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WorldService Project: Fire in a Pet Shop
by John Eyles
With its debut album, Relentless (Brooke Records, 2011) WorldService Project announced itself as a band to watch. Since that release, the five-piece--led by keyboardist and principal composer Dave Morecroft--has consolidated its reputation as a cooking live band, in particular in its Match & Fuse live collaborations with like-minded bands from across Europe. Now, ...
Frank Wess: Magic 101
by Jack Bowers
The “magic" here lies not only in the radiant music created by this stellar quartet of world-class musicians but also in the fact that its leader, Frank Wess, was a youthful eighty-nine years old when this splendid album was recorded in June 2011. Wess was once a star soloist (on tenor sax and flute) with the ...
Olivia Foschi: Perennial Dreamer
by Hrayr Attarian
San Francisco native and Rome-educated Olivia Foschi is a sophisticated, urbane singer whose debut album Perennial Dreamer is a testament to her mature and worldly outlook. Surrounded by an energetic group of individualistic and trailblazing instrumentalists, Foschi presents a heady mix of original compositions, Italian ballads and jazz standards. Thanks primarily to her rich, smoky voice ...
Oscar Brown Jr.: We're Live
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Today's musicians--and anyone with an interest in things jazz and the pre-Hip-Hop/Rap African-American musical and cultural experience--might want to examine the life, times, music and impact of Oscar Brown, Jr. Brown distinguished himself brilliantly in multiple worlds--musical, literary, political, theatrical and television. And he did it all, weaving a passion for life, America's art form and ...
Kahil El'Zabar: What It Is!
by AAJ Italy Staff
I gruppi guidati dal batterista e percussionista dell'AACM Kahil El'Zabar in quattro decenni d'attività (l'Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, il Ritual Trio, il sodalizio con David Murray e formazioni coi massimi esponenti del free e post free) hanno avuto il pregio di esaltare lo spirito della Great Black Music, con particolare riguardo alle lezioni di John Coltrane e ...
Bill Frisell: Big Sur
by AAJ Italy Staff
C'è qualcosa di epico in Big Sur, ultima fatica discografica di Bill Frisell. Sarà per quel suo scorrere placido come un fiume, dall'incidere maestoso tra morbide anse e paesaggi mozzafiato. Sarà per l'aria di contemplazione e di rinnovato stupore verso le la bellezza delle cose semplici che si percepisce dalla prima all'ultima nota. Sarà perché i ...
Odwalla: Ankara Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Incisi rigorosamente dal vivo, l'uno nel novembre scorso all'Open World Jazz Festival di Ivrea, l'altro sette mesi prima ad Ankara, CD e DVD riuniti in questo box documentano in maniera quanto mai esauriente l'attività di una delle formazioni più originali (e longeve) della scena (para)jazzistica nazionale. I brani proposti attingono quasi per intero dal repertorio più ...
Doug Sertl: Beautiful Friendship
by Jack Bowers
Here's an interesting concept: an organ trio with trombone (or vice versa), led by Canadian trombonist Doug Sertl with Rick Montalbano at the Hammond B3, Peter Bernstein on guitar and another Canadian, Terry Clarke, in the drum chair. The album was recorded before the millennium and marked time on a shelf until it was released in ...
Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO: Occupy The World
by John Sharpe
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith continues to challenge preconceptions. With Occupy The World, he exposes another facet of his orchestral music; more expansive than his stunning Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform, 2012) and less earthy than Hearts Reflection (Cuneiform, 2011), it's still part of a long lineage of large group works stretching back to Budding Of A Rose ...
Chip Stephens Trio: Relevancy
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Chip Stephens' self-penned liner notes to Relevancy are both reflective and pragmatic, dissecting life, touching on the bond between parents and their children, and sussing out the meaning of relevancy in several contexts. This writing reveals a rare balance between the down-to-earth everyman's insight and the profound, so it should come as no surprise then ...
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