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Christy Doran: Mesmerized

Read "Mesmerized" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
June 21, 2013

Guitarist Christy Doran's New Bag has negotiated its share of rough waters during its sixteen-year journey. While the ship was severely rocked by the death of drummer Fabian Kuratli in 2008 and the departure of vocalist Bruno Amstad after 12 years in 2011, Doran has soldiered on. His compositions ultimately define New Bag's personality, rather than ...

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The Dixie Ticklers: Standing Pat

Read "Standing Pat" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 21, 2013

The Dixie Ticklers play New Orleans jazz. The band's press release puts it even more emphatically: debut album Standing Pat is “an in depth study of New Orleans jazz." If that phrase sends out alarm bells and anxieties about overly-reverential treatments of tired old trad standards, fear not. Because Standing Pat isn't really an in depth ...

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Dewa Budjana: Dawai In Paradise

Read "Dawai In Paradise" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 21, 2013

Eminent guitarist Dewa Budjana's fifth solo album offers a medley of compelling stylistic components steeped in Indo-fusion, jazz fusion, progressive rock and indigenous components of his Indonesian roots. The album also includes older material, spanning 2002 through 2005, featuring US jazz heroes including drummer Peter Erskine, the late bassist Dave Carpenter, and many others who generate ...

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Angela Davis: The Art of The Melody

Read "The Art of The Melody" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 20, 2013

Saxophonist and All About Jazz contributor Angela Davis has made it official, releasing her debut recording, The Art of The Melody. Davis joins a growing legion of female reeds players that includes Sharel Cassity, Alisha Pattillo, Virginia Mayhew, Claire Daly, and Mercedes Figueras, who are flexing their respective chops in the ravenous particles of digital music.

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Bob James & David Sanborn: Quartette Humaine

Read "Quartette Humaine" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 20, 2013

It's much easier to take Quartette Humaine at face value as an organic-and-acoustic outing between two high profile figures known for blurring the pop-jazz line than it is to take it under its marketed premise: a tribute to the famed partnership between pianist Dave Brubeck and saxophonist Paul Desmond. While pianist Bob James and saxophonist David ...

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Yang Jing & Christy Doran: No. 9

by Ian Patterson
June 20, 2013

Classically trained pipa virtuoso Yang Jing and Irish free-jazz/jazz-rock electric guitarist Christy Doran may seem unlikely collaborators, but closer inspection shows some common musical ground. Jing's background is Chinese classical but her spirit of adventure has drawn her to more experimental settings in duos with veteran percussionists Pierre Favre and long-term Anthony Braxton collaborator Gerry Hemingway, ...

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Matt Holman Diversion Ensemble: When Flooded

Read "When Flooded" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 20, 2013

Ecco un altro ottimo disco d'esordio. Per realizzare questo When Flooded, il compositore e trombettista Matt Holman ha messo insieme una band non tra le più convenzionali. Il gruppo comprende, oltre alla tromba di Holman, i clarinetti di Mike McGinnis, la chitarra elettrica di Nate Radley, il violoncello di Christopher Hoffman e l'ampio set di percussioni ...

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Rosario Giuliani: Images

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 20, 2013

Registrato a New York nell'aprile del 2012, Images mette in mostra le qualità compositive ed esecutive di Rosario Giuliani, che in questi dieci brani originali (solo uno dei quali, “Light at Night," è firmato da Roberto Tarenzi) trova - in compagnia di musicisti di livello assoluto - degli ideali punti di connessione espressiva. Il leader, come ...

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Kui Dong - Larry Polansky - Christian Wolff: Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 20, 2013

Un'improvvisazione totale che definiremmo “orizzontale," di temperatura generalmente assorta, cameristica, a tratti persino estenuata, è quanto ci offre questo CD del trio cino-americano (ma Wolff è di famiglia tedesca ed è nato in Francia, a Nizza). Tutto ciò fin quasi all'eccesso, col risultato di impantanarsi in periodiche risacche di stanchezza in chi ascolta, che pure non ...

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Julia Hulsmann Quartet: In Full View

Read "In Full View" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 19, 2013

There's no denying the benefit of stable longevity, but neither is there anything wrong with change. Following three ACT recordings that featured her trio--together since Scattering Poems (ACT, 2003)--supporting a series of vocalists, Julia Hülsmann moved to ECM, where the pianist was afforded greater freedom to more fully explore her trio's potential on 2008's The End ...