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Album Review

Rin Seo: City Suite

Read "City Suite" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Il nome di Rin Seo si aggiunge al numero delle talentose musiciste di origine asiatica che nell'ultimo ventennio hanno mostrato d'aver creativamente assimilato l'idioma musicale afro-americano. Tra esse non mancano le orchestratrici che ottengono risultati eccellenti anche grazie alla solida preparazione negli studi classici. Nata in Corea 36 anni fa, Rin Seo s'è laureata in composizione classica a Seul e s'è trasferita negli Stati Uniti per studiare al Berklee College of Music. Dopo il diploma ha conseguito un master ...

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Album Review

Davy Mooney, Ko Omura: The Word

Read "The Word" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Il chitarrista statunitense Davy Mooney e il batterista giapponese Ko Omura riprendono in mano una collaborazione risalente al 2018, che aveva già fruttato l'album Benign Strangers, edito da Sunnyside, e che era stata bloccata dalla pandemia, a cui fa seguito questo The Word per la medesima etichetta. Il lavoro vede in azione la stessa formazione di allora, un quintetto completato dall'eclettico sassofonista e clarinettista John Ellis, dall'eccellente e ormai ben noto pianista Glenn Zaleski e dal contrabbassista Matt ...

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Album Review

Rin Seo: City Suite

Read "City Suite" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

There is no doubting which metropolis Korean-born composer Rin Seo had in mind when writing City Suite, the panoramic opening salvo and centerpiece on the debut recording by her fourteen-member Rin Seo Collective, as the suite's first movement is titled “The Big Apple." Seo moved to New York City, her present home, after coming to America to study jazz performance and composition at Boston's Berklee College of Music. The suite's three movements are thematic, and Seo's portrayal ...

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Jack Wood: Movie Magic. Great Songs from the Movies

Read "Movie Magic. Great Songs from the Movies" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci

Someone could be forgiven for thinking that everyone loves music from the movies. After all: Jule Styne; Leslie Bricusse; Johnny Mandel; Sammy Fain; Harry Warren; Richard Rodgers ; Henry Mancini; Johnny Mercer; Antonio Carlos Jobim; Michel Legrand; Bernice Petkere; and Isham Jones is hardly a list of minor talents, but all are represented on Movie Magic. Is it the music itself, the associated film or both that are compelling? Perhaps an emotional connection to a moment, a time, a person ...

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Album Review

Courtney Cutchins: Grunge to Grace

Read "Grunge to Grace" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

È un debutto discografico dalla lunga gestazione --almeno un decennio-quest'album di Courtney Cutchins, che rilegge in ottica jazz l'estetica grunge, sottolineandolo nella scelta del titolo. Dei nove brani che costituiscono il percorso musicale, la cantante ne riprende due dal repertorio dei Soundgarden ("Boot Camp" e “The Day I Tried to Live") e uno da Kurt Kobain ("All Apologies"), aggiungendone sei di sua composizione. Nata a Seattle, Courtney ha respirato il clima del grunge rock nell'adolescenza ma ...

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Album Review

Ben Kono Group: Voyages

Read "Voyages" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson

This album is saxophonist Ben Kono's tribute to his family's history, dating back to his grandfather's migration from Japan to the United States in 1911, performed by a combination of small jazz group and string quartet, The first half of the work concerns with his family's transition into life in the United States, and the second half celebrates four generations of Kono's lineage, going from his grandparents all the way through to his own children. The strings are ...

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Album Review

Tracy Yang: OR

Read "OR" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Il percorso biografico e artistico di Tracy Yang ha molte affinità con quello di Jihye Lee, l'ormai nota arrangiatrice e bandleader coreana che s'è imposta con i significativi album Infinite Connections e Daring Mind. Tracy Yang viene da Taiwan, dove lavorava come radiologa. Come Jihyie Lee ha appreso in un decennio le tecniche dell'orchestrazione partendo da zero, ha studiato al Berklee e in altri college statunitensi e fatto esperienza sul campo a New York. Darcy James ...

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