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Michael Feinberg: With Many Hands
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dischi come questo fanno ben sperare per le sorti future del jazz. Vi si intravede una forte personalità musicale, che il ventitreenne contrabbassista di Atlanta esercita sia sul piano compositivo che su quello dell'organizzazione sonora. Intorno a lui cinque altrettanto giovani musicisti, pronti a portare entusiasmo e un trascinante groove contemporaneo, tra suoni acustici ed elettrici. With Many Hands è un'opera che ha il raro dono della coincisione nel condensare in quarantacinque minuti un ampio raggio espressivo, che copre ritmicamente ...
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by Wilbert Sostre
Bassist Michael Feinberg is a good example of the new breed of young jazz musicians equally comfortable playing a diversity of jazz styles. On With Many Hands, Feinberg's music goes from bebop to avant-garde, and from a ballad to a funky rhythm--sometimes in the same song--with amazing ease and conviction. Surely it all comes from Feinberg eclectic taste in music that also includes rock, hip hop and bluegrass.“The Hard Stuff" has elements of avant-garde at the beginning, before ...
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
On With Many Hands, bassist/composer Michael Feinberg charts his epic journey across the topographic ocean of sound, every once in awhile plunging into its depths to stir up a vortex and emerge with a roar. His playing is that driven by a powerful natural energy. Thus, he disappears and explores the temples of tone and timbre, only to reappear with an ebullient fanfare of fat, round notes that are, at once, inspired and inspirational to those who accompany him on ...
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by Charles Walker
Atlanta is not known as a hotbed of jazz activity. Pianist/arranger Duke Pearson hailed from the city, and trumpeter Russell Gunn has a longstanding residency at the club Churchill Grounds, but on average, the metropolis rarely registers on the jazz map. On With Many Hands, 23-year old bassist Michael Feinberg's second album as a leader, the Atlanta native and his cohort of young whiz kids (the oldest is 24) make his hometown proud. The sextet heard here comfortably speaks the ...
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