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Take Five with Singer-Songwriter Rachelle Garniez

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Meet Rachelle Garniez Rachelle Garniez is a songwriter, singer, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised on New York City's 1970s culturally diverse Upper West Side by an American classical pianist and a European professor of French existentialist literature, Rachelle was exposed to rich and multi-layered influences, from utopian collective free-schooling and Austrian Expressionism to roller disco and congueros in Central Park. In 1982, at age 17, she spent a year making her way around Europe. She picked ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Do the Jazz Shuffle

Read "Do the Jazz Shuffle" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


This week we have have decided to do the jazz shuffle, and by shuffle we don't mean the jazz rhythm, but the feature that allows to play anything on a hard-drive in a randomized order. A perfect approach to revel through unexpected pairings, daring juxtapositions and accidental non sequiturs. After all if one is careful to only add great music in her/his ipod or music collection, then no matter how random the selection is, it'll sound good. ...

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Album Review

Alon Nechushtan: Venture Bound

Read "Venture Bound" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Dopo il suo interessante Ritual Fire, del 2013, il pianista israeliano Alon Nechushtan presenta adesso questo nuovo lavoro, in realtà registrato nell'aprile del 2012 e sostanzialmente più convenzionale, ancorché venato da elementi che gli donano una personalità propria. La formazione è un classico quartetto con sax tenore--i due sassofonisti Donny McCaslin e John Ellis si alternano di traccia in traccia--al quale solo in alcune tracce si aggiunge un ospite. Il clima generale è quello di un dinamico ...

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Multiple Reviews

Jeff Oster: An Emotional Journey into Sound

Read "Jeff Oster: An Emotional Journey into Sound" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Everything begins with sound. It is no coincidence that one of the theories of how the universe was created is called The Big Bang. You can almost hear the thunder in the name. Sound is creation. Sound is life. One way of defining a musician is to say that it is a person who shapes sound into certain patterns. When these patterns become recognizable, they evolve into genres and suddenly an identity is created. You become a ...

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Take Five With...

Take Five with Jeff Oster

Read "Take Five with Jeff Oster" reviewed by AAJ Staff


About Jeff Oster: Jeff is one of the few trumpet / flugelhorn artists working in ambient terrain. His music will take you through chilled and dramatic soundscapes, led by the silken sound of his horn. Three of his albums, Released, True, and Surrender have been voted as ZMR Album of the Year by broadcasters worldwide. His new album, Next, is now available. With Next, Jeff creates a new genre--New Age Ambient Funk--and along for the ride are guitarist ...

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Album Review

Alon Nechushtan: Ritual Fire

Read "Ritual Fire" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Nato in Israele nel 1974 e dal 2003 negli USA, il pianista Alon Nechushtan vanta tra i propri mentori anche Paul Bley e Bob Brookmeyer, i quali evidentemente gli hanno trasmesso quelle tracce del magistero di Jimmy Giuffre che caratterizzano questo eccellente lavoro d'improvvisazione--idealmente ispirato alla creatività pittorica istantanea di Jackson Pollock--e che vengono a più riprese richiamate sia nelle forme musicali, sia nei titoli ("Psalmonody," “Free Falling"). Nechushtan è autore delle composizioni, in realtà mere tracce ...

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Album Review

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica Quartet: Where Here Meets There

Read "Where Here Meets There" reviewed by Jeffrey Uhrich


Fasten your seat belt and make sure your seat is in an upright position. In Where Here Meets There, Mr. Ho's Orchestra travels the world and through time, using an intriguing fusion of genres and unusual instrumentation to create this mesmerizing collection of musical works. The listener is challenged and persuaded to attempt to identify and define which world musical influences are at play in any given moment, and the album abounds with an appreciation of composers of the past ...

Album Review

"Killer" Ray Appleton: Naptown Legacy

Read "Naptown Legacy" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Quanti batteristi vorrebbero un'adolescenza come quella di “Killer" Ray Appleton? Nato a Indianapolis nel 1941, ha iniziato a suonare le percussioni a nove anni, formandosi in quella fervida scena musicale accanto a Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Melvin Rhyne, Larry Ridley e altri protagonisti dell'hard-bop anni cinquanta. In quel periodo Indianapolis era uno dei centri propulsivi del jazz moderno: da lì sono venuti Wes e Buddy Montgomery, J.J. Johnson, Slide Hampton, Pookie Johnson e molti altri strumentisti, che hanno contribuito a ...

Album Review

Avishai Cohen: Triveni II

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Facendo seguito a Introducing Triveni, il trombettista israeliano (ma di stanza a New York) Avishai Cohen si misura nuovamente con la dimensione del trio nel suo nuovo lavoro Triveni II: il risultato è un sincero e ben confezionato album di estrazione hard bop con contaminazioni contemporanee, alla cui registrazione hanno preso parte il contrabbassista e collaboratore di lunga data Omer Avital e Nasheet Waits alla batteria. Il materiale sonoro si compone principalmente di brani originali con l'aggiunta di una manciata ...

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Album Review

Lorenzo Lombardo: Black Nile

Read "Black Nile" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il batterista Lorenzo Lombardo, dopo un lungo periodo di studi ed esprienze sul campo, realizza un album di standard energico e vibrante intitolato Black Nile dal brano di Wayne Shorter del 1964 inserito in scaletta. Lombardo guida una band di consumati professionisti. Di particolare rilievo la prova di Dick Oatts, che si alterna tra alto, soprano e flauto, come nella splendida “Con Alma" (Dizzy Gillespie), ballad dal sapore raffinato, alla quale si contrappone la più decisa “Rhythm" (Thelonious Monk), dove ...


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