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Trio M: The Guest House

Read "The Guest House" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La formula è quella canonica del trio con piano-basso e batteria, ma la classe dei musicisti è tale e tanta da generare un avvincente flusso sonoro che fluttua liberamente. Già il brano iniziale è paradigmatico di una fluida ridefinizione del modello seguito, con sontuosi contrasti fra linee cantabili ed armonizzazioni scure e dissonanti. Qui basso e batteria hanno libera facoltà di sviluppare insieme al pianoforte una poderosa tensione espressiva che si risolve in assoli di non comune intensità e pregnanza. ...

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Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris: Verona

Read "Verona" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Di Butch Morris non ce n'è mai abbastanza. Sono passati la bellezza di 27 anni dall'ormai leggendario Current Trends in Racism in Modern America, che il primo febbraio del 1985, eseguito da un ensemble di dieci elementi (tra i quali Frank Lowe, Tom Cora e John Zorn), inaugurò il filone delle Conduction. 27 anni sono lunghi e 200 Conduction sono tante; eppure il viaggio prosegue, e a ogni tappa c'è sempre da drizzare le orecchie: il rischio è quello di ...

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Myra Melford Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

Read "The Whole Tree Gone" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Atmosfere acustiche, un incipit dalla melodia solare, bucolica, quasi cinematografica. E' questa la sorprendente apertura del nuovo CD del Myra Melford Be Bread, gruppo che in passato ci aveva abituato a ben altre atmosfere ed a ben altre sonorità. Qui invece l'elettricità è bandita. L'orizzonte di riferimento sembra essere la “bassa" padana. Biciclette che percorrono strade bianche di campagna. Un inizio alla Simone Guiducci, per intenderci, molto gradevole e indubbiamente spiazzante per Myra Melford, anche se un poco oleografico nei ...

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Myra Melford's Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

Read "The Whole Tree Gone" reviewed by Nic Jones


Pianist Myra Melford founded this ensemble in 2002, specifically as an outlet for her compositions. She's blessed indeed, because this line up realizes them so beautifully. Her work can be described as pervasively contemplative though never quiet, which in its way is every bit as distinctive as the late Andrew Hill's depth of compositional character.

Melford's not afraid to cover bases either. Her solo free exposition into “Moon Bird" is the work of a pianist secure in her ...

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Album Review

Myra Melford's Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

Read "The Whole Tree Gone" reviewed by John Sharpe


It's been too long since pianist Myra Melford's last release as bandleader, especially as we can now hear what we've been missing. For the second outing by her Be Bread ensemble, the pianist has assembled an all star cast of frequent collaborators. Bassist Stomu Takeishi, guitarist Brandon Ross and trumpeter Cuong Vu are holdovers from the debut disc, here joined by clarinetist Ben Goldberg and Matt Wilson at the traps. Melford herself concentrates solely on piano. Electronics are set aside ...

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Multiple Reviews

Myra Melford: Under The Water (Piano Solo and Duo), Continuation & My Fingers Will Be Your Tears

Read "Myra Melford: Under The Water (Piano Solo and Duo), Continuation & My Fingers Will Be Your Tears" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Satoko Fujii / Myra Melford Under the Water Libra 2009 Alex Cline Continuation Cryptogramophone 2009 Andrew Drury My Fingers Will Be Your Tears Cadence Jazz Records 2009 As Myra Melford continues to challenge herself with new ensembles and approaches to composing, the opportunities to hear her ...

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Album Review

Big Air: Big Air

Read "Big Air" reviewed by Chris May


Big Air is the debut album by the genre-mashing transatlantic quintet of saxophonist Steve Buckley, trumpeter Chris Batchelor, and tuba player Oren Marshall, from the UK, and pianist Myra Melford and drummer Jim Black, from the USA. It comes carrying weighty expectations--Big Air's infrequent performances have enlivened the British jazz scene. The band caused a stir at the London Jazz Festival in 2005, and another at north London's Vortex club in late 2008.

The disc amply justifies the ...


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