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Harry Skoler: Red Brick Hill
by Angelo Leonardi
Metodo catartico. Con questa tecnica, ideata da Freud e Breuer nelle prime fasi della psicoanalisi, si aiutavano i pazienti ad affrontare i postumi di un trauma. Da allora gli psicoterapeuti hanno perfezionato i loro metodi ma fuori dagli studi professionali anche l'arte s'è rivelata un mezzo per affrontare le ferite della psiche. Ad esempio con l'opportunità ...
Thelonius Garcia: Marche Nocturne
by Dan McClenaghan
The first name Thelonious--does it come from the word theology? Is a parent giving a newborn a form of divinity with the appellation? This is speculation; the answer is up in the air, but the most famous Thelonious is Thelonious Sphere Monk, one of the brightest of jazz stars to emerge in the age of bebop. ...
Jeff Rupert: It Gets Better
by Jack Bowers
Florida-based tenor saxophonist Jeff Rupert leads a superlative quartet on It Gets Better, a graceful and charming album recorded September 2021 at the renowned Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey. While comparisons to other musicians are as a rule less than viable, the striking similarities between Rupert and the late jazz giant Stan Getz cannot simply ...
Justin Chart: Night Heat
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Justin Chart is known for his cinematic, entirely improvised, live sessions. A stalwart of the Los Angeles, and Southern California, jazz scene, Chart has several superb albums to his credit. His 2024 record, Night Heat, maintains the same level of sophistication and spontaneity. It is culled from two separate appearances with different sidemen and consists ...
Satoko Inoue: Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso nei mesi di aprile e luglio 2022, questo album ci restituisce uno spaccato piuttosto significativo di una serie di recenti pagine per pianoforte, per lo più solitario, del compositore giapponese Jo Kondo, oggi settantasettenne, di cui è nota una sia pur fugace frequentazione di John Cage e Morton Feldman, pagine di cui è protagonista la ...
Miklós Lukács: Timeless
by Ian Patterson
Miklós Lukács is one of the world's premier players of the cimbalom, the modern extension of the hammered dulcimer. The progenitors of today's cimbalom, common to many folk traditions, date to Mesopotamia circa 670 BC, or so ancient stone carvings suggest. Lukács is no stranger to folk music, but he is equally at home interpreting Franz ...
Hilario Rodeiro Quinteto: Pausa
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer and composer Hilario Rodeiro Quinteto's PAUSA(which, no surprise, means pause" in Spanish) invites listeners on a refreshing journey through jazz, with the band's rich heritage and innovative flair woven into every note. Led by Rodeiro, a Spanish musician from the Basque country, this quintet serves up a skillful mix of traditional Galician flavors and contemporary ...
John Fedchock: Justifiably J.J.
by Jack Bowers
Among jazz trombonists with a sense of history, the name J.J. Johnson is spoken with an admiration that borders on reverence. Johnson was a pacesetter, a creative and articulate slideman and improviser who, either alone or with sometime partner Kai Winding, held the keys to the trombone kingdom from the early 1940s until his retirement more ...
Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10: A Beautiful Day, Revisited
by Alberto Bazzurro
Registrato dal vivo al Birdland dal 24 al 26 gennaio 2002, il materiale di questo doppio CD (nonché doppio vinile) raggiunge oggi i quasi 83 minuti di durata, aggiungendo, rispetto all'edizione originaria uscita pochi mesi dopo il concerto, un'alternate take inedita del brano che intitola l'album e una versione ampliata di 11/8," riposizionando nel contempo i ...
Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)
by Troy Dostert
There has always been room in jazz for those creative minds who can bridge the gap between the heart of tradition and the leading edge of change. In the world of saxophonists, Thomas Chapin, Arthur Blythe, Julius Hemphill or David Murray easily come to mind. Multi-instrumentalist Caleb Wheeler Curtis has similarly explored this terrain for years, ...


