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Gustav Lundgren: Live At Fasching

Read "Live At Fasching" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 18, 2021

If the Norway's Eivind Aarset is one side of Scandinavian fretboard virtuosity, Sweden's Gustav Lundgren is the other. Aarset works with experimentalists such as Jon Hassell and Jan Bang. Lundgren is more straight-ahead, evoking Jack Wilkins and Pat Metheny. Both guitarists, however, are lyrical players. If you enjoy the linear melodism of Lundgren's Live At Fasching, the chances are you will find pleasure in Aarset and Bang's recent Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes (Jazzland, 2020). The two albums are light ...

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Eric Alexander: Leap of Faith

Read "Leap of Faith" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 6, 2020

Eric Alexander è uno dei massimi tenoristi della sua generazione. In oltre quaranta dischi da leader e un centinaio di collaborazioni, ha evidenziato piena adesione al modern mainstream, privilegiando l'esibizione in quartetti o quintetti con la tipica sezione ritmica comprendente un pianista (spesso il suo mentore Harold Mabern) o talvolta un chitarrista (Pat Martino o Peter Bernstein). Anche la relazione coi partner s'è dimostrata stabile, confermando in molti album John Webber o Nat Reeves al contrabbasso e Joe Farnsworth alla ...

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Eric Alexander: Leap of Faith

Read "Leap of Faith" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
July 24, 2019

Acclaimed saxophonist Eric Alexander needs no special introduction. His pioneering work in the jazz world has been an inspiration to many of his peers since the early 90s. On this special chordless endeavour—featuring the chops of Doug Weiss on bass and drummer Jonathan Blake whose own recording in a very similar chordless constellation was likewise recently documented on the Giant Steps Arts label to high critical praise—Alexander makes a giant leap into somewhat uncharted territory for him and is rewarded ...

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Al Foster: Inspirations and Dedications

Read "Inspirations and Dedications" reviewed by Peter J. Hoetjes

by Peter J. Hoetjes
June 14, 2019

On paper Al Foster's resume as a supporting artist reads better than most other jazz drummers. He's recorded albums with Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner}, and a comeback-era {Miles Davis, among a plethora of others. Chances are, those who aren't familiar with his name have heard him somewhere, and for the first time since 2002, they can hear him on Inspirations And Dedications as a band leader. As its title suggests, the album ...

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Eric Alexander: Leap of Faith

Read "Leap of Faith" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 12, 2019

Renowned tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander's Leap of Faith stems in part from the decision (hesitantly made) to perform in a trio setting without piano—hardly an uncommon arrangement these days but one that Alexander, a shining light on the New York music scene for more than two decades, has rarely explored, either in live gigs or on more than forty-plus albums as leader of his own groups. Also, Leap of Faith was recorded live (no safety net) at New York City's ...

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Kevin Hays Trio: For Heaven's Sake

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 3, 2006

Al suo primo disco per la nuova etichetta palermitana Jazz Eyes, la cui comparsa sulla scena salutiamo con favore, il trentottenne pianista statunitense Kevin Hays, già collaboratore di Sonny Rollins e John Scofield, presenta un classico lavoro per trio piano-contrabbasso-batteria, tutto incentrato su rielaborazioni di standard. L'inevitabile confronto con lo Standard Trio di Keith Jarrett è in questo caso più appropriato che in altri, sia per il modo in cui la formazione si spartisce spazi e ruoli, sia per le ...

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The Mike Kaplan Nonet: How's That?

Read "How's That?" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2003

Saxophonist Mike Kaplan and his New York City-based nonet play contemporary jazz; that is to say, jazz that is emphatically modern but neither purposely bland nor maddeningly incomprehensible.Kaplan’s debut album contains a number of tasty musical surprises, and it's one of only a handful to leave me wishing the leader had soloed more often (Kaplan does so at length only on his entrancing “Melody for My Mom”). Even so, his fingerprints are conspicuous throughout, as Kaplan wrote five ...