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Nicola Conte: Umoja
by Chris May
Nicola Conte continues on his journey from acid-jazz bohemian to spiritual-jazz sophisticate with this immaculately hip album, fronted on half of its tracks by London-based soul-jazz divas Zara McFarlane and Bridgette Amofah. Conte began his trajectory with the acid-jazz template Jet Sounds (Schema, 2000), boosted it with Jet Sounds Revisited (Schema, 2002) and, after a brief post-hard-bop detour with Other Directions (Blue Note, 2004), began the spiritual-jazz ascent which has in 2023 reached its new, lofty apogee with ...
Continue ReadingTimo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen: Live Recordings 2019-2020
by Friedrich Kunzmann
The Finnish pairing of Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen belongs to the kind of collaborations where one really doesn't know what to expect next, but that whatever it is, it's bound to be quite extraordinary. Both respected leaders in their own right and busy musicians in contexts that reach far beyond the boundaries of jazz, the two appear to be at their best when performing together. This collection of live material, recorded at We Jazz Festival, Porvoo Jazz Festival and ...
Continue ReadingTimo Lassy: In with Lassy
by Anthony Shaw
Timo Lassy is one of the not-quite-so-young generation of Finnish musicians to have risen thru the ranks of the generous local system of music education, starting out as a toddler on piano, and gravitating in his early teens to saxophone. He cut his teeth in Amsterdam at the end of the old century and since returning home has been involved in the front line of modern Finnish jazz, first with the U-Street All Stars and more spectacularly with the Five ...
Continue ReadingThe Five Corners Quintet: Chasin' The Jazz Gone By
by Budd Kopman
Chasin' The Jazz Gone By is the product of producer Tuomas Kallio, who wanted to recreate, using both analog and digital equipment, the sound and the visceral coolness of jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, which means the Blue Note sound of hard bop. And make no mistake, this record is very, very cool, deeply enjoyable in an almost time-warp way. The Five Corners Quintet actually exists in two forms, live and recorded. The live group routinely ...
Continue ReadingU - Street All Stars: Bowling
by AAJ Italy Staff
Suonano hard bop coniugato con il funky e il soul. Non sono afroamericani, ma bianchissimi filandesi che in una manciata di anni si sono imposti sulla scena delle nuove leve jazzistiche. Nati nel 2000 proprio in un locale trendy di una delle più affollate vie di Helsinki, Uudenmaankatu, parola impronunciabile che sta per U - Street, i cinque musicisti (due sassofonisti, un chitarrista e una robusta sezione ritmica) hanno attratto l’attenzione della critica finlandese e poi della Blue Note. Bowling, ...
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