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Marco Bittelli: Alba

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 11, 2013

Il chitarrista italiano Marco Bittelli ci propone questo album intitolato Alba, il secondo da leader, che lo vede impegnato alla testa di un sestetto tutto americano che in alcuni casi si allarga per ospitare il contributo di altri tre musicisti. I brani sono tutti originali e sono tutti scritti da Marco Bittelli con l'eccezione del brano ...

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Jasper Lundgaard / Bob Rockwell / Doug Raney / Henrik Gunde, Aage Tanggaard: Love & Peace: The Music of Harold Parlan

Read "Love & Peace: The Music of Harold Parlan" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
September 11, 2013

Maybe it was the mournful sound of the foghorns belonging to the ships passing below the Great Belt Bridge. Or the music he'd just been listening to, and featured on this album. But Harold Parlan's thoughts strayed from the care home where he now lives in the small Danish coastal town of Korsør (pop. 14,501) to ...

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Will Bernard: Just Like Downtown

Read "Just Like Downtown" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 11, 2013

Guitarist Will Bernard has been connected to a number of singular groups and individuals, from the Monk-to-funk outfit known as T.J. Kirk to New Orleans drumming giant Stanton Moore to multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum's boundary-pushing Hieroglyphics Ensemble, but a common denominator exists in his strongest work with each one: Bernard's best is always rooted in the groove. ...

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Luca Aquino: aQustico

Read "aQustico" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2013

L'attività di Aquino non si arresta (e perché mai dovrebbe, d'altronde?), trovando nel sodalizio artistico-produttivo con Paolo Fresu (aQustico è il secondo lavoro edito dalla Tùk, dopo Chiaro, del 2011) nuova linfa e rinnovati stimoli. Del tutto nuovo anche il gruppo a cui il non ancora quarantenne trombettista beneventano affida le sue più recenti composizioni (in ...

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Jacques Schwarz-Bart Quartet: The Art of Dreaming

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2013

The Art of Dreaming è l'ultimo lavoro registrato dal sassofonista francese (ma, come giustamente tiene lui a precisare, con sangue misto nelle vene) Jacques Schwarz-Bart con il suo quartetto più recente, con il quale ha girato l'Europa dall'inizio del decennio e che, oltre al leader, comprende il pianista Baptiste Trotignon, il contrabbassista Thomas Bramerie ed il ...

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The Impossible Gentlemen: Internationally Recognisable Aliens

Read "Internationally Recognisable Aliens" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 10, 2013

When you come out of the gate as strongly as The Impossible Gentlemen (Basho, 2011), you create a pretty high set of expectations for the follow-up. Of course, when it's a quartet of musicians this accomplished--a transatlantic, trans-generational group consisting of a living legend (bassist Steve Swallow), a less-known but equally active American cohort (drummer Adam ...

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Pascal Le Boeuf: Pascal’s Triangle

Read "Pascal’s Triangle" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2013

La musica di Pascal's Triangle si sviluppa nell'alveo di un modern mainstream, basato sul solido interplay dei musicisti. Va elogiato lo sforzo compositivo del leader, autore delle otto composizioni originali del CD. Spiccano linee melodiche morbide e temi godibili, con prevalenza dei tempi medi. Abbandonate per il momento le suggestioni dell'elettronica, l'eclettico leader dà vita ad ...

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Antoine Fafard: Occultus Tramitis

Read "Occultus Tramitis" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 10, 2013

An unanticipated surprise in the form of a new album is always welcome. And the star-studded cast of jazz, jazz fusion and progressive rock performers here is somewhat of an eye-opener, especially when considering that UK bassist Antoine Fafard (Spaced Out) is not a household name in the US. Gathering a supporting cast of this stature ...

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Ben Webster: In Norway

Read "In Norway" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
September 10, 2013

Ben Webster refused to fly. When he visited Norway from Denmark, his adopted homeland, he went by boat and when he got there would blame his somewhat uncertain gait on his “sea legs," rather than the large amounts of alcohol he had consumed in the vessel's bar. Sometimes his “sea legs" were so bad, initial concerts ...

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Mamsell Zazou: The Ocean Next Door

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2013

Questo raffinato album si muove pigramente fra Vienna (dove è stato registrato nel mese di aprile del 2011) e Berlino (dove è stato masterizzato nel mese di maggio del 2012). È un lavoro rarefatto e in chiaroscuro, che vede la voce di Christine Boersch-Supan dominare la scena col suo cantato che lascia intravedere le lezioni mitteleuropee ...