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Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Lovano is an old-school saxophonist, a throwback to the golden age of jazz. While he has, of course, incorporated modern innovations introduced by saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, as well as others into his style, his exuberant playing maintains a direct line through the history of jazz, incorporating swing, bebop, big band, and modal influences.
This explains the success of Lovano's recent quartet recordings with the venerable Hank Jones on piano (I'm All For You, Blue Note, 2004 ...
Continue ReadingAa.Vv.: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
by AAJ Italy Staff
Strettissimo collaboratore di Duke Ellington per quasi trent’anni, Billy Strayhorn è uno dei grandi autori della storia del jazz. Basta scorrere i titoli dei brani contenuti in questo album per rinfrescarsi la memoria. Oggi, a quarant’anni dalla sua scomparsa, l’etichetta Blue Note pubblica questo CD, nel quale alcune delle sue più famose composizioni vengono interpretate da un nucleo di artisti davvero impressionante. Al di là del singolo brano, o della declinazione che ad esso viene attribuita dai singoli musicisti, quello ...
Continue ReadingJoe Lovano: Streams of Expression
by AAJ Italy Staff
Joe Lovano è uno dei protagonisti più eclettici ed attivi dell'ultimo ventennio: ha suonato di tutto e con tutti, senza mai rinunciare alla sua personale pronuncia, di un'eleganza classica e sofisticata, tanto rifinita e pomposa da risultare a volte stucchevole. Il che capita di rado in questo CD ben congegnato, in cui la tensione e i raffinati arrangiamenti utilizzano al meglio i qualificati partner invitati; un CD a programma, in quanto ognuno dei brani originali è dedicato a una serie ...
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by Robert R. Calder
Joe Lovano Streams Of Expression Blue Note Records 2006
Forget those ill-founded accusations of conservatism. Joe Lovano is a genuine innovator. He's uninterested in novelty for novelty's sake and he's very, very ambitious for his music. He makes things more interesting for everybody, including himself, by (no apologies for the pun) digging foundations. On Streams Of Expression, Lovano combines a new suite of his own with another by Gunther Schuller, programming a further two ...
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by Tom Greenland
Joe Lovano never fails to create an impression. Streams of Expression, his eighteenth release for Blue Note, is a suite-within-a-suite that honors and signifies upon a considerable amount of jazz history--cool, modal, avant, bop--with authority and individuality.
The centerpiece of the album is the “Birth of the Cool Suite," a tribute to the chamber jazz outings of John Lewis, Miles Davis and Gil Evans; updated versions of “Moon Dreams, “Move and “Boplicity are mortared together with new pre-, inter- and ...
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by Troy Collins
Joe Lovano Streams Of Expression Blue Note 2006
Saxophonist Joe Lovano's second collaboration with the estimable composer and arranger Gunther Schuller finds the two musicians navigating similar territory as their 1995 collaboration, Rush Hour (Blue Note). Boasting a similarly varied line-up and mix of compositions, the album consists of two extended suites and three shorter pieces.
Lovano's titular five-part suite bookends the album, following a historical trajectory from neo-classical ...
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by John Kelman
British woodwind player Tim Garland has praised Joe Lovano for “the way he looks forward and backwards on the horn simultaneously, covering the whole tradition, yet looking way, way forward at the same time. Nowhere is this more evident than on Streams of Expression, where the woodwind multi-instrumentalist teams up with Third Stream progenitor Gunther Schuller on record for the first time since Rush Hour (Blue Note, 1994). The result is an intrepid album that manages to take a variety ...
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