Portico Quartet now releases that "difficult" second album. Can the group better its precocious debut? Yes it can. Portico has grown, as a collective entity and as individual musicians, and it's associating, rewardingly, with some heavy hitters: signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World Records and produced by John Leckie, whose credits include Doves, Radiohead and The Stone Roses.
Portico gathered much of its early media attention from the use of hangs – tuned percussion instruments which in appearance resemble a pair of cooking woks (see the YouTube clip below). Portico was the first British band, maybe the first band in the world, to use hangs, and the novelty served it well.
With a character of their own, hangs nevertheless carry traces of Tibetan prayer bells, steel drums, gamelan gongs, tubular bells, cymbals and xylophones. Their sound is pure and mellifluous, but without the sustained resonance of real bells; they are percussive, but without the hard-edged impact of cymbals or xylophones. Hangs don't work as washes of chill-out ambient sound, but they lend themselves perfectly to riffs and ostinatos, producing rapid-fire rhythms with attractively rounded edges.
One of the strengths of Isla is that the hangs aren't treated like exclamation marks; their particular attributes have become more fully integrated into the group sound. The basic Portico paradigm has hang players Nick Mulvey and Duncan Bellamy, who also plays kit drums, working in tandem with double bassist Milo Fitzpatrick to produce interconnecting layers of beats and melodic motifs. Some might call this "trance," but there's too much evolution going on to merit that generic description. Saxophonist and (less is more) loopist Jack Wyllie rides the waves, stating most of the themes and taking most of the formal solos. He sticks mainly to prettily played and gently handled soprano, but adds some rough, broken-note strewn alto or tenor to the racing "Clipper."
The album is characterized by a brisk liveliness: even when a top line is slow and leisurely, as for instance in the extenuated soprano notes which state "Line," the underlying patterns played by the hangs and/or the drums and bass are frequently in double or quadruple time. Melodies are attractive and catchy. Rhythms are insistent. Improvisation is to the fore. Isla is the nuts.
Chris May ~ allaboutjazz.com