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Brian Landrus' Kaleidoscope: Mirage

by Dave Wayne
September 17, 2013

Thus far, every recording by low-end multi-reed artist Brian Landrus has been refreshingly different. The NEC grad burst on to the scene a few years back with Forward (Cadence Jazz Records, 2008) a richly textured free-leaning acoustic jazz album created with a large ensemble of seasoned jazz veterans such as pianist Michael Cain and drummer Bob ...

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Billy Bang: Da Bang!

Read "Da Bang!" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 17, 2013

Da Bang!, registrato il 2 e 3 febbraio a Helsinki, è con tutta probabilità l'ultima registrazione del violinista Billy Bang, deceduto solo due mesi più tardi a New York per un male incurabile. Nel solito elegante libretto che accompagna le pubblicazioni TUM Records sono riportati alcuni brevi poemi declamati dagli stessi autori (Amiri Baraka il più ...

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Maurice Johnson: Peace Love & Jazz

Read "Peace Love & Jazz" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
September 17, 2013

Since forming his band in Oklahoma City in 1985, guitarist Maurice Johnson has carefully carved out a niche in the local jazz scene there and on his release Peace Love & Jazz, he displays the talent, tone, and technique to be a force to reckon with for years to come. The multi-talented Johnson is also a ...

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Graham Parker and the Rumour: Live at Rockpalast 1978 + 1980 (2CD / 2 DVD)

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 17, 2013

Graham Parker è stato uno dei rocker inglesi che meglio ha saputo fondere l'energia del rock con la carica virulenta del punk. I suoi concerti dal vivo, della seconda metà degli anni settanta, erano pieni di musica tosta che ricordava in qualche modo l'approccio di band storiche come i Rolling Stones e i Them di Van ...

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Mirko Signorile: Magnolia

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 16, 2013

Un concept album con protagonista una bambina alla scoperta del mondo che le sta attorno: è questa l'idea che sta alla base del nuovo progetto discografico di Mirko Signorile, pubblicato nella Piano Series di Auand. Collocazione ineccepibile, dal momento che si tratta a tutti gli effetti di un disco fatto essenzialmente di musica per pianoforte. Pianoforte, ...

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Asuka Kakitani Jazz Orchestra: Bloom

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 16, 2013

Qualcuno sta disperatamente cercando di tenere in vita la tradizione delle orchestre jazzistiche, malgrado la crisi dei mondi, le lamentele dei 'bottom line managers' che sono solo capaci di dire che i conti non tornano. Bella forza, loro guardano solo alla riga finale del bilancio e non hanno la più pallida idea di cosa ci sia ...

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Mary Halvorson - Kirk Knuffke - Matt Wilson: Sifter

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by AAJ Italy Staff
September 16, 2013

Il nome di Mary Halvorson sta giustamente trovando anche da noi consensi e riconoscimento: la sua musica sempre originale [specialmente con il proprio trio o quintetto, ora allargato a settetto in un recentissimo e splendido disco, Illusionary Sea], la sua capacità di comunicare con ascoltatori generazionalmente e stilisticamente variegati sono alla base del suo successo. Meno ...

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Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning

Read "Saturday Morning" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
September 16, 2013

"Play like Jamal," Miles Davis told his pianists in the mid 1950s. The trumpeter was not shy about recruiting band leaders or poaching their musicians, so you might suppose he canvassed Jamal. But the pianist maintains Davis never popped the question. Interviewed in 2012, he side-stepped the subject, saying that he was in any case too ...

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Vana Gierig: Making Memories

Read "Making Memories" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 16, 2013

German-born, New York-based pianist Vana Gierig was making memorable music long before Making Memories came into existence. This Berklee and New England Conservatory-trained ivory tickler has been turning heads with his own work, and through sideman stints with everybody from über-hip cabaret singer Ute Lemper to violinist Regina Carter, for quite some time, but no single ...

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Gina Kronstadt: Come Over

Read "Come Over" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
September 16, 2013

Everybody wants to be a star and everybody wants their turn in the spotlight. The recent documentary 20 Feet From Stardom focused on the struggles of background singers to emerge from the shadows. Gina Kronstadt can surely identify with that struggle.Whatever motivated Kronstadt's debut, Come Over, she demonstrates she's ready for her close-up. A ...