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Roy Budd: Get Carter

Read "Get Carter" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

A classic movie needs a classic soundtrack, and composer and pianist Roy Budd delivered that with his music for Mike Hodges' iconic crime movie, Get Carter (1971). Without the opportunity of working with a grand orchestra, he made the most out of a low budget and tailored the sounds to the raw realism of the movie. ...

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Guillermo Klein: Swiss Jazz Orchestra & Guillermo Klein

Read "Swiss Jazz Orchestra & Guillermo Klein" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Attiva da 16 anni, la Swiss Jazz Orchestra ha raggiunto un eccellente livello professionale, grazie al lavoro continuativo (suona regolarmente ogni lunedi notte nella sede Bierhübeli di Berna), al valore dei suoi musicisti e al coinvolgimento di prestigiosi ospiti, solisti o arrangiatori stranieri. Tra i collaboratori regolari c'è Guillermo Klein, con cui l'orchestra pubblica ora un ...

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Roberto Negro: Kings and Bastards

Read "Kings and Bastards" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Torinese di nascita, apolide per formazione, da anni residente in Francia, Roberto Negro è uno dei giovani musicisti più interessanti, messosi in luce per le sue collaborazioni con altri valenti giovani come Emile Parisien e Theo Ceccaldi. Perennemente in equilibrio tra la classica contemporanea, l'improvvisazione libera e il jazz, sempre pronto a esplorare ogni atmosfera timbrica, ...

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Anders Lonne Gronseth: Theory Of Anything

Read "Theory Of Anything" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

2018 saw the release of the eponymous debut of Norwegian reedman Anders Lonne Gronseth's quintet, Multiverse (Pling Music). 2019 opened the door to Theory Of Anything, music recorded by the group at the same session. The sound is Nordic cool and patient in its unfolding, with Gronseth's compositions leaving the doors wide open to spontaneity and ...

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Fabrizio Sciacca: Gettin' It There

Read "Gettin' It There" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Make no mistake about it, Fabrizio Sciacca isn't merely “gettin' it there." He's already got it here. This debut from the Berklee- and Manhattan School of Music-trained bassist presents an artist with solid intonation, impeccable time, a warm and enveloping tone, and an ear for melody. In short, he has it all. Leading ...

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Gabriel Ferrandini: Volúpias

Read "Volúpias" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Portuguese drummer Gabriel Ferrandini seeks out a different path on Volúpias. He puts aside the bustling asymmetric momentum, familiar from his tenure in the celebrated Red Trio and with saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio, to explore compositional realms. In 2016 he started his new approach with an artistic residency in the prestigious ZDB venue, where he ...

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The Hot Sardines: Welcome Home, Bon Voyage

Read "Welcome Home, Bon Voyage" reviewed by John Bricker

by John Bricker

The Hot Sardines' impressive musicianship and infectious energy make it hard to accept that early 1900s swing and proto-jazz ever went out of style. The New York-based eight-piece band gives a perfect example of how they revitalize classics on Welcome Home, Bon Voyage, a collection of live recordings from sets at Joe's Pub in New York ...

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Michele Rabbia - Gianluca Petrella - Eivind Aarset: Lost River

Read "Lost River" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

There is a bewitching soundscape from a group of subtle and skilled aural sculptors on this beautifully abstract ECM Records session. The players' backgrounds touch on jazz, electronics, European folk and much more, but none of that really matters here. Their approach on Lost River is free of form and convention in the most liberating sense. ...

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Mark Wingfield & Gary Husband: Tor & Vale

Read "Tor & Vale" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Virtuoso guitarist Mark Wingfield was last heard leading a trio on Tales From The Dreaming City (MoonJune Records, 2018). He and pianist Gary Husband may have never played duets together before, but the results sound like it was inevitable--a fated meeting. Opener “Kittiwake" is the first of Wingfield's compositions, a lyrical legato guitar line over a ...

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The Band: Woodstock

Read "Woodstock" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

When the Band took the stage at Woodstock, late Sunday evening, August 17, 1969, they were a little over a month away from releasing their second recording, The Band (Capitol, the “Brown Album") and a year past the release of their debut recording, Music from Big Pink (Capitol, 1968). Later, on January 12, 1970, the group ...


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