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Brian Willson: Border Crossing

Read "Border Crossing" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Questa registrazione del 2007 vede gli statunitensi Brian Willson e Dominic Duval, entrambi nomi rilevanti della libera improvvisazione, con il sassofonista Antonio Arnedo, uno dei migliori jazzmen colombiani, docente all'Universidad Nacional de Colombia ma quasi sconosciuto fuori dal suo Paese. Eppure è uno strumentista di rilievo ed in questo disco gioca al meglio le sue carte dimostrando rigore espressivo e fantasia. Il batterista spiega nelle note di aver conosciuto Arnedo mentre partecipava al 9° Contemporary Music Festival di Bogotà e ...

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Antonio Arnedo: Colombia

Read "Colombia" reviewed by Simon Calle

by Simon Calle

Some kind of trip around Colombia through jazz, an indirect approach to the South American country’s folk music via contemporary music. These two sentences summarize the essence of an album in which Colombian saxophonist Antonio Arnedo meets some New York based musicians to create their unique version of cumbias, pasillos, and other rhythms from the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts, and the Andes region. Most of the songs are Arnedo’s compositions except for two traditional songs from local ...

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