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Dick Wood: Not Far from Here

Read "Not Far from Here" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La foto di copertina sembra portare dritti dritti verso morbide atmosfere, languide ballad, rassicuranti scenari smooth jazz, filodiffusione in alberghi di lusso. Niente di più errato perché la musica contenuta in Not Far from Here ha lo stesso rapporto con il jazz patinato e di maniera che ha il diavolo con l'acqua santa. Not Far from Here è disco complesso, di contagio immediato, ma costruito come scatole cinesi, scrigni dai tesori nascosti che si svelano progressivamente. La dimensione orizzontale e ...

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Album Review

Dick Wood: Not Far From Here

Read "Not Far From Here" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


California reed man Dck Wood's heterogeneous union of influences from New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, John Cage and a consortium of other luminaries are rather subliminally packaged throughout this audacious studio date. Here, the artist gives the always-thriving West Coast progressive-jazz scene yet another jolt, as his semi-structured arrangements are fashioned with shadowy song-forms, peppered with dissonant tonal swashes, electronics and bizarre interludes. Wood also infuses humor and pathos into the fluid story lines, often proposing interpretations of social pandemonium.


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