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Sara Serpa – Ran Blake: Aurora
by AAJ Italy Staff
Secondo album (dopo Camera Obscura, datato 2010) del duo composto dalla trentaquattrenne cantante di Lisbona e dal settantottenne pianista del Massachusetts, Aurora raccoglie i riflessi di una doppia seduta (dal vivo e in studio) tenutasi nella capitale portoghese nel maggio 2012. Il clima che lo contraddistingue è lieve, ora più colloquiale, ora più scarno, quasi scabro, ...
Günter Baby Sommer - Savina Yannatou - Floros Floridis - Evgenios Voulgaris - Spilios Kastanis: Songs for Kommeno
by AAJ Italy Staff
Günter “Baby" Sommer rimase impietrito alla scoperta della strage avvenuta nel villaggio greco di Kommeno, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Invitato nel 2008 a un festival di percussioni nel villaggio dell'Epiro, aveva letto durante la notte un libro che ricostruiva quei momenti atroci, in cui i militari della Wehrmacht avevano trucidato 317 persone senza pietà: donne, ...
Cecile McLorin Salvant: WomanChild
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dall'emergere di Cassandra Wilson sono passati quasi trent'anni ma nell'affollato palcoscenico delle giovani cantanti nessuna le ha insidiato lo scettro. Legate alla tradizione afroamericana ne sono apparse brave e/o seducenti (da Roberta Gambarini a Diana Krall, da Melody Gardot a Madeleyne Peiroux), altre più rigorose e snobbate dai media (René Marie, Karrin Allyson, Maria Marquez, Maria ...
Compassionate Dictatorship: Entertaining Tyrants
by Bruce Lindsay
Six years after its debut album, Coup D'Etat (FMR Records, 2007), and three years after its follow-up, Cash Cows (FMR Records, 2010), Compassionate Dictatorship returns with Entertaining Tyrants. Album number three finds the London-based quartet moving away from the influence of progressive rock, which shaped some of Cash Cows, and into a sound that is much ...
The Caravan: The Caravan
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The Caravan, the self-titled second album from a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based hybrid hip hop trio, has attracted attention for the track “What Up Steve?." It's a new kind of political protest record for Canada, a reaction to the new kind of conservative politics practiced by the Stephen Harper administration. But “What Up Steve?," whatever its effectiveness, ...
Jonathan Finlayson: Moment and the Message
by Mark Corroto
The final scene from the 1998 cult classic movie, The Big Lebowski, has the cowboy narrator telling the audience: “Then, I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself, down through the generations, westward the wagons, across the sands a ...
Petr Cancura: Down Home
by Mark Corroto
Once jazz migrated from New Orleans and the Deep South to Chicago and New York, a favorite put-down for those making music that wasn't urban, cool or modern was to call the musicians “country." It was as if all things of jazz consequence outside of urban centers was required to be imported from said cities.
Nicola Milan: Forbidden Moments
by C. Michael Bailey
It should be no wonder that Australia produces musicians whose art reflects a broad blend of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Perth native Nicola Milan refers to the genre to which her brand of music belongs, Australasian jazz, and her own pedigree as Welsh/Anglo-Indian. That is every bit as exotic and humidly appealing as the self-description ...
Emil Strandberg / Sten Sandell / Patric Thorman: It Is Night And I Am Lost
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Swedish improvising trio of trumpeter Emil Strandberg, pianist Sten Sandell and bassist Patric Thorman has played together since 2006. Its first recording, Stockholm Sweden Polyphony (Found You Recording, 2009), signaled the many directions that these experienced and resourceful improvisers were beginning to explore. The trio kept performing while Strandberg and Thorman also collaborated with American ...
Federico Ughi Quartet: Federico Ughi Quartet
by Florence Wetzel
The Federico Ughi Quartet is part of the lineage that continues to emerge from saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Ughi's work embodies a range of disparate influences, including classical music and Italian folk tunes, but in the quartet's eponymous release Ughi pays homage to Coleman's spiritual, philosophical, and musical influence. The quartet even mirrors Coleman's archetypal two-horn-bass-drums lineup, ...
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