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Billy Bang: Da Bang!

Read "Da Bang!" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 24, 2013

On April 10, 2011, the music world lost one of the foremost innovators of the violin, Billy Bang. In addition to boldly pushing the instrument's boundaries, he is one of the rare jazz players who left an indelible mark on it. The Finnish TUM label posthumously released Bang's swan song, recorded a mere two months before ...

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Stefano Costanzo: Tricatiempo

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 24, 2013

In un gioco un po' fine a se stesso ma comunque divertente potremmo affrontare Tricatiempo alla scoperta di richiami più o meno espliciti a mondi sonori anche molto distanti tra di loro, a immagini iconiche che quell'accordo, quella progressione, quella macchia timbrica portano alla superficie della nostra memoria. Ma finito il gioco la sensazione é che ...

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Kimming - Studer - Zimmerlin: Erzählend Nah

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 24, 2013

Che tra la musica contemporanea accademica e certo nuovo jazz ci siano delle analogie non è una scoperta di oggi. Con buona pace di chi da tempo si sbraccia per scongiurare simili comparazioni questo disco ne è una testimonianza valida a partire dallo sviluppo di paesaggi informali dagli ampi orizzonti. Effettivamente le architetture intessute sul connubio ...

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Kairos 4tet: Everything We Hold

Read "Everything We Hold" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 23, 2013

With the release of Statement Of Intent (Edition Records, 2011) everything seemed to be coming together for Kairos 4tet. That abum, the band's second, was critically acclaimed; the band won the 2011 MOBO Award for Best Jazz Act. Then a trapped nerve in bandleader Adam Waldmann's elbow necessitated surgery shortly after the MOBO success and the ...

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Mark Dresser Quintet: Nourishments

Read "Nourishments" reviewed by Robert Bush

by Robert Bush
July 23, 2013

Mark Dresser has risen to the very upper echelon of the double-bass world in the most impressive fashion: by choosing the road less traveled. His path of virtuosity has eschewed the conventional metrics of velocity over changes in favor of the development of a highly personal improvising language that includes timbre gradients, two-handed tapping, use of ...

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Photon Band: Pure Photonic Matter Volume 1

Read "Pure Photonic Matter Volume 1" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 23, 2013

The Philadelphia-based Photon Band conspicuously unites Indie rock with an amalgamation of psychedelics and spacey overtures amid occasional nods to the British punk rock movement and hard-driving proto-punk ensembles such as MC5. This limited edition vinyl release was largely created by the band's leader, guitarist/bassist/vocalist Art di Furia. Some of the rewarding elements can be attributed ...

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Brandon Bernstein Trio: But Beautiful

Read "But Beautiful" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 23, 2013

Sensitive, serious and sincere are the adjectives that bass veteran Putter Smith uses to describe guitarist Brandon Bernstein, and those simple words prove to be descriptive bull's eyes. Bernstein started on guitar at fourteen, scored a scholarship from the Berklee School of Music at eighteen, and proceeded to wrack up a series of degrees--culminating in a ...

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Daniele Di Bonaventura: Nadir

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 23, 2013

Un disco come questo era nell'aria da tempo, da quando Daniele Di Bonaventura ha iniziato a far trapelare senza più ritrosie la sua altra pelle, accanto a quella del bandoneonista, ovvero quella di pianista (che poi, cronologicamente parlando, arriva pure prima). E appare quindi indovinato che Nadir - complice Paolo Fresu - sia venuto fuori come ...

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Tingvall Trio: In Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 23, 2013

In principio fu l'Esbjörn Svenson Trio. Correva l'anno 1993, quando venne pubblicato il loro primo album When Everyone Has Gone. Nel giro di pochi anni divennero famosi in tutto il mondo. I meno lungimiranti (e purtroppo mi devo includere tra questi) pensarono che quel mix di jazz di facile accessibilità, rock e classica, che aveva dato ...

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Luca Rampinini: Connections

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 23, 2013

Connections è l'album d'esordio di Luca Rampinini, sassofonista che ha realizzato questo progetto con il contributo di una nutrita serie di musicisti ospiti. La scaletta presenta brani originali e alcune riletture, come lo standard conclusivo “My Favourite Things," in cui il leader sceglie di elaborare la melodia rimanendo fedele ai tratti distintivi di quella originale; mentre ...