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Jim Black Alasnoaxis: Houseplant

Read "Houseplant" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Houseplant è un flusso navigante di umori, di toni e scale. Con “Inkionos" vengono ad intersecarsi diverse sensibilità acustiche, dai modi sordi e dai colori pastello. Ci sono poi momenti di delicato rock, che riportano all'esperienza Sonic Youth, come “Houseplant," una ballata trasognante e trasparente. Una ricerca attraverso la canzone che si esaurisce in maniera complessa, con il sassofono di Chris Speed che porta ancora lontano l'ascoltatore. L'improvvisazione non è un fine, un feticcio e nemmeno un mezzo, piuttosto un ...

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Endangered Blood: Endangered Blood

Read "Endangered Blood" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Endangered Blood formed in 2008, to play a benefit concert to help pay for fellow musician Andrew D'Angelo's medical bills. For the performance, drummer Jim Black and bassist Trevor Dunn--two of the saxophonist's band mates--enlisted saxophonists Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega. As happens so often in modern groups, familiar players in different combination produce compelling results.Black and Speed are both veterans of Tim Berne's vanguard band, Bloodcount, as well as Human Feel, Pachora, Yeah No and Alas No ...

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Ben Perowski Quartet: Esopus Opus

Read "Esopus Opus" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Esopus Opus, album che per la prima volta vede il percussionista newyorkese Ben Perowski collaborare con l'etichetta discografica di Chris Speed, Skirl Records, è un disco diviso a metà. Perowski, affiancato dallo stesso Speed al clarinetto e al sassofono, Ted Reichman alla fisarmonica e Drew Gress al basso, passeggia fra brani recuperati dal repertorio firmato da George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix e Jacob do Bandolim e qualche composizione originale scegliendo il clarinetto di Speed come voce principale. Aperto da una trascinante ...

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Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus

Read "Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


The New Mellow Edwards Big Choantza Skirl Records 2009 Tyft Smell The Difference Skirl Records 2009 Ben Perowsky Quartet Esopus Opus Skirl Records 2009

Since founding Skirl Records in 2006, saxophonist Chris Speed still hasn't led a project for the label. But that hasn't diminished ...

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Album Review

Chris Speed / Chris Cheek / Stephane Furic Leibovici: Jugendstil

Read "Jugendstil" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Double-bassist Stephane Furic Leibovici avers that he likes to be gentle with sounds and to listen to the inside of them. He is true to this philosophy on Jugendstil, where he finds solace in the quiet and the meditative; getting inspiration from classical and chamber music and using them to the full in his writing.

One of the traits of the music is the subtle changes woven into the context. The credit for this goes largely to clarinetist ...

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Chris Speed / Chris Cheek / Stephane Furic Leibovici: Jugendstil

Read "Jugendstil" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Everything about this extraordinary album, Jugendstil, is deliberate and attains its own level of perfection. To begin with, there is its name: The word Jugendstil (German for “youth style," akin to the French “art nouveau" movement of the late nineteenth century) is so apt, considering that it defines the music contained in this record. For instance just as that art movement was typified by highly stylized and curvilinear forms, so also is the music on this record. Here, the aural ...

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John Hollenbeck: A Blessing

Read "A Blessing" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'aspetto di A Blessing che più colpisce al primo ascolto è il lungo snodarsi delle linee melodiche, lontano dalla stringatezza percussiva tipica del jazz per big band. I suoi temi avvolgono ipnotici, quasi minimalisti, costruiti su cellule che sviluppano lente e inesorabili, affidate a insiemi strumentali tipici della scrittura di Gil Evans e altri arrangiatori bianchi come Bob Graettinger o Bob Brookmeyer (col quale da tempo Hollenbeck collabora). L'impiego della voce di Theo Bleckmann, come elemento interno alla tessitura orchestrale, ...


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