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Leo Blanco: Pianoforte
by Bruce Lindsay
The title of Leo Blanco's third album, Pianoforte, makes it clear: this is just one man and one piano. But it's an exceptional instrument, played by an exceptional musician.Blanco's 2009 album Africa Latina (Ayva Musica) and 2004's self-produced Roots & Effect featured international ensembles including guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Peter Slavov, saxophonist Dave Liebman ...
Steve Dalachinsky / Joelle Leandre: The Bill Has Been Paid
by Eyal Hareuveni
The verbal-musical match between American beat poet Steve Dalachinsky, who describes himself as one that was born “right after the last big war and managed to survive lots of little wars," and French double master Joëlle Léandre is unique and untimely. Dalachinsky's poetry focuses on his musical experiences and meditations on musicians--as a spectator or collaborator, ...
Vincent Peirani: Thrill Box
by AAJ Italy Staff
33 anni, nato a Nizza ma maturato a Parigi, Vincent Peirani debutta su etichetta ACT con un lavoro ricco e accattivante, dove mette in luce versatilità nel padroneggiare differenti estetiche, brillanti doti tecniche ed elevata sensibilità. Iscrittosi a 12 anni al conservatorio della regione Alpi Marittime s'è distinto giovanissimo in varie competizioni, inclusa quella promossa dal ...
RHinozeros: Time to Spoil
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un duo chitarra-voce dal nome imponente e ingombrante - Rhinozeros - per un debutto con i fiocchi. È vero che Lisa Hasler - la voce - utilizza sintetizzatori e loops così come Florian Mobes - la chitarra - si avvale di un pizzico di elettronica. Ma l'essenza di Time to Spoil risiede nell'uso al naturale delle ...
Sleeping Bee: Heyday Maker
by AAJ Italy Staff
"(A) Sleeping Bee" è uno standard di Harold Arlen (cautore del testo niente meno che Truman Capote) con cui si sono misurati fior di jazzisti (da Bill Evans a Phil Woods, Cannonball Adderley, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, ecc.) e soprattutto voci fra le più celebrate (Barbra Streisand, nell'interpretazione forse più nota, e poi Ernestine Anderson, Mel ...
Bill Frisell: Big Sur
by Ian Patterson
Big Sur, the mountainous coastal region of California lends itself to various geographical definitions--it isn't easy to pin down definitively. So, it was an inspired idea by the Monterey Jazz Festival to put guitarist Bill Frisell in a cabin in the area and commission music, because with Frisell, musical borders are delightfully amorphous. The suite that ...
Gary Peacock / Marilyn Crispell: Azure
by John Kelman
Who leads a project is often nothing more than a matter of optics. Bassist Gary Peacock's name may come first on the cover of Azure, but there's no doubt that this is a collaborative affair, with pianist Marilyn Crispell an equal participant; the two even co-produced the recording, with label head Manfred Eicher nowhere to be ...
Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows
by Nenad Georgievski
Saxophonist Joshua Redman combines some really attractive virtues: deep jazz knowledge and formidable technique on his instrument. Combine this with a balanced but slightly assertive style that is a prime example of fluency and inventiveness, and you have a musician of such intelligence and energy, who is so adaptable, that he easily finds a way to ...
Pablo Ablanedo Octet(o): ReContraDoble
by Glenn Astarita
Executed and stylized within the heart of Tango, Pablo Ablanedo's octet features distinguished jazz trumpeter Phil Grenadier and other prominent Boston-based musicians. The Argentinean composer/pianist incisive arrangements, charted with layered horns and contrapuntal theme-building exercises are contoured by breezy choruses, buoyant jazz improv and the inherent festivities often resident within the Latin jazz element. Ablanedo's compositions ...
Sophie Agnel - John Edwards - Steve Noble: Meteo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dimenticate il classico piano trio, quello raccontato dalle enciclopedie del jazz, con la star che fa danzare le dita sugli ottantotto tasti e la sezione ritmica a sostenere il lavoro del solista, con diversi gradi di sensibilità e di interplay. Ma dimenticate anche il piano trio, sporadicamente raccontato sempre in quelle enciclopedie, dove regna sovrana l'improvvisazione ...
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