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Judy Wexler: What I See
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Judy Wexler is more than a mere singer of songs. She's an actress, mood painter, song archaeologist and vocalist par excellence, and those designations shouldn't be taken as independent virtues; they all merge in her marvelous musical pursuits. When I See is Wexler's fourth album, but it only took two--Easy On The ...
Shrunken Head Shop: Live in Germany
by Glenn Astarita
This international group is captured performing improvised music in Germany, featuring guest trumpeter Dave Laczko on three tracks that reside somewhere between Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) era and experimental trumpeter Jon Hassell's work. Laczko and guitar whiz Willie Oteri have also recorded under the moniker WD-41. Indeed, both artists are known for pushing the ...
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do: Time Stands Still
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo Heat Wave e Desert Ship, questo Time Stands Still è il terzo CD del Satoko Fujii Ma-Do, quartetto tutto giapponese nato nell'ottobre 2007. Purtroppo sarà anche l'ultimo nella medesima formazione, in quanto il bassista Norikatsu Koreyasu è improvvisamente deceduto il 23 settembre 2011, esattamente tre mesi dopo che Time Stands Still fu inciso a New ...
Stefano Bollani / Hamilton de Holanda: O que sera
by John Kelman
Intentional or not, ECM's simultaneously release of Iranian kamencheh master Kayhan Kalhor and Turkish baglama expert Erdal Erzincan's Kula Kulluk Yakişir Mi (2013) with O que será, which captures a positively electrifying 2012 performance by efferverscent Italian pianist Stefano Bollani and Brazilian bandolim virtuoso Hamilton de Holanda, does more than merely celebrate the intimate potential of ...
Christian Muthspiel: Seaven Teares
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trombonista Christian Muthspiel, fratello del noto chitarrista Wolfgang, dichiara di essere sempre stato affascinato dalla musica del Rinascimento, con particolare riferimento alle composizioni dell'inglese John Dowland, vissuto dal 1563 al 1626 e da qualche tempo al centro di rinnovate attenzioni da parte di musicisti quali John Surman col suo Downland Project (Care-Charming Sleep Romaria, Luce ...
Iro Haarla Sextet: Kolibri
by Eyal Hareuveni
Finnish Pianist-composer Iro Haarla's compositions for her sextet emphasize her aim to reach a different, larger sound than the sound of her Finnish-Norwegian quintet (Northbound and Vespers, both on ECM, 2006 and 2011). This sextet is comprised of top Finnish musicians who collaborated closely with her in the past and began to work as the sextet ...
Samo Salamon Quartets: Stretching Out
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dal punto di vista fisico, l'ultimo lavoro discografico del chitarrista sloveno Samo Salamon si presenta come un doppio CD. Dal punto di vista musicale, siamo invece di fronte a due album ben distinti. Registrati con formazioni diverse (un quartetto americano ed un quartetto europeo), in periodi diversi (nel 2008 il primo, nel 2012 il secondo), e ...
Mary Halvorson Septet: Illusionary Sea
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Mary Halvorson's signature sound and methodologies have been making an impact within avant-garde and progressive-jazz circles on a global basis. Illusionary Sea marks the debut of her septet, comprised of impressionable players often residing at the forefront of the newer kindling of what may loosely be classified as jazz. Here, like minds coalesce for an ...
Lorraine Feather: Attachments
by C. Michael Bailey
First, there is “who exactly is Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather?" Well, she is the daughter of jazz writer and impresario Leonard Feather (1914 -1994) and Jane Feather, a former big-band singer and ex-roommate of Peggy Lee (ergo “Lee"). The Billie in Feather's name is her godmother, Billie Holiday, and the Jane, well that is obvious. ...
Lisa Hilton: Getaway
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nei suoi CD la Hilton sa bene come mettere in mostra le rilevanti doti di pianista. In Getaway (uscito due anni dopo Underground), attraverso undici composizioni originali e due standard, la forma-canzone è il punto di partenza per una varietà di spunti. Grazie anche alla presenza di una ritmica di livello assoluto, il trio firma un ...
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