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Kermit Driscoll: Reveille
by AAJ Italy Staff
"Boomstatz" con il suo andamento indolente e groovy, non avrebbe sfigurato, tutt'altro, in “Paris, Texas" di Wim Wenders. “Ire," dall'atmosfera misteriosa e a tratti impenetrabile sarebbe un perfetto commento sonoro agli incubi e alle ossessioni dei film di David Cronenberg. Una grande versione di “Great Expectations" sembra farci rivivere una qualche marachella combinata dai fratelli Jack ed Elwood Blues (ah, quel giro di basso), nella Chicago ricreata da John Landis. Queste sono solo alcune delle suggestioni che Reveille suscita ascolto ...
read moreKermit Driscoll: Reveille
by Glenn Astarita
Reveille marks bassist and educator Kermit Driscoll's freshman solo outing, and features his longtime associate, guitarist Bill Frisell. As a member of Frisell's dynamic trio with drummer Joey Baron, the term cutting-edge took on notorious implications. Similar forward-reaching concepts are explored throughout this multidimensional program. Mildly surprising is the inclusion of Vinnie Colaiuta, though the all-universe pop, jazz and rock session drummer is quite adroit at handling the freer sojourns, where his polyrhythmic assaults and propelling beats distribute a broad ...
read moreThe Healing Force of the Universe
by AAJ Staff
By Kermit Driscoll I'll start this story at the bottom. Sometime at the beginning of last summer I had been taking oral antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme disease for one year and was gradually getting worse. My “Lyme specialist doctor at that time suspected that the disease had gone to my brain and ordered a brain SPECT scan and a brain MRI. Her findings were positive and I was told that intravenous antibiotics were necessary.
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