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Roxana Amed: Becoming Human
by Angelo Leonardi
La vocalist Argentina Roxana Amed torna a incidere con i partner a lei più affini, quelli con cui ha registrato i primi album negli Stati Uniti: il pianista Martin Bejerano, il sassofonista, clarinettista e arrangiatore Mark Small, il bassista Edward Perez e il batterista Ludwig Afonso. Al cast s'è unito il trombonista Kendall Moore che ha scritto alcuni arrangiamenti. Registrato nell'ottobre 2023, l'album è prodotto col finanziamento “New Jazz Works" di Chamber Music America, già assegnato a Wayne ...
Continue ReadingRoxana Amed, Jasper Høiby, Angelica Sanchez, Chad Taylor & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Dynamic elegance may be the trait that the albums featured in this set have in common, so we hope you'll be elegantly surprised!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Jazz Defenders “The Long Haul" Memory in Motion (ITI) 0:16 Host talks 4:58 Roxana Amed “Those Horses Running in the Mist" Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin) 7:06 Jasper Høiby “Earthness" What It Means to Be Human (Edition) 11:27 Aaron ...
Continue ReadingRoxana Amed: A Prayer
by John Chacona
The U.S. recording career of Argentine-born vocalist Roxana Amed is a study in the frustration that assumptions about genre can create. Both 2021's Ontology and the following year's Unánime, released by Sony Music, were nominated for Latin Grammy Awards. That was well-deserved, yet these were also among the best jazz vocal recordings of those years. Her 2023 Sony Music release Los Trabajos Y Las Noches, to texts by Argentinean poet Alejandra Pizarnik, is backed by a trio of Frank Carlberg ...
Continue ReadingRoxana Amed, Frank Calberg: Los Trabajos Y Las Noches
by Angelo Leonardi
La seconda collaborazione tra la cantante argentina Roxana Amed e il pianista finlandese Frank Carlberg continua a esplorare l'introspettivo mondo della poetessa Alejandra Pizarnik. Dopo La sombra de su sombra questo progetto prende il nome da uno dei massimi testi della poetessa, “Los trabajos y las noches," scritto nel 1965 dopo il suo ritorno a Buenos Aires dal lungo soggiorno parigino. Sette anni dopo si sarebbe tolta la vita all'età di 36 anni. Anche stavolta Carlberg ha ...
Continue ReadingRoxana Amed, Anthony Hervey, Bill Evans and Others
by Jerome Wilson
This show features newer music including a set of Latin American female vocalists as well as some choice older tunes. Artists heard include Roxana Amed, Edward Simon, Bill Evans, Anthony Hervey, and Brad LInde. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Kaisa's Machine “Aurora Unbound" from Taking Shape (Greenleaf Music) 00:58 Brad Linde “Into Thin Air" from Into Thin Air ...
Continue ReadingRoxana Amed: Unánime
by Angelo Leonardi
La relazione tra jazz e musiche latine è quanto mai vasta e risale ai primi del Novecento ma il termine latin jazz è stato generalmente limitato alle relazioni col bacino caraibico, rese popolari dai vari Machito, Mario Bauza, Tito Puente, Chico O'Farrill eccetera. La cantante argentina Roxana Amed è tra quelle personalità musicali impegnate a ridefinire e ampliare ciò che si intende comunemente con questo termine. È un fenomeno ricco di contenuti che cresce nel tempo e ...
Continue ReadingRoxana Amed: Collecting Memories
by Leo Sidran
When singer/songwriter/educator Roxana Amed moved from her home in Argentina to the United States, she didn't walk. But she might as well have. She describes her new record as being like “a bag full of songs and memories" that she collected on her way from one shore to another. She seems to stand with one foot wading in the waters of the Hudson River and the other in the Rio de la Plata.She left Buenos Aires with an ...
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