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Aruán Ortiz Trio: Serranias: Sketchbook For Piano Trio

Read "Serranias: Sketchbook For Piano Trio" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Aruan Ortiz hails from Santiago de Cuba, but he has resided in the United States for two decades. Musically he is a first cousin to pianist Matthew Shipp with his approachable and often intense and avant-garde keyboard style; and he seems a stylistic grandson to Thelonious Monk with his joyful angularities and off-kilter interludes. But he is the son of Cuba, his music mixing in a cubist way the island nation's toques, rumbas, son and conga, tinted at times ...

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Jeremy Udden: Three in Paris

Read "Three in Paris" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Il poco più che quarantenne sassofonista statunitense Jeremy Udden presenta questo lavoro registrato a Parigi nell'agosto del 2018 alla testa di un trio nel quale è accompagnato da due eccellenti musicisti: il contrabbassista francese Nicolas Moreaux, notevole tecnica e collaborazioni importanti, e lo storico batterista americano, da decenni attivo in Francia, John Betsch. Una formazione, il trio senza pianoforte, che fu tra le predilette da Steve Lacy, per un breve periodo maestro di Udden e più volte collaboratore di Betsch, ...


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