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Nguyên Lê: Homescape
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista franco-vietnamita Nguyên Lê affronta con i due amici Paolo Fresu e Dhafer Youssef una nuova sfida per la quale si da regole piuttosto interessanti che caratterizzano a livello strutturale e produttivo questo Homescape, un titolo decisamente programmatico. L’idea è per l’appunto quella di utilizzare come ‘locus’ creativo lo studio di registrazione domestico del musicista, ...
Ulf Wakenius: Notes From The Heart
by AAJ Italy Staff
“Solo pochi diamanti, dal suo immenso tesoro”: Ulf Wakenius è andato a scegliere alcune pietre preziose - undici in tutto - che risplendono particolarmente per senso della melodia, dal repertorio jarrettiano. Una sognante “Memories Of Tomorrow”, una dolcissima “Innocence”, assieme alla più ritmate “Dancing”, “The Windup”, “U-Dance”, sono queste le “Notes From the Heart” che uno ...
Alboran Trio: Meltemi
by Chris May
The German ACT Music label is a strange one. Fitfully brilliant--as with the Esbjorn Svensson Trio's ongoing canon, and with recent discs by Nguyen Le and Julia Hulsmann--it has also released numerous bland, MOR-pitched albums which have precious little to do with creative jazz. Many of these have been produced by the slick but featherweight trombonist, ...
Don Friedman: Piano Works VI: From A To Z
by Chris May
At a venerable 71 years old, California-born pianist Don Friedman still has his formidable technique firmly in place. He's playing with the attack of a young man--and the devil-may-care abandon of a mature artist wholly at ease with himself. The subtitle From A To Z refers to Friedman's friend and collaborator, the Hungarian guitarist Attila Zoller ...
Hugo Siegmeth: Red Onions: Celebrating Sidney Bechet
by Chris May
Against the odds, this is an audacious and mesmerising album--the second tribute album in as many weeks, after Pat Martino's Remember: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery, to confound expectations. Hugo Siegmeth is a 36 year-old German reed player whose style owes nothing to the great soprano saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet (1897-1959). His astringent and quirky ...
Nils Landgren & Joe Sample: Creole Love Call
by Tracey Nolan
From the first bars of “Get Out of My Life, Woman, which feature Joe Sample banging out a funky left hand rift, to Nils Landgren's laid-back vocals on “Soul Shadows, one thing is obvious about their new recording: Creole Love Call is all about New Orleans. Landgren and Sample got together to make this record and ...
Nguyen Le Duos: Homescape
by Chris May
Where does jazz stop and world music start? The boundaries are getting more blurred by the minute. We're all postmodernists now, and many musicians under fifty reflect a range of influences beyond those traditionally associated with their own core style. Some, like French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, are so polyglot as to be practically beyond category. Le ...
Esbjorn Svensson: Viaticum
by Renato Wardle
The Esbjörn Svensson Trio, a self-proclaimed “pop group that plays jazz," exists in between the musical realms of the ECM juggernaut Bobo Stenson Trio and art rockers Radiohead. Viaticum represents a culmination of years of relentless cooperative musical discovery for the group, which has been together since 1993. This music, possessed of a cinematic ...
Julia Hulsmann Trio With Roger Cicero: Good Morning Midnight
by Chris May
Emily Dickinson isn't the first name to spring to mind when you're thinking poetry and jazz. Rural (she lived in Amherst, Massachusetts all her life), introspective, and of strict Calvinist upbringing, Dickinson and jazz sound about as likely as Baz Lurman and a biopic about St Francis of Assissi. But the unlikeliest of bedfellows sometimes make ...
Daerr - Sieverts - Jütte: Germany 12 Points - Celebrating Ralph Siegel
by AAJ Italy Staff
Prima che ai musicisti, tre bravissimi giovani tedeschi, i complimemnti andrebbero fatti al produttore Siegfried Loch della ACT, che li ha valorizzati e dato un'idea precisa su cui sviluppare il loro lavoro. L'idea dietro questo progetto dal titolo singolare - Germany 12 Points - è un omaggio al compositore Ralph Siegel in occasione del suo sessantesimo ...
