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Don Aliquo: Jazz Folk

By AAJ Italy Staff
February 7, 2007
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Un classico quintetto bop, la classica front line sax-tromba, nove tracce dalla struttura tema-assoli-tema che più classica non si può, la classica alternanza di up-tempo e slow-tempo. E’ tutta qui la fotografia di Jazz Folk, quarto album da leder del sassofonista Don Aliquo, rappresentante assai quotato, sebbene poco noto dalle nostre parti, del cosiddetto modern mainstream.

Si potrebbe dire che le otto composizioni originali sono formalmente impeccabili e ricoprono un vasto ventaglio dello stile boppistico e dei suoi numerosi derivati. Si potrebbe dire che il suono del tenore di Aliquo è caldo, suadente, fluido e che i compagni di viaggio (su tutti il veterano Rufus Reid al contrabbasso) si trovano pienamente a proprio agio, formando un perfetto meccanismo ad orologeria.

Si potrebbe... ma alla fine si rimane con la sensazione di aver ascoltato l’ennesimo disco uguale a tanti altri, come tanti altri perfettamente eseguito e registrato e, come tanti altri, lentamente scivolato nel dimenticatoio.

Track Listing

Jazz Folk; This Is New; Spiral Staircase; Forever on My Mind; Peaceful Flame; Time and Again; Never Never Land; Frayed; Come Out and Play

Personnel

Don Aliquo

saxophone, soprano

Clay Jenkins

trumpet

Rufus Reid

bass, acoustic

Jim White

drums

Dana Landry

piano

Album information

Title: Jazz Folk | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Self Produced

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