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Aki Takase: A Week Went By

Read "A Week Went By" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Nell'universo femminile del piano jazz Aki Takase è una delle artiste più complete e versatili: è a sua agio sia negli ambiti tradizionali che nella libera improvvisazione ed ha operato felici progetti celebrando autori del jazz classico (W.C. Handy, Fats Waller ad esempio) innestando nella loro musica bagliori di contemporaneità. L'altro volto del suo universo espressivo è rivolto alla libera esplorazione delle forme ed in questo lei stessa ammette d'essere stata influenzata dal marito Alexander Von Schlippenbach. A Week Went ...

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Extended Analysis

Aki Takase: A Week Went By

Read "Aki Takase: A Week Went By" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Aki TakaseA Week Went ByPsi Records2010 This is audacious music. In the emerging drama, pianist Aki Takase plays just a ripple away from bassist John Edwards, who is, in turn, a ripple away from percussionist Tony Levin. Each relates to the other through the glacial topography of something such as kryptonite. Thus the whole idea of the trio is turned inside out as new musical structures emerge from the prodding of ...

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Album Review

Aki Takase: A Week Went By

Read "A Week Went By" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Across its nine varied tracks--five trio, three solo, one duo; all improvised--A week went by documents pianist Aki Takase's visit to Gateshead in June 2008 to play the On the Outside festival. The album opens with three trio performances, on which Takase is joined by double-bassist John Edwards and drummer Tony Levin. They are fitting company to complete this trio, as Takase easily straddles the territory between jazz and free improvisation--territory in which Edwards and Levin are both experienced and ...

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Aki Takase – Louis Sclavis: Yokohama

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Nonostante questa registrazione sia stata fatta al termine di una tournée, e dunque quando Aki Takase e Louis Sclavis avevano già maturato una certa familiarità e consuetudine ai reciproci orizzonti espressivi, l'album si sviluppa come se i due musicisti si incontrassero per la prima volta. C'è il canonico primo brano di studio, qualche accenno di turbolenza, l'approdo sicuro di una composizione scritta, di nuovo un'improvvisazione estemporanea... Poi, su tre brani consecutivi a firma di Sclavis (la quinta, sesta e settima ...

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Album Review

Aki Takase / Louis Sclavis: Yokohama

Read "Yokohama" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

Aki Takase is making a real burden for herself with this the latest in her hopefully ongoing series of Intakt releases. With every successive one it's not just a simple matter of the quality going up but rather a matter of different facets of her ability being revealed. As these releases have all been documents of duos, the effect is almost rhetorical, as if she's intent on making a case for that sparse setting and what can be achieved in ...

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Album Review

Aki Takase - Rudi Mahall: Evergreen

Read "Evergreen" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

È la terza volta che Aki Takase e Rudi Mahall s'incontrano faccia a faccia in sala discografica. Hanno debuttato poco più di un decennio fa in Duet for Dolphy (Enja, 1997), si sono rivisti in The Dessert (Leo Records, 2003) e li ritroviamo in questa personale rivisitazione di 14 noti standard. Nonostante entrambi provengano dall'avanguardia post free (com'è noto la pianista giapponese è consorte di Alexander Von Schlippenbach mentre Mahall è un veterano dei suoi gruppi) la frequentazione degli standard ...

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Album Review

Aki Takase - Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Iron Wedding

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by AAJ Italy Staff

La relazione umana e artistica tra Alexander Von Schlippenbach e Aki Takase è più lunga di quella che si potrebbe dedurre dal titolo: il termine The Iron Wedding è infatti usato dai coniugi quando celebrano il sesto anno di matrimonio. La loro primo duo risale all'inizio degli anni novanta (Piano Duets - Live In Berlin 93/94) e più recentemente i pianisti si son trovati a dialogare nel lavoro di Vincent Graf, più noto col nome DJ Illvibe, che è poi ...

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