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Reverso: Shooting Star - Etoile Filante
by Vincenzo Roggero
Il piacere dell'ascolto, il gusto per le piccole cose, la scoperta dei particolari, l'atmosfera che ti avvolge suadente, la sensazione di sentirsi a casa, in una comfort zone che scivola in piacevoli ricordi sospesi tra sogno e realtà. Shooting Star-Etoile Filante è il titolo dell'album, Reverso il nome del trio composto da due europei--il pianista tedesco Frank Woeste, il violoncellista francese Vincent Courtois--e uno statunitense, il trombonista Ryan Keberle. Formazione di stampo cameristico, volendo proprio appiccicare un'etichetta, ...
Continue ReadingRyan Keberle's Collectiv do Brasil: Considerando
by Maurizio Zerbo
Considerando è una delle realizzazioni più mature e riuscite di jazz brasiliano negli ultimi anni. Ne è protagonista uno straordinario quartetto in grado di riproporre da una prospettiva più complessa la tradizione rivisitata, regalando al pubblico una delle letture più eleganti e raffinate di questo repertorio. La collaborazione tra Ryan Keberle e il gruppo di San Paolo Collectiv do Brasil arriva al secondo capitolo di un progetto che evita accuratamente le formule manieristiche o da cartolina oggi purtroppo ...
Continue ReadingDial and DeRosa: Keep Swingin'
by Jack Bowers
Keep Swingin', a splendid new album from pianist Garry Dial and drummer Rich DeRosa, features “the music of Charlie Banacos." Charlie who? you may ask. And the answer is, there are jazz educators, and then there was Charlie Banacos, whose talent and ingenuity in the classroom influenced and inspired countless jazz musicians for more than fifty years. During that time, he designed more than a hundred courses of study and wrote half a dozen books on composition and improvisation.
Continue ReadingJohn La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard
by Jack Bowers
Composer/arranger John La Barbera has been at the top of his game for more than half a century, and Grooveyard is simply another example of his undiminished artistry. Besides arranging everything--superbly, as always--La Barbera wrote six of the session's ten charming songs, escorting other treasures by Carl Perkins, Dave Brubeck, Curtis Fuller and Elvin Jones. As he writes his handsome and colorful big-band charts, La Barbera is always careful to observe Rule No. 1: they have to ...
Continue ReadingDarcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension
by Angelo Leonardi
Precursore nel 2009 (con l'innovativo Infernal Machines) del nuovo rinascimento orchestrale nel jazz, Darcy James Argue approda all'etichetta Nonesuch e pubblica il nuovo album in studio: un doppio CD realizzato con i consueti partner della Secret Society più l'aggiunta della cantante Cecile McLorin Salvant e della violinista Sara Caswell. A differenza degli ultimi due dischi, Dynamic Maximum Tension non è un'opera multimediale ma conserva la spinta visionaria animata dalla costante riflessione socio-politica. Spinta che si traduce in ...
Continue ReadingDarcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension
by Katchie Cartwright
Darcy James Argue's superb double-album Nonesuch debut offers compositions written throughout his career. He turns to twentieth-century thinkers for “ideas that can help us in the present, that we can reexamine and reconfigure for our own purposes." These include futurist designer Buckminster Fuller, cryptanalyst-computer scientist Alan Turing, composer-arranger Bob Brookmeyer, actress-screenwriter Mae West, trumpeter-mentor Laurie Frink, and musician-beyond-category Duke Ellington, among others. Like West, Argue seems to control his own path. He may not yet be the tycoon she was, ...
Continue ReadingThe John La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The geometry, if you will, of a terrific big band recording is such that the three major elements--the players, the arrangements, and the performance--balance in every regard. Grooveyard from the John La Barbera Big Band is such an offering. The album features ten masterfully selected, arranged, and performed selections, each containing outstanding section, solo, and ensemble playing. Wes Montgomery's “Grooveyard" launches a hip, swinging first course in which tenor man Pat La Barbera and guitarist Brandon Coleman ...
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