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Album Review

Dave Douglas: Secular Psalms

Read "Secular Psalms" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson

Trumpeter Dave Douglas has worked with religious themes in the past, notably on Be Still, (Greenleaf Music, 2012), and he gets back into that realm on this wide-ranging 2022 album. The music is a suite commissioned by the city of Ghent, Belgium to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the creation of an altarpiece for its St. Bavo's Cathedral. For this occasion Douglas assembled a group of young European musicians along with cellist Tomeka Reid who, because of the pandemic, had ...

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Album Review

Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel: Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel

Read "Leroux - Landfermann - Burgwinkel" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Frederik Leroux, Robert Landfermann, Jonas Burgwinkel scelgono l'approccio diretto e senza compromessi che i critici americani solitamente definiscono con il tag 'take no prisoners,' ma lo fanno seguendo non la lezione hendrixiana, come sarebbe facile presupporre, vista la strumentazione: lo fanno invece cercando di catturare le brume dell'avanguardia e i sussurri dell'improvvisazione più creativa e iconoclasta. Poi inevitabilmente Hendrix riesce a fare capolino comunque (per esempio nell'inizio di “Ambitransitive"), ma questo è praticamente automatico quando ci troviamo di fronte giovani ...

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