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Breaking News

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Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Poco Picasso; 02. Wishful Thinking; 03. Breaking News; 04. Children's Waltz; 05. Warp 7, Now!; 06. Song Sung Long; 07. Trilogy: Thad's Pad, Strays, Willis.

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New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News

Read "Breaking News" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il saxofonista americano Daniel Ian Smith ha fondato il New World Jazz Composers Octet nel 2000, come veicolo per organizzare le energie dei talenti che con lui studiavano alla Berklee School of Music. La musica che questo ottetto ci propone è molto ben strutturata e parte sempre da composizioni rifinite che lasciano poco spazio all'improvvisazione o ...

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Breaking News

Label: Big and Phat Jazz Productions
Released: 2011
Track listing: Poco Picasso; Wishful Thinking; Breaking News; Children's Waltz; Warp 7, Now!; Song Sung Long; Trilogy: Thad's Pad, Strays, Willis.

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New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News

Read "Breaking News" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Eight players does not a big band make, but The New World Jazz Composers Octet is a light ensemble offering an assertive sound reminiscent of a big band production. Boasting a cadre of educators and first-rate musicians, the group manages powerful orchestrations employing an exciting horn section, lively percussion and blistering piano work from Tim Ray ...

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New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News

Read "Breaking News" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Established in 2000, in the spirit of the Mingus Jazz Workshop, the New World Jazz Composer's Octet sounds more like an orchestra than a group of eight musicians. On its third release, Breaking News, the octet showcases six contemporary composers affiliated with the ensemble. The music is intricate and well-constructed, with hints of ...

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New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News

Read "Breaking News" reviewed by Andrew J. Sammut


The New World Jazz Composers Octet thrives on the old school idea of jazz composition as conduit to great jazz performance, and its third album, Breaking News, puts theory to practice from the outset with Matthew Nicholl's “Poco Picasso." The jutting melodic angles and tightly orchestrated front line arrest on their own merits, while also spurring ...

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Breaking News

Label: Domino Records (US)
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Breaking News - 2:07; 2. Albert Meets Nels - 4:12; 3. Louisiana Rain - 8:31; 4. Plick Plick - 1:24; 5. The Kid - 5:04; 6. Run Through the Jungle (John Cameron Fogerty)- 6:27; 7. Bumper to Bumper - 1:11; 8. Brain Washed - 8:10; 9. Ruth's Tale - 3:30 Tutte le composizioni sono di Simone Massaron

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Simone Massaron: Breaking News

Read "Breaking News" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


C’è un po’ di tutto in questo sorprendente Breaking News, ultima fatica del chitarrista milanese Simone Massaron. C’è il blues, una splendida “Louisiana Rain” che puzza di bassifondi e localacci malfamati. Ci sono sfumature di rock a stelle e strisce, in particolare una cover di “Run Through the Jungle” dei Creedence che ricorda la rovente rilettura ...


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