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Amnesiac Quartet: Tribute to Radiohead Vol. 2
by Mehdi El Mouden
Anyone who has listened to the sound of Radiohead would confess that the English rock band breaks out of the ordinary. Devoid of harmonic complexity, dissonance, or technical virtuosity that would qualify Radiohead's music as highly sophisticated, the sound is nevertheless quite unique and pregnant with deep melancholic emotions that lead vocalist Thom Yorke asserts well ...
Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: No Morphine No Lilies
by AAJ Italy Staff
No Morphine No Lilies è album che soddisferà palati eterogenei, trasversali, curiosi, esigenti. La batterista e compositrice Allison Miller ha frequentato nel corso della sua carriera ambiti e ambienti musicali i più disparati trovando nella formazione denominata Boom Tic Boom - qui al secondo lavoro discografico dopo l'omonimo, acclamato album di debutto - il tramite ideale ...
Gina Kronstadt: Come Over
by Bruce Lindsay
Gina Kronstadt has graced recordings by many musical giants, including Dr John, Charlie Haden, Rod Stewart and Aretha Franklin. Most of the time it's her talent as a violinist that's called upon. For her debut release as leader, Come Over, she puts the violin to one side and concentrates on singing: original songs of love, with ...
eBraam: 3
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il vulcanico tastierista olandese Michiel Braam si esprime con diverse formazioni (proprie o collettive, di pura improvvisazione o dedite alla più organica composizione), ma sempre con inalterata e fervida inventiva, con una propensione per le espressioni eccentriche e frenetiche, per un astruso sensazionalismo degli effetti sonori. Il gruppo eBraam rappresenta l'evoluzione del precedente Wurli Trio e ...
Jonathan Moritz Trio: Secret Tempo
by Mark Corroto
Great chefs can make a delicious meal out of just a handful of ingredients. So can great musicians. A simple omelet prepared from happy free range chicken eggs, plus some freshly plucked basil can set the palate reeling. For a jazz chef like saxophonist Jonathan Moritz, his simple fresh ingredients includes a trim ensemble of bassist ...
Daniele Cavallanti & The Brotherhood Creative Trance Music Ensemble: Faces and Tales
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chapeau! a Daniele Cavallanti, sassofonista e compositore di lungo corso che vanta ormai una carriera ultraquarantennale e che è noto nell'ambiente per il suo approccio ecumenico alla materia sotto le bandiere e le sigle più diverse: Democratic Orchestra Milano, Nexus, Italian Instabile Orchestra, Jazz Chromatic Ensemble, Black Hole Quartet, solo per citare i “gruppi" e non ...
Musson - Noble - Sanders: Tatterdemalion
by Glenn Astarita
Tatterdemalion: the album title refers to someone who wears tattered clothing, a simile that may parallel the unadorned and rather raucous proceedings enacted by this trio's thoroughly “free" approach to jazz improvisation. You won't find pieces that intimate a sea of tranquility. It's more about an in-your-face type workout featuring saxophonist Rachel Musson's hardcore expressionism. However, ...
Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: Live at “A Space” 1975
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa riedizione ha un sapore particolarmente piccante. Intanto perchè riguarda un concerto che segna l'esordio discografico di George Lewis; poi perchè sono recuperati ben venti minuti di musica non presenti sull'edizione originale di questo disco, tra cui una versione della coltraniana “Naima," rarissimo caso di tributo realizzato dai “chicagoani". Nel 1975 Roscoe Mitchell aveva già elaborato ...
Lyn Stanley: Lost In Romance
by Nicholas F. Mondello
A hardened cynic might presume that the song royalty beneficiaries of the estates of Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin and other song giants would mercenarily welcome yet another Great American Songbook-rich recording by a female vocalist. However, when those warhorse ("wornhorse?") compositions--and a few shrewdly selected other ones--are sent up tails-and-gowns ...
Matt Mitchell: Fiction
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Matt Mitchell's debut solo recording, Fiction, is actually a duo recording. And while it is a performance of fifteen compositions, the music was originally conceived of as etudes, or short pieces--exercises to improve the pianist's ability to incorporate improvisation into composed music.Mitchell is quite the in-demand sideman. He can be heard in Tim ...
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