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Don Aliquo: Growth
by Jack Bowers
On Growth, his eighth album as a leader, it is said that Nashville-based saxophonist Don Aliquo “pushes past his established comfort zone and into more precarious and challenging improvisational territory." While that may well be true, another truism is that the harmonic vocabulary of contemporary jazz has remained essentially unchanged for more than eight decades, and Aliquo does nothing to alter the blueprint. He simply approaches improvisation in his own way while embracing time-honored parameters. In other ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Non sono esordienti i componenti di questo nuovo ensemble attivo a Memphis, attuale residenza di Michael Jefry Stevens. Assieme al pianista troviamo l'interessante sassofonista Don Aliquo, il bassista Tom Giampietro e il batterista Jonathan Wires. Tutti, a parte Stevens, sono musicisti operanti prevalentemente nell'area sud-orientale degli States e la musica ne riflette gli umori caldi e appassionati. Lo stile del quartetto rientra nell'area ai confini tra bop avanzato e free, anche se il particolare feeling cantabile di cui s'è detto ...
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