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Deborah Shulman: Get Your Kicks

Read "Get Your Kicks" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 28, 2013

In the vicinity of Staunton, Illinois, a short strip of asphalt heretofore known as “Route 66" lies silently abandoned. A local wag once suggested that the ghost remnant be pulverized into bits and sold to nostalgia types, with a wealth to be had--probably by the wag. Whether or not a fortune is to be made with ...

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Jean René Mourot: EP

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 28, 2013

The début solo recording of French pianist Jean-René Mourot features a mature artist with a clear aesthetics and musical vision. The classically trained Mourot turned to popular music after his initial training and only later studied jazz and improvisation with American pianist and educator Eric Watson, a close associate of the great saxophonist Steve Lacy.

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Charles Lloyd: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2013

Gli anni sessanta sono stati quelli di un quartetto formidabile - l'album Forest Flower registrato dal vivo al Monterey Jazz Festival del 1966 fu tra i primi a raggiungere il milione di copie vendute - che avrebbe fatto conoscere in Europa un giovane pianista di nome Keith Jarrett. Gli anni settanta lo vedono dapprima abbandonare la ...

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Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

Read "Concert in Athens" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2013

Il concerto ateniese del Novembre 2010 che costituisce il nuovo CD della compositrice e pianista greca Eleni Karaindrou è caratterizzato dalla riunione con il sassofonista Jan Garbarek, che aveva prestato il timbro del suo strumento a due delle prime colonne sonore realizzate dalla Karaindrou per il regista Theo Angelopoulos, “Il volo" e “Paesaggio nella nebbia" (rispettivamente ...

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Narada Burton Greene: Live at Kerrytown House

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2013

Nato a Chicago nel 1937, Burton Greene fu al fianco dei più autorevoli esponenti dell'avanguardia nera degli anni Sessanta: Albert Ayler, Rashied Ali, Alan Silva, Roland Kirk, Marion Brown, Henry Grimes... Poi per motivi economici dovette mettere in secondo piano alla sua attività musicale. Questo CD lo coglie dal vivo in un concerto tenuto nell'ottobre 2010 ...

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Dienne Manouche: Gipsy Bop

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2013

Quello del chitarrista Dario Napoli è un progetto interamente versato al gipsy-jazz, ispirato dall'immortale figura di Django Reinhardt e infarcito di innesti boppistici, che rimandano al mondo descritto nelle note di Charlie Parker e dintorni, con un velo di malinconia bluesy. Un quadro attraente composto dal trio Dienne Manouche, anche se privo di reali punti di ...

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Reijseger / Harmen Fraanje / Mola Sylla: Down Deep

Read "Down Deep" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 27, 2013

As one of its first signings, Ernst Reijseger has amassed a sizable discography with Winter & Winter. Werner Herzog--with whom Reijseger has also shared a lengthy relationship, scoring seven of the German film director's films since 2000's Ajax: Hark the Herald Angels Sing--has aptly described the Dutch cellist as capable of anything, furthermore suggesting that he ...

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Mercedes Nicole: Beautiful Alignment

Read "Beautiful Alignment" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 27, 2013

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Nina Simone all make appearances in the biography of Seattle-based singer Mercedes Nicole. She has been a creative face in jazz since the turn of the century, writing, producing and performing tributes to Simone, Etta James, and Dinah Washington. With Beautiful Alignment, Nicole debuts on disc with a collection ...

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Joshua Abrams Quartet: Unknown Known

Read "Unknown Known" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 27, 2013

"There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns--there are things we do not know we don't know." Strangely, Donald Rumsfeld didn't mention the unknown known: the things we ...

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Stephan Mathieu: The Falling Rocket

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 27, 2013

Nel lavoro di Stephan Mathieu - musicista e sperimentatore elettroacustico tedesco che in questi anni si è segnalato come uno dei più sensibili esploratori sonori e di cui vi abbiamo segnalato non troppo tempo fa lo splendido Un Coeur Simple - ha grande importanza la strumentazione. Specialista delle fonti sonore più disparate e obsolete, Mathieu sceglie ...