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Sandor Szabo / Alf Wilhelm Lundberg / Balazs Major: Hidden Dimension

Read "Hidden Dimension" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 10, 2013

Some musical meetings do not need much preparation, even tough the musicians are located thousands of kilometers apart, surrounded by different sonic landscapes and musical traditions. The meeting itself can spark and enlighten new roads of expressions. That is what happened when Norwegian guitar artist Alf Wilhelm Lundberg, leader of the chamber jazz outfit Norchestra and ...

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Eskelin - Alcorn - Formanek: Mirage

Read "Mirage" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 10, 2013

The Rolling Stones, Yes, and other prominent bands have incorporated the pedal steel guitar into the rock vernacular. Here, pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn extends this instrument beyond customary Americana or Country & Western formats and becomes the link between modern jazz champions, tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and bassist Michael Formanek. She builds a bridge for ...

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Szilárd Mezei: Singing Elephant

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 10, 2013

Serbo di nazionalità ma etnicamente ungherese, Szilárd Mezei è uno dei musicisti più originali emersi in Europa nell'ultimo decennio. Virtuoso di viola e compositore, Mezei ha elaborato una pregnante sintesi tra le forme dell'avanguardia afroamericana (dal free storico a Braxton), il folklore della Vojvodina e la musica classica (in particolare la lezione di Witold Lutoslawski e ...

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Nostalgia 77 and The Monster: The Taxidermist

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 10, 2013

Il recente episodio dell'avventura Nostalgia 77 vira verso un jazz strumentale elegante, di schietta semplicità e ammiccante comunicazione. Gli interessi del “regista" Benedic Lamdin sono davvero molteplici e, dopo aver accarezzato mainstream e avanguardia, coinvolgendo nomi come Keith e Julie Tippett, The Taxidermist affronta atmosfere varie e raffinate, colpendo nel segno soprattutto con l'iniziale brano che ...

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Vibes and Bass: Frantelunia

Read "Frantelunia" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 9, 2013

Other than vibraphonist Gary Burton's periodic duo collaborations with pianist Chick Corea, bassist Steve Swallow, and guitarist Ralph Towner, it's difficult to think of many examples of the vibraphones in a duo setting. Vibraphonist Walt Dickerson and pianist Sun Ra's overlooked album, Visions (Steeple Chase Records, 1978), is one exception, but they aren't too thick on ...

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Harris Eisenstadt September Trio: The Destructive Element

Read "The Destructive Element" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 9, 2013

In a jazz setting, the traditional role for a bassist is to keep time, and in effect be the glue that holds a composition--and essentially the jazz unit--together. Maybe that is the reason is why drummer Harris Eisenstadt chose to construct his September Trio sans bassist. Aptly named, The Destructive Element follows the September Trio of ...

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Steffen Schorn and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble: Tiefentraume

Read "Tiefentraume" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 9, 2013

German multiple reed man Steffen Schorn plays a wide array of wind instruments: tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones; Bb, bass, contra-alto and contrabass clarinets, along with the piccolo, flute, alto and bass flutes. So it makes sense for an artist with that many wind instruments in his quiver to collaborate with a wind ensemble, ...

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Aaron Lebos Reality: Aaron Lebos Reality

Read "Aaron Lebos Reality" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 9, 2013

Since coming together as a group in 2012, Aaron Lebos Reality has forged a musical permanence in Miami's culturally diversified music scene, performing a wide range of jazz, funk, rock, R&B, Latin and world styles of music. Though guitarist Lebos, leader of the band, has several albums to his credit, the self-titled Aaron Lebos Reality is ...

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Ketil Bjørnstad: La Notte

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 9, 2013

Il progetto presentato al Festival di Molde 2010 dal pianista norvegese Ketil Bjørnstad, conosciuto all'epoca col nome “Antonioni Project," giunge finalmente alla pubblicazione su CD grazie alla ECM. L'evento live era stato accolto entusiasticamente da quanti avevano avuto la fortuna di assistervi: non capita spesso di vedre riuniti sullo stesso palco simili nomi, anche se con ...

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Paolo Alderighi: Piano Solo

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 9, 2013

Paolo Alderighi approda alla quarta prova in piano solo, in una carriera che l'ha visto finora preferire questa formula, grazie alla quale mette in evidenza una preparazione di livello assoluto e una notevole cultura musicale. I tredici brani in scaletta incarnano il suo amore per gli standard e, in genere, per la musica del Novecento jazzistico. ...