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Roxana Amed: Becoming Human

Angelo Leonardi By Angelo Leonardi

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La vocalist Argentina Roxana Amed torna a incidere con i partner a lei più affini, quelli con cui ha registrato i primi album negli Stati Uniti: il pianista Martin Bejerano, il sassofonista, clarinettista e arrangiatore Mark Small, il bassista Edward Perez e il batterista Ludwig Afonso. Al cast s'è unito il trombonista Kendall Moore che ha scritto alcuni arrangiamenti.

Registrato nell'ottobre 2023, l'album è prodotto col finanziamento "New Jazz Works" di Chamber Music America, già assegnato a Wayne Shorter, Billy Childs, Brian Lynch e altri.

Il percorso musicale consta di undici brani, quasi tutti scritti dalla cantante, con testi autobiografici e riflessioni sul suo percorso artistico. Uno sviluppo intimo, con le interpretazioni di Roxana adagiate in colloquiali introspezioni o libere esplorazioni vocali che si snodano in stretta relazione col pianoforte.

Un mondo lirico e rarefatto con qualche lucida sperimentazione (il convulso "Wild") che si unisce alla tradizione mainstream nel dinamicamente modale "Then We Build a Home" (con incisivi interventi di Small al sax tenore e Afonso alla batteria). Ancora una prova significati di una vocalist quanto mai personale, lontana dagli schemi tipici dell'universo latino e dai percorsi usuali del jazz vocale contemporaneo.

Track Listing

A Prayer; Pequeña Voz; Un Destello; Our Days of Summer; Those Horses Running in the Mist; Climbing Up My Spine; Wild; Then We Built a Home; In This Lonely Room; Una Plegaria; Epílogo.

Personnel

Roxana Amed
vocals
Mark Small
saxophone, tenor
Kendall Moore
trombone
Edward Perez
bass, acoustic

Album information

Title: Becoming Human | Year Released: 2024 | Record Label: Sony Music


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