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Album Review

Niklas Lukassen: Still Waters

Read "Still Waters" reviewed by Konstantin N. Rega

by Konstantin N. Rega

Multi-instrumentalist Niklas Lukassen spins a pleasant mix of tunes on Still Waters. Joined by a stellar team, including saxophonist Ben van Gelder, pianist Kit Downes and drummer Francesco Ciniglio (as well as several others spotted throughout), the quartet moves with the ease of skilled swimmers through the music. An internationally influenced album, the music reflects his own life experiences of traveling through Europe as well as studying under bassist Ron Carter at the Manhattan School of Music. Now teaching in London, the musician still makes ...

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Album Review

Mirna Bogdanovic: Confrontation

Read "Confrontation" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Arrestingly postmodern and warmly familiar in the same space, Mirna Bogdanović's fourth release, Confrontation, stops just short of dismantling contemporary jazz and pop in favor of retaining those elements that tickle the memory's nostalgia receptors in such a way that the listener recognises the music as compelling, while at the same time not being able to explain why. This dichotomy represents a core intention of all art: the ability to evoke awe and confusion (manifested as sudden wonder). The Berlin-based ...

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Dave McDonnell Group: The Dragon & the Griffin

Read "The Dragon & the Griffin" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Chicagoano ma attivo a Cincinnati, Dave McDonnell è sassofonista jazz, insegnante di musica e tecnologia, inventore di software, protagonista in diversi gruppi tra cui Herculaneum. Il gruppo in questione coinvolge nomi ben noti della attuale scena di Chicago, tra cui Joshua Abrams e Frank Rosaly, poderosa sezione ritmica che in questo caso garantisce solidità a una musica non troppo avventurosa benchè disinvolta. Le composizioni, talune in cinque quarti, sfruttano patterns ripetitivi con pochi centri tonali e chiamano ...

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Album Review

Marc Lohr & Gerat7: Stick No Bill

Read "Stick No Bill" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

"Parte di questa musica è stata scritta dopo un soggiorno di due mesi nel Sud dell'India. Anche se non influenzata direttamente la musica riflette elementi come il caos, i rumori, la tristezza e la gioia presenti nella vita quotidiana indiana". Le note di copertina a firma del leader (cresciuto in Lussemburgo ma formatosi in Olanda e Danimarca) sono un po' fuorvianti. A leggerle prima di ascoltare il disco si rimarrebbe spiazzati. Ci si aspetterebbe infatti una musica profumata d'Oriente, incantatoria ...

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