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Roger Beaujolais Quartet: Mind The Gap

Read "Mind The Gap" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 13, 2013

Mind The Gap might have been named for the warning dished out thousands of times a day on the London underground, but the rather wonderful music that emanates from the Roger Beaujolais Quartet is better suited as a soundtrack to late night drives along glamorous coastal highways.Vibraphonist Beaujolais has been an integral part of ...

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Jeffrey Gimble: Beyond Up High

Read "Beyond Up High" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 13, 2013

There's a lyric in the old Kenny Rogers pop tune, “The Gambler" that states: “You've got to know when to hold and know when to fold." Now vocalist Jeffrey Gimble's debut CD Beyond Up High isn't a gamble--well, perhaps it is a bit as he enters the highly uncertain world of the male jazz singer, but, ...

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Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 13, 2013

Dopo oltre 15 anni dal debutto su ECM al fianco del trombettista Nils Petter Molvaer nel suo folgorante Khmer, seguito da diverse collaborazioni di prestigio in album di Marilyn Mazur, Arild Andersen, Jon Hassell, Andy Sheppard e Food, arriva finalmente il momento dell'esordio da titolare sull'etichetta bavarese per il chitarrista norvegese Eivind Aarset, che segue i ...

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The Dorf: Live feat. FM Einheit

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 13, 2013

Sulla homepage del sito, oltre ad una splendida immagine tra pop art e realismo socialista, campeggia la scritta: “The Dorf utopian beats & krautrock/jazz/trance/noise from a 25-piece sound collective". Ossia nome, cabotaggio della band ed una possibile, alquanto nebulosa identificazione stilistica. Nient'altro. Poi veniamo a scoprire che The Dorf è una formazione a geometria variabile, dai ...

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Glockenspiel: Dupleix

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 13, 2013

Adrian Dollemore, il chitarrista dei Glockenspiel, confessa molto serenamente che il loro secondo CD Dupleix è finito abbastanza per caso tra la musica jazz, perché in realtà lui e Steve D'Enton - il batterista del duo - sono principalmente dediti alla sperimentazione elettronica. Ma la loro ricerca è stata di fatto sempre assai multidirezionale, tanto che ...

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Lotte Anker/ Rodrigo Pinhero/ Hernâni Faustino: Birthmark

Read "Birthmark" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 12, 2013

After releasing a trio of stellar recordings with pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Gerald Cleaver, the last being Floating Islands (ILK, 2009), Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker returns with a new trio. She teams up with the Portuguese players Rodrigo Pinhero (piano) and Hernâni Faustino (double bass), best known as members of RED Trio with drummer Gabriel ...

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Alex Jonsson 3: The Lost Moose

Read "The Lost Moose" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 12, 2013

Danish guitarist Alex Jønsson--currently resides in Gothenburg, Sweden-- recently graduated from the acclaimed Danish Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, but already has a defined and focused aesthetics on his first release as a leader. Jønsson, together with reed player Lars Greve and drummer Christian Windfeld, has managed to create a recording of immediate, light and ...

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Jeff Williams: The Listener

Read "The Listener" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 12, 2013

It may be a poor-man's explanation, but here it goes: bebop begat hard bop begat the freer post-bop. Free jazz emerged among them. What next? Jeff Williams' The Listener. The greater freedom of post bop compared to its predecessor is given more freedom, but not so much that the music descends into the ravenous particles of ...

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Thomas Enhco: Fireflies

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 12, 2013

Di vere e proprie “lucciole" (Fireflies) possiamo parlare a proposito di Thomas Enhco, musicista e compositore (classe 1988) che si è già ricavato un posto di rilievo nel panorama internazionale grazie a collaborazioni lussuose con Peter Erskine, Mike Stern, Billy Cobham, André Ceccarelli, Toots Thielemans, Biréli Lagrene, Johnny Griffin (elenco parziale, ma assolutamente significativo) e consolidato ...

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Kris Wanders - Mani Neumaier Quintet: Taken by Surprise

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 12, 2013

Due dei protagonisti storici della musica free in Europa si incontrano di nuovo in sala di registrazione dopo quarant'anni. Come dire: il free non si arrende mai! Kris Wanders è un sassofonista olandese attivo nella scena free della prima ora e con trascorsi nella Globe Unity Orchestra. Dopo diversi tour in Europa ha cambiato residenza spostandosi ...