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Elton Dean Quartet: On Italian Roads (Live in Milan 1979)

Read "On Italian Roads (Live in Milan 1979)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Registrato (su cassetta) il 25 febbraio 1979 al Teatro Cristallo di Milano, il nastro di questo concerto ha dovuto attendere la bellezza di quarantatré anni, ma alla fine, grazie alla caparbietà e alla dedizione alla causa di Riccardo Bergerone, che dell'odierno CD (in impeccabile digipack a sei facciate) condivide la responsabilità delle note di copertina con Roberto Ottaviano, è oggi disponibile per i nostri lettori e le nostre orecchie. Ed è un'autentica festa, perché, al di là ...

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Album Review

Karl Evangelista: Apura!

Read "Apura!" reviewed by John Sharpe


One sure-fire way for up-and-coming musicians to get attention is to convene an all star combo. Though Bay Area-based Filipino-American guitarist (and sometime AAJ scribe) Karl Evangelista follows that route on his fourth album Apura! he makes surprising but astute choices of bandmates by enlisting the services of legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and the British pair of veteran saxophonist Trevor Watts and rising star pianist Alexander Hawkins. As Evangelista explains in the liner notes, the music of early ...

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Radio & Podcasts

“Bass-ic" Strokes for Discerning Folks

Read "“Bass-ic" Strokes for Discerning Folks" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


The double bass is rather well-represented in this show. New recordings featuring some great bassists as leaders come from Miles Perkin, Benjamin Hedquist, and Andrew Schiller, while other recordings feature Mario Pavone, Ville Rauhala with Hot Heros, Brett Hirst with Phil Slater, Brad Jones with Tenor Triage, Matt Brewer with Steve Lehman, Giovanni Maier with Cene Resnik, and the formidable John Stevens on Louis Moholo-Moholo's Four Blokes. Playlist Tenor Triage “The Fifth" from Tenor Triage (Ropeadope) 00:00 ...

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Album Review

Louis Moholo-Moholo's Five Blokes: Uplift The People

Read "Uplift The People" reviewed by John Sharpe


At last an album which captures some of the intense excitement, wayward adventure and sheer joy of a group which has wowed audiences at festivals and clubs across Europe and North America. Uplift The People by South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo's prosaically-named Five Blokes was recorded live at London's Cafe Oto in April 2017 and represents an upgrade on Four Blokes (Ogun, 2014) in every sense. The blokes in question include long time collaborators Jason Yarde on saxophones, John Edwards ...

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Live Review

Alexander Hawkins - Louis Moholo-Moholo alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

Read "Alexander Hawkins - Louis Moholo-Moholo alla Sala Vanni di Firenze" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Musicus Concentus Superjazz Firenze, Sala Vanni 21.11.2014

Per il quarto e ultimo appuntamento di Superjazz, di scena a Firenze due musicisti ben distanti tra loro per generazioni, ma assai prossimi per taluni aspetti della loro sensibilità musicale: il giovane pianista britannico Alexander Hawkins e il settantaquattrenne batterista sudafricano Louis Moholo-Moholo.

Hawkins è una delle più apprezzate promesse del momento, oltre che come pianista anche come bandleader; Moholo invece faceva parte di quel manipolo ...

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Live Review

Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet At The Crescent Arts Centre

Read "Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet At The Crescent Arts Centre" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Louis Moholo-Moholo The Crescent Arts Centre Belfast October 30, 2014 Ireland has been graced by the presence of two South African musical icons in October. First, the brilliant, seventy-five-year-old trumpeter Hugh Masekela played jny:Dublin and then a little over a week later Louis Moholo-Moholo--younger by a year--kicked up a storm in jny: Belfast. That Masekela was playing the 1,200 seater National Concert Hall while Moholo-Moholo played to about sixty people in an intimate club ...

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Live Review

Torino Jazz Festival 2014

Read "Torino Jazz Festival 2014" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Varie sedi--25.04-1.05.2014 Benché bersagliata da intemperanze meteorologiche d'altro canto non nuove, in questa sede, la terza edizione del Torino Jazz Festival (seconda sotto la direzione artistica di Stefano Zenni) ha visto una partecipazione di pubblico che definiremmo oceanica, al punto che--per esempio--si è rivelato praticamente impossibile accedere ai concerti in giro per i club (gratuiti, come quasi tutto il resto) a meno di non poter privilegiare il singolo appuntamento, presentandosi conseguentemente in loco con lauto anticipo, il ...


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