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Tim Green: Songs from This Season

Read "Songs from This Season" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 29, 2013

Questo primo disco dell'altoista Tim Green si può leggere in tanti modi. Appena inserito nel lettore, ti catapulta indietro di mezzo secolo, agli stilemi di una registrazione Blue Note del periodo modale e postmodale, con Shorter che la faceva da padrone e sfornava composizioni a raffica. Di Shorter, non a caso, è uno dei due brani ...

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Ron Boustead: Mosaic

by Edward Blanco
August 29, 2013

Offering a musical canvas of light beautiful material, Los Angeles-based composer/singer Ron Boustead delivers a one-of-a kind musical treasure on the highly entertaining Mosaic. Containing four originals and jazz-influenced, reworked pop standards from the likes of James Taylor, Carole King, Bill Withers and Jon Lucien among others, Boustead produces a superbly presented “jazz-pop concoction" of gorgeous ...

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Steve Gadd Band: Gadditude

Read "Gadditude" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 28, 2013

Drummer Steve Gadd, the man responsible for some of the most memorable grooves and explosive drum solos on record, is often looked at as a perpetual sideman and session giant. Over the past four decades he's laid down the rhythmic law for everybody from Steely Dan to James Taylor and Chick Corea to Paul Simon, but ...

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Melodic Art-Tet: Melodic Art-Tet

Read "Melodic Art-Tet" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
August 28, 2013

Once again the Lithuanian No Business label has unearthed a little known relic from the lower strata of NYC's loft jazz era. Like The Group's Live (No Business, 2013), the previous beneficiary of the imprint's ongoing investigation, the Melodic Art-Tet never officially recorded so this 1974 broadcast tape from WKCR represents the only surviving fragment of ...

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Dinamitri Jazz Folklore: La società delle maschere

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 28, 2013

Fin dalla fondazione del suo Dinamitri jazz Folklore, l'obiettivo di Dimitri Grechi Espinoza è stato quello di creare un collettivo affiatato e compatto, quasi una comunità simbiotica di musicisti tesi a perseguire una medesima prassi improvvisativa, se non proprio a condividere uno stile di vita comunitario, in cui il leader è il guru, la guida carismatica ...

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Steven Lugerner: For We Have Heard

Read "For We Have Heard" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 28, 2013

Multi-woodwind expert Steve Lugerner's solo outing for this Lithuania-based progressive/avant-jazz record label enters the market as a limited edition of only 500 LPs. Get them while they last, as some would say. And it's a very distinctive performance, duly capturing the earthy attributes of this all-star lineup's contrasting song forms and extraordinary synergy, clocking in at ...

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Sedo: Sedo

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 28, 2013

Strano e di difficile collocazione sugli scaffali (che è sempre un bene) questo trio composto dal pianista Daniele Tione (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del suo disco in solo, Nightglow), dal percussionista Gigi Biolcati (già nell'originale trio Alboran, ma anche membro di Banditaliana, quartetto di Riccardo Tesi) e dalla cantante Eleonora Simeone. La particolarità sta ...

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Ike Quebec: Easy Living

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by Greg Simmons
August 28, 2013

Ike Quebec is one of those funny figures in Blue Note Records' history. By the late fifties, after he'd been out of recording for a number of years, he was too old to really be at the hard-bop vanguard (he was born in 1918) but not old enough to be a senior statesman like Coleman Hawkins ...

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Mo' Blow: Gimme The Boots

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 28, 2013

Dopo i consensi ottenuti in patria con Funkatristic (2008) e For Those About to Funk (2011), il gruppo tedesco torna sul mercato discografico con un lavoro che spinge sulla stessa estetica: un jazz fortemente mischiato con le forme del funk e della fusion, a partire dai modelli classici degli anni sessanta/settanta. Sarebbe molto difficile per chiunqe, ...

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Chris Potter: The Sirens

Read "The Sirens" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 28, 2013

There is little doubt that saxophonist Chris Potter is one of the most important jazz artists of the modern era. Comfortable in a variety of jazz settings, the artist has contributed to several ECM Records-produced albums, yet The Sirens marks his leadership debut for the Germany-based label. Intense, passionate and a dazzling soloist who is a ...