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Matteo Marongiu: Open Letter to Mingus
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il non ancora trentenne bassista e compositore cagliaritano Matteo Marongiu non sfugge alla tentazione (ovviamente del tutto legittima) di rivolgere un tributo all'indiscusso primus inter pares della categoria, Charlie Mingus. E colpisce, in positivo, che il lavoro non risulti particolarmente debitore nei confronti dell'estetica dell'omaggiato, come fin troppo spesso accade invece in casi del genere. Si ...
S.O.S./: Looking for the Next One
by Glenn Astarita
Complete with an in-depth 16-page booklet--including photos and a storyboard of the core trio's existence, S.O.S features three protagonists of the '70s British progressive- jazz movement and beyond. The band formed in 1973 and lasted through 1976 with one self- titled album for the Ogun record label in 1975. Looking for the Next One, is a ...
Tony Adamo: Miles of Blu
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Long before rappers and scratchers, resurrected Mummies, and Lord Buckley's hipsters and flipsters, the ancient Greeks had a name for “cats" like Tony Adamo--rhapsode. The homonym notwithstanding, a rhapsode was a speak-singer--who plucked his lyre and “spung" (spoke-sung) expressive tales of towering, powerful Gods and the tribulations of mortals below them. Pan pipes and percussion types ...
Michael Gallant Trio: Completely
by Dan Bilawsky
For many an ivory-tickler, the piano trio is the perfect format for supper club-appropriate sashays through standards, but Michael Gallant doesn't think that way; he'd rather put a little power, pizzazz and punch into the piano trio, using it as a springboard to launch his oft-excitable tunes. Gallant is a talented multi-tasker who ...
Cristiano Arcelli: Brooks
by AAJ Italy Staff
All'origine vi è la figura ambigua, carica di sensualità e per certi versi misteriosa di Louise Brooks, icona del cinema muto, scomparsa alla soglia degli ottant'anni, sola e dimenticata nonostante una tardiva riabilitazione artistica. Dai pensieri e dalle suggestioni evocate da una personalità così carismatica prende spunto la musica di Brooks, quasi una sequenza organizzata di ...
André Mehmari: Veredas
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trentacinquenne pianista, multistrumentista e compositore André Mehmari, è da tempo considerato uno dei maggiori musicisti brasiliani della nuova leva ed è già noto anche in Italia per il suo disco in duo con Gabriele Mirabassi, Miramari, pubblicato da Egea nel 2010. In questo nuovo CD della medesima etichetta è possibile apprezzare le sue molte qualità, ...
Marc Ducret: Tower vol. 3
by Glenn Astarita
Each one of French guitarist Marc Ducret's Tower series albums has featured different lineups and instrumentation. With Tower vol. 3, he employs a three-man trombone attack with percussion and piano performers; as stated in the album liners, the band “plays comments on the music already played." Therefore, the musicians redevelop and dissect previous works appearing on ...
Nicky Schrire: Space And Time
by Dan Bilawsky
The art of singing goes well beyond the act of singing. To simply sing, one need only open the mouth and let the music come forth, but that's the act. The art involves pitch perfect delivery, clear and crisp diction, control, creativity, flexibility, and the ability to completely inhabit, own, and sell a song; in short, ...
Karolina Strassmayer and Drori Mondlak: Small Moments
by Hrayr Attarian
Altoist Karolina Strassmayer and drummer Drori Mondlak's second release as co-leaders Small Moments is a collection of lean and gripping original compositions that the superlative quartet embellishes with their sophisticated and inventive spontaneity.One of the unifying themes of this engaging album is a melodic and contemplative narrative sense. The intimately nocturnesque “Seven Minutes in ...
Rendezvous: Another Round Please
by Jeff Winbush
All instrumental music is not jazz and some might argue electronica isn't music at all as much as it is the ultimate triumph of machine over man. To be certain, much of electronica, trance, house and trip-hop is little more than synthesized beeps, bleeps and burps over a drum track as it whizzes by your ears ...
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