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Admir Shkurtaj: Mesimér

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 24, 2013

Pianista, fisarmonicista e compositore albanese da anni trapiantato nel Salento, Shkurtaj presenta qui un interessantissimo e originale lavoro in piano solo, interamente dedicato alla rilettura di brani tradizionali, perlopiù salentini e in parte greco-balcanici. Chi possa aver storto la bocca preventivamente per un programma del genere, effettivamente sempre a rischio di banalizzazione, freni le proprie reazioni: ...

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Admir Shkurtaj Trio: Gestures and Zoom

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 24, 2013

Un trio unito dal mare Adriatico che separa le rispettive terre, Albania e Puglia, ma anche dalla frequentazione di quest'ultima da parte dei due albanesi, oltre che da una condivisa volontà di sperimentare, improvvisare, ricercare nei suoni e nelle situazioni delle forme di espressione non banali o standardizzate. Tutto questo è il trio di Admir Shkurtaj, ...

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Gianni Lenoci Hocus Pocus 4 + Taylor Ho Bynum: Empty Chair

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 24, 2013

Periodicamente Gianni Lenoci riemerge dal suo laboratorio di Monopoli con una nuova esperienza della sua formazione variabile Hocus Pocus, confermandosi uno dei più rigorosi, coerenti e personali esponenti della ricerca italiana. In Empty Chair, inciso nel marzo 2010, il quartetto con Vittorio Gallo, Pasquale Gadaleta, Giacomo Mongelli è integrato dalla tromba di Taylor Ho Bynum. La ...

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Harris Eisenstadt September Trio: The Destructive Element

Read "The Destructive Element" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 24, 2013

Nato nel 2010 il September Trio è una delle formazioni più emozionanti del jazz attuale. Ha inciso il primo disco omonimo l'anno successivo per la Clean Feed ed ora presenta questo nuovo lavoro, registrato ancora per l'etichetta portoghese il 29 e 30 settembre 2012 a Portalegre. Alla fine di giugno compirà un mini tour europeo con ...

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Keith Tippett/ Giovanni Maier: Two For Joyce

Read "Two For Joyce" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 23, 2013

Two For Joyce, that's James Joyce the title is referring to. And the 'Two' is a reference to the two musicians, pianist Keith Tippett and bassist Giovanni Maier, because Two For Joyce is one long (50 minute) improvised recorded live performance.Captured May 2012, during the “Le Nuove Rotte del Jazz" (New Routes in Jazz) ...

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Diego Barber/Hugo Cipres: 411

by Dan McClenaghan
June 23, 2013

The opening of the decidedly modern music on 411, the track entitled “Timanfaya," sounds like a spooky, welcome to a plugged-in netherworld. It begins with electric surges and wafflings, then glowing beeps punctuating electric washes before a shift into tune two, “all in," that sounds as if the late multiple reedman Eric Dolphy is hanging around ...

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Gunnar Siljabloo Nilson: Gunnar Siljabloo Nilson

Read "Gunnar Siljabloo Nilson" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
June 23, 2013

Two sounds fought for the musical soul of Gunnar “Siljabloo" Nilson: one, Artie Shaw's smoothly swinging clarinet; the other, Slim Gaillard's crazed, frenetic vocals. When the battle grew too intense and he could stand it no longer, Nilson took to drink. Born in 1925 in the desolate far north of Sweden, young Gunnar ...

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Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage: Rock and Pop Classics Revisited

Read "Lineage: Rock and Pop Classics Revisited" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 22, 2013

Saxophonist Dave Liebman was yet another musician drawn into the orbit of trumpeter Miles Davis, contributing to the always innovative master band leader's extraordinary and ground breaking--but underappreciated and even maligned at its time of release--On the Corner (Columbia Records, 1972), as well as Dark Magus (Columbia Records, 1974) and Get Up With It (Columbia Records, ...

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Anna Webber: Percussive Mechanics

Read "Percussive Mechanics" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 22, 2013

First she was a flutist, then a saxophonist, now an outstanding jazz and new music composer. Canada's Anna Webber follows up her debut, Third Floor People (Nowt Records, 2010), with Percussive Mechanics, a skirmish between contemporary composed music and jazz improvisation.As a player, she has recorded with Stephon Harris's Blackout--Urbanus (Concord, 2009)--and has also ...

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Berserk!: Berserk!

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by Glenn Astarita
June 22, 2013

What, you might ask, qualifies a record as Berserk? In this case, going Berserk! combines a string of cunning abstracts, tinted with goofy metrics, blistering progressive-rock etudes, anti-pop, heavy metal and ghostly ambient electronics effects. The masterminds are Italians, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari and bassist Lorenzo Feliciati. Perhaps the leaders overdosed on energy drinks, given the ...