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Bill Frisell: Big Sur

Read "Big Sur" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 21, 2013

Heralded guitar maestro Bill Frisell combines his 858 Quartet and Beautiful Dreamers units to impart another watermark on his Americana legacy, featuring an organic acoustic-electronic sketch of this picturesque area of California coastline. The album comprises nineteen-tracks, spanning Civil War-era country-chamber, undulating ostinatos, layered strings, parts, and even snippets of surf music on “The Big One." ...

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Ergo: If Not Inertia

Read "If Not Inertia" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 21, 2013

Il terzo disco del gruppo Ergo si muove sul piano di una musica intensa e pensata secondo linee geometriche, incentrate su una grande attenzione al suono. Si capisce sin dal pezzo di apertura, che cresce lungo un asse sommatorio dominato da una sola nota ossessiva, su cui si aggiunge uno strumento alla volta, o quando i ...

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Gary Peacock – Marilyn Crispell: Azure

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 20, 2013

Inevitabilmente prosciugato dell'apporto di Paul Motian, col quale la pianista di Filadelfia e il bassista dell'Idaho ci avevano accolto a inizio decennio col bellissimo, per più versi persino sorprendente Amaryllis, il trio di allora si rigenera oggi in questo prezioso, raffinatissimo album in duo, inciso a New York nel febbraio di due anni fa. Dividendosi con ...

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Alan Ferber: March Sublime

Read "March Sublime" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 20, 2013

When you open a nice bottle of red wine, to get the best results, it is better to set the bottle aside for some time. You let the wine, as they say, “breathe," allowing oxygen to bring out the hidden flavors. Same for a big band recording like Alan Ferber's March Sublime. Instead of setting the ...

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TJI Ellington Big Band: Things to Come

Read "Things to Come" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 20, 2013

To accentuate the positive, the ten-year-old Ellington Big Band, flagship ensemble of the Tucson (AZ) Jazz Institute, established its credentials by earning first-place honors twice (2010, 2012) in Jazz at Lincoln Center's annual Essentially Ellington competition, and has been named best Performing Arts High School Jazz Band by DownBeat magazine. On the heels of these honors, ...

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Kaze: Tornado

Read "Tornado" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 20, 2013

Kaze, one of pianist Satoko Fujii's many groups, offers up its sophomore effort with Tornado. A quartet lineup of piano, two trumpets and drums, it's sound is as idiosyncratically original and no-hold-barred as it comes. The trumpets often sound like trumpets--brassy one minute then whispery the next. The two trumpets spit hard, rapid-fire notes and long ...

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Christian Lillingers Grund: Second Reason

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 20, 2013

Quattro anni fa l'etichetta Clean Feed pubblicava First Reason, lavoro d'esordio del batterista Christian Lillinger. Il musicista e compositore berlinese presentava, in quell'occasione, un progetto di commistione tra improvvisazione libera e composizione denominato Grund, che ora ritorna, sempre su etichetta Clean Feed, con un disco che, almeno nel titolo, Second Reason, sceglie di mantenere una certa ...

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Iiro Rantala - Michael Wollny - Leszek Mozdzer: Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic 1

Read "Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic 1" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 20, 2013

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic 1 documenta il concerto dell'11 dicembre 2012 alla Berlin Philharmonic di tre protagonisti del pianoforte nordeuropeo: il tedesco Michael Wollny, il finlandese Iiro Rantala e il polacco Leszek Mozdzer. Incidono tutti per l'ACT, l'etichetta tedesca che dalla morte di Svensson cerca nuovi protagonisti per un piano jazz di natura prettamente europea. La ...

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Barbez: Bella Ciao

Read "Bella Ciao" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 20, 2013

Bella Ciao, the fifth album from Brooklyn art-rock band Barbez, is a homage to both ancient Roman Jewish melodies and the Italian Resistance during the Second World War. Barbez's leader, Dan Kaufman--who recorded one of the most remarkable albums in the history of the Tzadik label, Force of Light (Tzadik, 2007), a profound musical realization of ...

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Ben Wendel - Dan Tepfer: Small Constructions

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 19, 2013

L'occasione. Alcuni giorni passati presso l'artist-space Yamaha di Manhattan con alcuni preziosi strumenti a stretta portata di mano. La materia prima. Due classici di Monk, uno standard tra i più noti, Lennie Tristano, Handel, un pizzico di Messiaen e qualche originale. I protagonisti. Dan Tepfer, giovane, pluripremiato pianista dalla mente aperta e dalle collaborazioni eccellenti (Konitz ...