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Arild Andersen, Paolo Vinaccia, Tommy Smith: Mira

Read "Mira" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Registrato al leggendario Rainbow Studio di Oslo nel dicembre 2012 e uscito poco più di un anno dopo (gennaio 2014), questo album ci ripropone una delle formazioni più tipiche, esplicative, paradigmatiche, di un dato suono nordico in jazz, nello specifico veicolato attraverso un organico che nella musica afroamericana, pur con tutte le di lei progressive appendici, affonda massicciamente le proprie radici. L'impatto iniziale ci regala da subito l'abbraccio con quella straniata, fascinosa souplesse che permea l'intero lavoro, ...

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Arild Andersen / Paolo Vinaccia / Tommy Smith: Mira

Read "Arild Andersen / Paolo Vinaccia / Tommy Smith: Mira" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The debut of Arild Andersen's now longstanding trio with Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and Italian expat drummer Paolo Vinaccia on Live at Belleville (ECM, 2008) came as no small surprise, even to those familiar with the Norwegian bassist's work on the label--dating right back to its inception on Jan Garbarek's classic Afric Pepperbird (ECM, 1971), as well as with his own fine triptych of more accessible early albums, recently collected on Green Into Blue--Early Quartets (ECM, 2010). Andersen ...

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Album Review

Paolo Vinaccia: Very Much Alive

Read "Very Much Alive" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Paolo Vinaccia è un batterista e compositore italiano che dal 1979 ha scelto la Norvegia come patria di adozione. Qui si è costruito una reputazione che lo ha portato a incidere con i migliori musicisti della scena scandinava, a partecipare a oltre cento incisioni, ad essere uno dei batteristi più richiesti, grazie alla grande duttilità che lo porta a suonare con naturalezza in contesti disparati. Vi è un gruppo però con il quale Vinaccia negli ultimi anni si è esibito ...

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Very Much Alive

Read "Very Much Alive" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

[NOTE]: This review is being republished as a celebration of just one aspect of the life of drummer Paolo Vinaccia, who passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer on July 5, 2019. Best-known in Norway, where he emigrated from Italy in 1979, enjoying a busy career with artists including Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal, Mike Mainieri, Bendik Hofseth, Bugge Wesseltoft and Palle Mikkelborg, amongst many others. Vinaccia's big heart and warm concern for others made him everybody's best friend, and ...

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Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville

Read "Live at Belleville" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

More than forty years ago, Norwegian bassist, Arild Andersen joined saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the late Finnish drummer Edward Vesala to record the groundbreaking Triptykon (ECM 1972), one of these musicians' most energized work. It's a happy coincidence that the new millennium has seen both Garbarek and Andersen--ECM artists, both--create what may be their individual masterpieces--Live at Belleville, in the bassist's case. Andersen's intervening ECM years have generated an impressive catalog of high quality work including Molde Concert (1982), Sagn ...

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Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville

Read "Live at Belleville" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Colto dal vivo nell'omonimo club di Oslo, Live at Belleville è il coronamento di un tour europeo iniziato a Uppsala, in Svezia, da questo nuovo trio del contrabbassista norvegese Arild Andersen. Cambio deciso di direzione rispetto al precedente raffinato ed orchestrale Electra che segna il ritorno a una formazione asciutta e rigorosa, di stampo più jazzistico. Qui troviamo infatti un trio caratterizzato da grande equilibrio e doti tecniche. Il leader è affiancato dal sassofonista scozzese Tommy Smith e dal compagno ...

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Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville

Read "Live at Belleville" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The general international perception of Norway's jazz scene as “Nordic Cool," is, like most generalizations, inevitably distanced from truth. Atomic, The Core and Motif may possess no shortage of heat, but ECM has undeniably helped define that unmistakable Norwegian aesthetic. One of the “big four," brought to international attention in the early 1970s alongside guitarist Terje Rypdal, saxophonist Jan Garbarek, and drummer Jon Christensen, bassist Arild Andersen's ECM releases have largely avoided the kind of burning improvisational energy of his ...

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