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Paolo Fresu & Uri Caine: Things
by AAJ Italy Staff
Uno, Paolo Fresu, sta esportando da oltre vent'anni in tutto il mondo la freschezza e la qualità del jazz italiano, è titolare di progetti che esplorano un ampio spettro di interessi non solo musicali, oltre a essere la vulcanica mente del festival di Berchidda, rassegna tra le più originali e apprezzate del panorama jazzistico estivo. L'altro, ...
Hank Mobley: Another Workout
by Samuel Chell
Hank Mobley Another Workout Blue Note 2006 (1961/1985) I can scarcely remember the last time an anticipated new" release has afforded as much immediate pleasure as this one. Go with a single horn player--arguably the most melodically fertile tenor saxophonist of his time--and give him the support of a rhythm ...
Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery
by Russ Musto
The tribute album allows an artist to document his indebtedness to another's influence on his own style with a more fully formed personal approach and individual voice. It shines a spotlight on the honoree's body of work in a way that no single record in that artist's discography did during his lifetime. And it introduces a ...
Joe Lovano: Streams of Expression
by Tom Greenland
Joe Lovano never fails to create an impression. Streams of Expression, his eighteenth release for Blue Note, is a suite-within-a-suite that honors and signifies upon a considerable amount of jazz history--cool, modal, avant, bop--with authority and individuality. The centerpiece of the album is the Birth of the Cool Suite," a tribute to the chamber jazz outings ...
Patricia Barber: Mythologies
by Jim Santella
In much the same way that a visual artist paints memorable themes on canvas, Patricia Barber puts her ideas into music by establishing an open avenue of communication with her audience. Her voice is always a pleasure. Her piano work is comfortable in the context of her role as storyteller. Her compositions are deep enough that ...
Tania Maria: Intimidade
by Jim Santella
Now in her late 50s, Tania Maria Correa Reis continues to bring all the energy and zip to her performances that she did when she recorded her first album in 1971. 26 albums later, she's still Brazil's queen of the funky jazz samba. Her welcome combination of lively rhythms and sultry ballads brings the versatile program ...
Joe Lovano: Streams Of Expression
by Troy Collins
Joe Lovano Streams Of Expression Blue Note 2006 Saxophonist Joe Lovano's second collaboration with the estimable composer and arranger Gunther Schuller finds the two musicians navigating similar territory as their 1995 collaboration, Rush Hour (Blue Note). Boasting a similarly varied line-up and mix of compositions, the album ...
Grant Green: Live at Club Mozambique
by Norman Weinstein
This is some apotheosis of both jazz-funk and Grant Green, just when you thought Blue Note was practicing overexposure by adding yet another Green disk to last year's three discs worth of funky compilations. But this live session, which spent 35 years in the vault, transcends all previous Grant Green funk sessions by a mile.
Joe Lovano: Streams of Expression
by John Kelman
British woodwind player Tim Garland has praised Joe Lovano for the way he looks forward and backwards on the horn simultaneously, covering the whole tradition, yet looking way, way forward at the same time. Nowhere is this more evident than on Streams of Expression, where the woodwind multi-instrumentalist teams up with Third Stream progenitor Gunther Schuller ...
Joe Lovano: Streams of Expression
by Jim Santella
Were he still with us, Miles Davis would have turned eighty this year. But he is still with us through his music and the influence that he had on jazz all over the world, for all those who have been influenced by his poise and flair. With an interpretation of the Birth of the ...


