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Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta: Tirtha
by AAJ Italy Staff
In Tirtha prevale il jazz o la musica indiana? La domanda è oziosa; il CD appartiene infatti a una lunga tradizione di incrocio fra le due culture, e non solo, di cui le esperienze di John McLaughlin da quarant'anni a questa parte hanno costituito uno dei precedenti più noti. Ma da quei precedenti questo gruppo si ...
Nguyen Le: Songs of Freedom
by John Kelman
For over twenty years, Nguyên Lê has collaborated with a growing cadre of like-minded musicians--mostly Paris-based, where the guitarist of Vietnamese origins resides--building a body of work that is, in the truest sense of the word, “world music." From the Afro-centric band Ultramarine, and exploration of his own roots on the seminal Tales from Vietnam (ACT, ...
Bohuslan Big Band: Don't Fence Me In
by Bruce Lindsay
Some of the finest compositions in The Great American Songbook, one of Europe's most talented big bands and one of the best arrangers Britain has produced. Put them all together on one CD, and it doesn't disappoint. The Cole Porter songs on Don't Fence Me In are among the most familiar in popular music, but while ...
Magnus Ostrom: Thread Of Life
by Bruce Lindsay
Thread Of Life is drummer Magnus Öström's debut as leader, after 15 years with the Esbjörn Svensson Trio. e.s.t. was one of the most successful jazz ensembles ever to emerge from Europe, gaining not only critical acclaim but also commercial success. It's a hard act for Öström to follow, and it's to his immense credit that, ...
Vijay Iyer: Tirtha
by Mark F. Turner
A confluence of ideas is encountered in the kinetic and unusual Tirtha, featuring three South Asian luminaries: the critically acclaimed jazz pianist Vijay Iyer; and his equally accomplished trio-mates, guitarist/composer Prasanna, and tablaist Nitin Mitta. Iyer formed the band in 2007 when asked to put together a concert celebrating 60 years of Indian independence. The title ...
Iiro Rantala: Lost heroes
by Bruce Lindsay
German record label ACT Music is rapidly cornering the market in stylish solo piano albums. With Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala's Lost Heroes, it adds another distinctive and glorious recording to its collection, alongside Gwilym Simcock's Good Days At Schloss Elmau (2011) and Danilo Rea's A Tribute To Fabrizio De André (2010), among others. ...
Yaron Herman Trio: Follow the White Rabbit
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dotato di eleganza e asciuttezza, lo stile di Yaron Herman ha ben impressionato il pubblico del jazz. Promettente giocatore di basket fino a diventare membro della nazionale di Israele, ma reduce da un grave infortunio, il pianista israeliano prosegue la sua opera dopo A Time for Everything e Muse. In questo Follow the White Rabbit, più ...
Joachim Kühn / Majid Bekkas / Ramon Lopez: Chalaba
by Bruce Lindsay
The sleeve notes to Chalaba describe German pianist and alto saxophonist Joachim Kühn as a veteran “of the conscious avant-garde." This is certainly accurate--he's worked with Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman, among others--but the description sounds rather forbidding, a portent of some serious and complex sounds for the mind but not the body. Thankfully it misleads: ...
Verneri Pohjola: Aurora
by Bruce Lindsay
Finnish trumpeter/composer Verneri Pohjola comes from a well-established family of jazz musicians: both his father, famed bassist Pekka Pohjola, and his younger brother, trombonist Ilmari, join him here. Pohjola was voted Musician Of The Year by Finnish jazz critics in 2004, but Aurora is his debut as leader. This is a work of immense beauty which ...
Gwilym Simcock: Good Days At Schloss Elmau
by Bruce Lindsay
The world of jazz is currently enjoying a surfeit of great piano players, and the ACT label is home to some of the most innovative: musicians such as Michael Wollny of [em], Yaron Herman and Danilo Rea. Gwilym Simcock is the latest addition to the ACT roster with his solo Good Days At Schloss Elmau, a ...
