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Meredith d'Ambrosio: Midnight Mood

Read "Midnight Mood" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


A quattro anni di distanza da Sometime Ago la cantante bostoniana pubblica un nuovo album di raffinate interpretazioni, entro e oltre il classico songbook statunitense. Il contesto strumentale è ancor più minimale e nasce dalle sollecitazioni del chitarrista francese Frédéric Loiseau, che ha convinto la cantante e il fondatore della Sunnyside, François Zalacain. Già partner di Sheila Jordan, Loiseau è un musicista affascinato dai grandi interpreti vocali del jazz e non poteva non rivolgersi a Meredith, classe 1941, ...

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Frederic Loiseau Meets Carlton Schroeder: Red Shoes

Read "Red Shoes" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


In a recent AAJ interview, pianist Guillaume de Chassy called guitarist Frédéric Loiseau the “French Jim Hall." Without belaboring the comparison, the piano- guitar duets on Red Shoes are less the French version of Hall's recent, excellent duets with Geoff Keezer on Free Association (Artist Share, 2006) than the Gallic equivalent of Undercurrent (Blue Note, 1962), the guitarist's fabled encounter with pianist Bill Evans. Clean, limpid lines; a mise en scène conducive to reverie; a visceral rhythmic accompaniment: these are ...


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