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WHO Trio: Live At Jazz Festival Willisau 2023

Read "Live At Jazz Festival Willisau 2023" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Ci sono molti modi per affrontare/reinterpretare standard e songs, recitano le accurate note di copertina, ma affrontare Duke Ellington richiede uno step ulteriore, pena lo scivolare nel deja vu, nel già sentito, tra stereotipi o stravolgimenti fuori luogo. WHO Trio, formazione che da oltre venticinque anni scandaglia i meandri della libera improvvisazione e dei suoi legami con la tradizione, lo fa alla sua maniera. “ Abbiamo semplicemente cercato di suonare questo meraviglioso materiale -afferma Gerry Hemingway -con ...

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WHO Trio: Live At Jazz Festival Willisau 2023

Read "Live At Jazz Festival Willisau 2023" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

This jewel of an album was released just too late for inclusion in AAJ's Best Jazz Albums of 2024: All-Star Break Edition, where contributors were invited to name their three best albums released during the first half of the year (the article can be read here). But five gets you ten that it will be included in at least one end-of-year best-albums list. And that is not the only headline. Live At Jazz Festival Willisau 2023 is that rarer than ...

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WHO Trio: Strell - The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington

Read "Strell - The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Nel 2018 il Who Trio ha festeggiato vent'anni di attività, varando per l'occasione il progetto Strell, dedicato alla rilettura del repertorio di Billy Strayhorn e Duke Ellington, operazione certo non nuova--tutt'altro--e per la quale la prospettiva di rilettura, l'angolo visuale, diventa di conseguenza basilare. In questo album, inciso quasi per intero in studio a Losanna nel maggio 2019 (fa eccezione “Passion Flower," ripresa dal vivo un anno prima nella stessa città), il lavoro di scavo e ricostruzione (o ...

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Who Trio: The Current Underneath

Read "The Current Underneath" reviewed by Ty Cumbie

by Ty Cumbie

This new Who Trio (Michel Wintsch, Gerry Hemingway, Banz Oester) recording is a pastiche of improvised and written, live and studio pieces. As a free improviser, pianist Wintsch often opts for moody, drifting chords, melody percolating out of a gently boiling ground--too edgy to be New Age, not happy enough to be smooth jazz. His compositions tend to be much more jaunty, with big, unabashed mainstream jazz styles deftly employed then as quickly discarded.Most of The Current Underneath ...

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