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Adam Lane Trio: Absolute Horizon

Read "Absolute Horizon" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Adam Lane is among the best and brightest of the new wave of forward- looking jazz and improvising bassists, who along with his formidable cohorts exploit the trio format. Here, every inflection, tonality and nuance becomes prominently embedded into the group's stylization which is based on instant composition. No doubt, the musicians' astonishing synergy is a powerful underlying component. Sprinkled with off-kilter thematic overtures, blooming tone poems, and unwieldy or tumultuous breakouts, the trio largely straddles the avant-garde spectrum. Lane ...

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Luis Lopes - Adam Lane - Igal Foni: What is When

Read "What is When" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La Clean Feed si conferma label di riferimento per la musica d'avanguardia. Di solito pubblica lavori di musicisti americani. Ma ci sono diverse, e meritevoli, eccezioni, come il sassofonista Rodrigo Amado e - in questo caso - il chitarrista Luis Lopes, che troviamo alla guida di un trio internazionale insieme al contrabbassista statunitense Adam Lane e al batterista israeliano Igal Foni. I tre mischiano con intelligenza punk, free, freefunk, rock, con l'energia della chitarra prepotentemente in primo piano in un ...

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Adam Lane - Lou Grassi - Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly

Read "Drunk Butterfly" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Non fatevi ingannare dalle traiettorie bizzarre tracciate dalla farfalla ubriaca disegnata sulla copertina! Drunk Butterfly (bel titolo) è disco lucidissimo nella sua progettazione e nella sua messa in opera, ricca di sfaccettature e di apparenti incongruenze, è vero, ma assai rigorosa nella sua unitarietà d’intenti. Che è quella di esaltare lo spirito libertario e improvvisativo della musica afroamericana all’interno di strutture compositive mobili ma riconoscibili, senza barricate stilistiche con il solo desiderio di dare adeguato risalto alla propria creatività. Si ...

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Adam Lane / Lou Grassi / Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly

Read "Drunk Butterfly" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Connotations of a Drunk Butterfly might sound like a humorous proposition, especially when depicted in a cartoon. But art doesn't necessarily imitate art within this 2008 trio release. Sure, the trio embarks upon a few off-kilter flight patterns. However, the musical aspects present numerous examples steeped within the bop, or free-bop scheme of things. And with three highly revered New York area artists spinning a web of excitement, the music and overall effect convey a democratic engagement that occasionally projects ...

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Adam Lane: Buffalo & Four Corners

Read "Adam Lane: Buffalo & Four Corners" reviewed by Marc Medwin


Adam Lane Buffalo CIMP 2007 Magnus Broo / Adam Lane / Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark 4 Corners Clean Feed 2007

These two recent releases prove, if further proof was needed, that Adam Lane is an original voice of which all bass enthusiasts should take note. His sense of groove is matched by ...

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Adam Lane: Buffalo

Read "Buffalo" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Buffalo, by bassist Adam Lane and his trio (Vinny Golia on tenor and soprano sax and drummer Vijay Anderson), represents the completion of a triptych taking place over two days in February, 2005. This live recording, on which trumpeter Paul Smoker sits in, is an example of the power that music can have when everything just clicks. Zero Degree Music (CIMP, 2005) and Music Degree Zero (CIMP, 2006) are the two studio recordings done on the 24th ...

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Adam Lane: Buffalo

Read "Buffalo" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


È sempre un piacere imbattersi in un lavoro come questo, un’autentica boccata d’aria fresca. Free jazz a stelle e strisce con tutte le sue cosine al posto giusto: composizioni briose e incendiarie; groove irresistibili e carnali; interventi solistici meravigliosamente coinvolgenti e carichi della giusta urgenza espressiva; un’intesa praticamente impeccabile, affinata on the road e riproposta con assoluta sincerità in un piccolo club, davanti a un pubblico in delirio. Saranno pure cose già sentite, ma che soddisfazione nell’accostarsi a musica tanto ...


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