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Charles Mingus Sextet [with Eric Dolphy]: Cornell 1964
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chissà dove si trovava questo nastro! In qualche cassetto, magari tra un maglione fuori moda e un fascicolo di vecchie carte! O c'è una forza magica e misteriosa che fa riapparire ogni tanto, come bolle sulla superficie di una pozza immobile, dei frammenti della storia musicale del Novecento e ce li restituisce come pietre preziose. Cronologicamente ...
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964
by Mark F. Turner
The hype factor was cranked up considerably in 2005 for the unearthed recording of two jazz legends: John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk's At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note). Things have cooled down a tad since that momentous release but just as exciting and equally important is Cornell 1964 featuring the Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy.
Jacky Terrasson: Mirror
by Mark Corroto
If you had to write a headline for the career of Jacky Terrasson it might be “from brash to brilliant." The forty-something pianist took the jazz world by storm, winning the Thelonious Monk piano competition in 1993 only to make some impetuous records that wowed you with his talent. But they didn't register high with their ...
Art Taylor: A.T.'S Delight
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con Art Blakey, Art Taylor rappresenta al meglio le caratteristiche più tipiche del drumming dell’hardbop. Incisivo, dinamico, multicolore ma anche duttile, come dimostrano le sue collaborazioni discografiche a tutto campo con Coltrane, Davis, Coleman Hawkins e mille altre stelle del firmamento jazzistico, tra gli anni ’50 e ’60. Art’s Delight è il suo terzo disco da ...
Suzanne Vega: Beauty & Crime
by Ken Kase
Once the public face of a largely over-hyped folk music resurgence in the mid-eighties, Suzanne Vega has remained remarkably consistent. Early in her career, popular successes such as the hits “Luca" and “Tom's Diner, while padding the artist's purse, have unfortunately overshadowed her accomplishments as a songwriter. Over the years, she would embrace and discard a ...
Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Lovano is an old-school saxophonist, a throwback to the golden age of jazz. While he has, of course, incorporated modern innovations introduced by saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, as well as others into his style, his exuberant playing maintains a direct line through the history of jazz, incorporating swing, bebop, big band, and modal ...
Jacky Terrasson: Mirror
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Solo piano is a risky business: if the pianist hasn't got the stuff, there's absolutely nothing to hide behind. It's not enough to noodle aimlessly, pretending that every note is profound, or to fill the air with thunderous pounding that's more noise than brilliance. There should be real substance: thoughtfulness in both the choice of material ...
Bill Frisell / Matt Chamberlain / Lee Townsend / Tucker Martine: Floratone
by John Kelman
The role of producer can range from bean counter and clock watcher to active musical participant, involved with details of arrangement and instrumentation. Still, it's almost unprecedented to see a collaborative group that lists not one, but two producers as actual band members. Even Teo Macero, who during Miles Davis' electric period, used innovative editing techniques ...
Robert Glasper: In My Element
by Chris May
Pianist Robert Glasper's embrace of hip hop--which is being foregrounded by Blue Note, presumably as a device to widen his trio's appeal--is, truth be told, overstated going on misleading. For at its core, Glasper's music is everything that hip hop is not, or anyway not what it is perceived to be. In My Element--a wonderfully rounded ...
Blue Mitchell: Down With It!
by Matt Leskovic
It's about time that everyone gets down with Blue Mitchell. During an era when hard bop giants roamed the earth, trumpeter Blue Mitchell was overshadowed by his more brash contemporaries such as Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard. While Mitchell may have not been the most daring hard bop trumpeter, he was unquestionably one of ...
