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Alex Sadnik: Flight

Read "Flight" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz


What is new to say through Charlie Parker's music? On Flight Alex Sadnik looks for answers with two different bands. On the first side of the LP, his alto fronts a quintet with violin, pedal steel guitar, bass,and drums, but this is not a Bob Wills or Bill Frisell pastiche. The opening track, “Donna Lee," stretches and compresses Parker's speedy contrafact of “Indiana" into a medium waltz. Both Sadnik's alto tone and the metric liberties taken with ...

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Crepuscule Trio: Unveil

Read "Unveil" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ecco un buon esempio dell'attuale sperimentazione californiana che paga il giusto tributo verso un certo free storico. I tre improvvisatori, provenienti da formazioni/esperienze composite e non più giovani (il batterista è decisamente il più anziano dei tre), sono attivi in vari contesti nell'area di Los Angeles, senza aver raggiunto una notorietà internazionale. Il CD, inciso a cavallo fra 2008 e 2009, è il risultato di tre anni di collaborazione. I temi, tre di Cook, quattro di Kawamura e tre a ...

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The Anthony Shadduck Quartet: Debut

Read "Debut" reviewed by Ian Patterson


An acoustic bass, an acoustic drum and clarinet may bring to mind the small combos of Benny Goodman or Buddy DeFranco, but when you add guitarist Nels Cline to the equation (armed with his box of electronics to boot) then you can be sure that the cat will go tearing out of the room. Indeed, from the beginning of “The Stars of Stage, Screen and Radiology, with its anguished, animal-like screeches from clarinet and the rapid, angular guitar lines, it ...


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