Results for "CAM Jazz"

Kenny Wheeler: It Takes Two!

by Karl A.D. Evangelista
August 2, 2006

Kenny Wheeler's music may be likened to a waking dream--the cool, ethereal alternative to the incendiary abandon of his peers. There is a strange dichotomy between the wooly, often weird trumpeter who participated in the salad days of European free improvisation and the man who cut It Takes Two!, the veritable embodiment of musical restraint. Much ...

Kenny Wheeler: It Takes Two!

by Paul Olson
August 1, 2006

Two guitarists, that is. While Kenny Wheeler has recorded with John Abercrombie and John Parricelli before, he hasn't done so on the same session. Until now, anyway: It Takes Two! matches the veteran trumpeter with the two guitarists and acoustic bassist Anders Jormin. The results are spacious, calm, and at times broodingly pensive.Parricelli and ...

Kenny Wheeler: It Takes Two!

by John Kelman
July 29, 2006

Kenny Wheeler's career has been almost singularly defined by its unpredictability, but It Takes Two! may be the trumpeter's biggest surprise yet. No stranger to unorthodox combinations, a two-guitar/bass lineup allows Wheeler's compositions to head in some unexpected directions. The material bears the melancholy lyricism that's been an unmistakable signature of his career. But It Takes ...

Diego Urcola: Viva

by John Kelman
June 28, 2006

With a predominantly Latino lineup and a title like Viva, one might expect trumpeter Diego Urcola's latest release to be heavy on joyous Latin rhythms. However, like his earlier work, it's much broader in scope. His last record, Soundances (Sunnyside, 2003), recorded with an all-Argentinean cast, managed to blur the boundaries between his cultural roots and ...

Javier Girotto: New York Sessions

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 20, 2006

Tra tanghi e reminescenze sud-americane, Javier Girotto, argentino de' Roma, rischiava di rimanere ingabbiato in un cliché che, per quanto interessante, resta pur sempre un cliché. Ma Girotto è musicista intelligente, ed ha quindi deciso di cambiare gioco, registrando un album che partendo dagli echi di casa (Che Querido, CHE) sposta poi la musica verso altri ...

Francesco Cafiso: Happy Time

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 14, 2006

Il nostro ragazzo prodigio, il più giovane veterano del jazz italiano, suona bene. Molto bene. Se così non fosse, Wynton Marsalis non l'avrebbe chiamato al Lincoln Center. In questo album Cafiso ci propone una serie di composizioni originali, tutte rigorosamente mainstream, ognuna dedicata ad una persona (o personalità) che ha avuto una certa rilevanza nella sua ...

Diego Urcola: Viva

by Victor Verney
June 4, 2006

Antonello Salis: Pianosolo

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 22, 2006

Recensire un disco di Antonello Salis è un’operazione rischiosa e quantomeno incompleta, vista la straordinaria importanza che la gestualità del corpo, il rapporto fisico con lo strumento ed il contatto con il pubblico rivestono nella musica dell’ artista sardo. Se aggiungiamo che il disco in questione è un piano solo, una sorta di prova della verità ...

Michel Godard: Cousins Germain

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2006

Scorrendo i nomi dei musicisti coinvolti in questo nuovo progetto del tubista transalpino, ci si immagina un lavoro che respiri l'atmosfere della free musik europea. Invece, già dal primo brano, “Visite”, un tema lento e dinoccolato, con il soprano a fare da mattatore, si capisce che Godard ha convocato i suoi “cugini” tedeschi pensando a ben ...

Francesco Cafiso: Happy Time

by Nic Jones
April 10, 2006

What's in a title? In this case, a whole lot of helpful clues about the music on this disc. Francesco Cafiso was sixteen at the time he committed this music to posterity, and to say that he has everything a musician working in the modern mainstream context needs is not hyperbole. A pedant might argue that ...