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Yang Jing - Christy Doran: No. 9
by AAJ Italy Staff
Irlandese lui, cinese lei. Da tempo residenti in Svizzera. Le loro culture sono partite da luoghi lontanissimi ma dimostrano di potersi incontrare, trovando innumerevoli punti di intesa. Anche i loro strumenti sono in parte omologhi (per la parte strutturale), in parte lontanissimi (per il linguaggio sin qui sviluppato). Ma non ci dobbiamo meravigliare se la pipa ...
Arrigo Cappelletti Quintet: Hot Music
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist Arrigo Cappelletti's third album for UK-based Leo Records merges the best of many jazz propositions. With fellow Italians manning the frontline and the Norwegian rhythm section tendering sympathetic accompaniment, the musicians focus on melodic content, used as a vehicle for numerous song forms and extrapolations. Extremely tight and well-rehearsed, Cappelletti directs the quintet through knotty ...
Gregory Porter: Liquid Spirit
by Bruce Lindsay
Gregory Porter has a lot to live up to. Widespread critical acclaim, Grammy nominations and reviewers suggesting that he's the next big jazz star, the man to bring jazz back to mainstream popularity, all lay a big artistic burden on his (admittedly quite broad) shoulders. Liquid Spirit is his third album and it heralds a move ...
Buck Clayton Legacy Band: Claytonia
by Jack Bowers
Buck Clayton, an acclaimed trumpet soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s and early '40s, had lip surgery in 1969 that all but ended his playing career. After setting the trumpet aside for good in 1979, he turned full-time to composing and arranging, and the Buck Clayton Big Band made its debut in ...
Acquaphonica: Private Enemy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Federica Colangelo - pianista romana di studi classici a Londra, poi jazzistici a Roma (con Gwiss) e in Olanda (tra gli altri con John Taylor) - riunisce una band internazionale - statunitense il sassofonista, olandese il chitarrista, bulgaro il contrabbassista, lettone il batterista - per registrare (in Germania!) quest'opera prima di Acquaphonica, quintetto che suona assieme ...
Billy Cobham: Compass Point
by Glenn Astarita
Few if any jazz-fusion drummers have been more influential than Billy Cobham, along with his modern jazz drumming for legends such as Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner and other notables. Yet touring has its trials and tribulations, noted in the album liners on this previously unissued 2-CD set, presenting live material from the drummer's 1997 show at ...
Jonathan Kreisberg: One
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista Jonathan Kreisberg è già ben noto agli appassionati di jazz e di chitarra, ad esempio per la sua militanza nel trio dell'organista Dr. Lonnie Smith o nei gruppi del vibrafonista Joe Locke (leggi la recensione di Sticks and Strings). Dopo avere pubblicato a suo nome gli album The South of Everywhere (nel 2007) e ...
Ig Henneman: Live@The Ironworks Vancouver
by AAJ Italy Staff
Musicista e compositrice sfuggevole a una facile etichettatura, con Live@The Ironworks Vancouver Ig Henneman pubblica il secondo album alla guida del suo atipico sestetto drumless, registrato al culmine del tour canadese del 2012. L'introduzione del disco è demandata alla inquieta “Tracks," cui segue “Prelude for the Lady with the Hammer," una melodia monkiana, minimalista, vivacizzata da ...
Jocelyn Pook: Untold Things
by Nenad Georgievski
Composer Jocelyn Pook is one of the great treasures of the music world. The breadth and depth of influences and instrumentation incorporated into her work is almost unprecedented. Known primarily for her groundbreaking and imaginative soundtrack work for films and TV--seamlessly weaving into her work aspects of classical, world, electronic and early music in order to ...
Ornette Coleman / Bachir Attar / The Master Musicians of Jajouka: The Road to Jajouka
by Chris May
Jazz has been mixing it up with traditional Moroccan music for almost fifty years. Pianist Randy Weston was a pioneer in the late 1960s, followed by saxophonist Ornette Coleman in the early 1970s. A modern successor to those early adventurers is Boston's Club D'Elf, which describes itself as a “Moroccan-dosed psychedelic dub and jazz collective." Club ...
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