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Dianne Reeves: When You Know
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che Dianne Reeves sia una diva dall’ugola d’oro nessuno lo mette in dubbio. Ha vinto per ben quattro volte il Grammy, e di recente un oscar per la colonna sonora del film “Good Night and Good Luck" di George Clooney. Ha una voce possente e chiara, che si estende a piacere fino ad abbracciare le orecchie dell’ascoltatore come un ciclone. Di note. Ha raccontato che il disco è uscito fuori dalla necessità di celebrare differenti fasi dell’amore in una donna. ...
Continue ReadingRussell Malone: Live at The Jazz Standard, Volume Two
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz was meant to be recorded live on the bandstand. It is spontaneous music ruled by improvisation and invention in real time. There exist precious few bad live jazz recordings. This is a ready indication of the high quality of musicianship jazz requires for proper performance and the necessity of said jazz musicians to think quickly on their feet. MaxJazz has been making it a point to capture its artists in live settings and has done so with unparalleled success, ...
Continue ReadingRussell Malone: Live at Jazz Standard, Volume One
by Jim Santella
Dedicated to the memories of jazz guitarist Ted Greene and jazz pianist John Hicks, this session features Russell Malone at work in New York with his band during a spirited three-night run at the Jazz Standard in September 2005.
Always one to keep the blues alive in his mainstream jazz programs, Malone communicates eloquently through his guitar with a soft-edged attack that carries vocal-like through the room, as if lyrics were attached to every phrase.
It goes way beyond his ...
Continue ReadingAa.Vv.: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
by AAJ Italy Staff
Strettissimo collaboratore di Duke Ellington per quasi trent’anni, Billy Strayhorn è uno dei grandi autori della storia del jazz. Basta scorrere i titoli dei brani contenuti in questo album per rinfrescarsi la memoria. Oggi, a quarant’anni dalla sua scomparsa, l’etichetta Blue Note pubblica questo CD, nel quale alcune delle sue più famose composizioni vengono interpretate da un nucleo di artisti davvero impressionante. Al di là del singolo brano, o della declinazione che ad esso viene attribuita dai singoli musicisti, quello ...
Continue ReadingRussell Malone: Live At Jazz Standard
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Russell Malone played a week-long engagement at Jazz Standard in November, ostensibly to promote the release of this album. Malone was backed on both ventures by the solid rhythm section of bassist Tassili Bond, pianist Martin Bejerano and drummer Johnathan Blake.
A lyrical, inventive guitarist, you can almost see Malone thinking out loud on the bandstand. And once he's formulated his ideas, it's full speed ahead, with dazzling rapid-fire arpeggios and single-note lines punctuated by octaves. He brightened the ...
Continue ReadingRussell Malone: Live at Jazz Standard, Volume One
by Victor Verney
Russell Malone usually doesn't like to write about his recordings, he says, preferring instead “to let the music speak for itself." However, he makes an exception here to point out that this is his first live recording with his working band, a fact that's a little surprising to learn. Malone goes on to note his gratification at being able to make this recording at the Jazz Standard, terming it “one of the finest venues in New York." (Incidentally, several top-shelf ...
Continue ReadingRussell Malone: Live at Jazz Standard, Volume One
by C. Michael Bailey
Russell Malone gets his Grant Green freak on....
Guitarist Russell Malone answers his well-received Playground (MaxJazz, 2004) with this, his first live recording, documenting performances at New York's Jazz Standard. Malone has traded recent over-populated groups for his working band, a simple piano trio. The trio, under crack pianist Martin Bejerano's sharp direction, conveys a solid momentum and cyclotron swing.
Only two “standards appear among the disc's seven pieces, and Malone easily proves himself an excellent ...
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