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Shoup - Burns - Radding - Campbell: The Levitation Shuffle

Read "The Levitation Shuffle" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


È sempre più evidente che nel corso dei decenni l'improvvisazione radicale, suo malgrado, si è consolidata in un vero e proprio genere musicale, con un suo codice riconoscibile, con proprie modalità tecnico-espressive ricorrenti. Molte esperienze, in Europa, negli States e in definitiva in ogni angolo del mondo, sono accomunate da procedimenti analoghi: l'esigenza di ricercare ed inserire sonorità e pronunce eterodosse, il modo di concepire l'interplay e di costruire un andamento dinamico transitando, più o meno gradualmente, da fasi di ...

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Wally Shoup Trio: Blue Purge

Read "Blue Purge" reviewed by Germein Linares


The Seattle-based group of alto saxophonist Wally Shoup, bassist Reuben Radding, and drummer Bob Rees offers eleven diverse and intense improvisational pieces on Blue Purge. This followup to 2003's Fusillades and Lamentations finds various moods in its path as it progresses from the wobbly “Ruffing It" to the playful “Depth Charge," the serene “Gut Luv," and the minimalistic “Moiling" and “Lunar Dust."

The willingness of bassist Rees and drummer Radding to engage Shoup beyond the commonly prescribed roles of rhythm ...


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