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Richard Williams: Hollywood Christmas
by Richard J Salvucci
Ready or not, Christmas music is on the way. And this is Christmas music, old school. Do you remember The Andy Williams Christmas Album? Then, as the old joke goes, there may be fire in the hearth, but snow on the roof, because that was 1963, at least the first version. This recording, for sure, is a walk down memory lane and will produce a lot of nostalgia in listeners of a certain age. For some folks, that ...
read moreJoey Sellers: What the...?
by AAJ Italy Staff
Spesso i risultati più felici, le perle più preziose, nascono dalla casualità o dal concatenarsi accidentale di una serie di situazioni o di eventi. Come è il caso di questo What the ...? Joey Sellers, trombonista e compositore equamente diviso tra classica e jazz, si trova presso lo studio di registrazione del Saddleback College - scuola nella quale svolge il ruolo di direttore del dipartimento dedicato allo studio della musica jazz - per la prevista seduta di registrazione con l'Algonquin ...
read moreJoey Sellers' Jazz Aggregation: El Payaso
by Jack Bowers
In reviewing an album such as El Payaso, it is perhaps best to separate the performance from the music. The performance is quite good; as these dozen gentlemen are first-class musicians from the Big Apple, one would expect no less. As for the music, it is on the whole bright and enterprising, reminiscent of themes by Anthony Braxton, Carla Bley, Henry Threadgill, George Gruntz, David Murray, Pierre Dorgé, Vinny Golia (for whose label it was recorded) and other cutting-edge composers. ...
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