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Kalle Kalima & K-18: Out to Lynch

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 12, 2013

Poche suggestioni tipicamente “nordiche" nel nuovo lavoro di Kalle Kalima, fulgido rappresentante di una sorta di new-age finnica, chitarrista vagamente visionario ormai da tempo residente nella sempre più attiva Berlino e innamorato quanto basta del mondo del cinema. Dopo il precedente lavoro ispirato ai film di Stanley Kubrik (Some Kubricks of Blood, divertendosi a storpiare il ...

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Manu Codjia / Geraldine Laurent / Christophe Marguet: Looking For Parker

Read "Looking For Parker" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 11, 2013

It's very much a trio of equals that recorded Looking For Parker, but alto saxophonist Géraldine Laurent sometimes muscles her way out front. This is partly just the nature of the horn, and partly because she plays the same instrument as Charlie Parker, to whose music the record is dedicated. And most of all, Laurent, more ...

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Sophie Agnel/ John Edwards/ Steve Noble: Meteo

by Mark Corroto
June 11, 2013

The liner notes said it best, ..."listening is a form of improvisation." To be sure, no two listeners come away from Meteo with the same experience. This single track (38:25) live recording from the 2012 Festival Météo in Mulhouse France is a first time meeting of the French pianist Sophie Agnel and the British rhythm section ...

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John O'Gallagher: The Anton Webern Project

Read "The Anton Webern Project" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 11, 2013

Here's to avant-garde jazz. Unruly and ill-behaved, the seeds planted by saxophonists Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, and carried forward by reed multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton and melded with trumpeter Miles Davis's Post-bop, gave rise to a brand of jazz that, while not the complete chaos of free jazz, nevertheless possessed such an inventive spirit that begged ...

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Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias

Read "Functional Arrhythmias" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 11, 2013

Nella sua ultima fatica discografica Steve Coleman si presenta con una versione aggiornata degli storici Five Elements (prima apparizione nel lontano 1981) recuperando due veterani come il bassista elettrico Anthony Todd ed il batterista Sean Rickman e completando la formazione con due musicisti giovani ma già ampiamente apprezzati come il trombettista Jonathan Finlayson e il chitarrista ...

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Gregg August: Four by Six

Read "Four by Six" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 11, 2013

Fattosi apprezzare e conoscere come componente del trio di JD Allen, il contrabbassista Gregg August porta avanti dal 2005 un percorso da leader, iniziato nel 2005 con Late August e proseguito con One Peace del 2007 e l'attuale Four by Six, inciso nell'estate 2011. Se i primi due lo vedevano a capo di sestetti, il titolo ...

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Swedish Mobilia – Luca Aquino: Did You Hear Something?

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 11, 2013

Abbracciando senza remore il credo di un'improvvisazione di solo parziale matrice jazzistica, nel dicembre scorso il trio Swedish Mobilia ha realizzato questo suo secondo lavoro (dopo Knife, Fork and Spoon, uscito poco più di un anno fa sempre su Leo), illuminato - un brano sì e uno no - dalla presenza di Luca Aquino, il quale ...

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Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

Read "The Hillside Mechanisms" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 10, 2013

Three stalwarts of the London Improvisers Orchestra come together on the debut outing of the genre-mashing Vole. When playing credits number saxophone iconoclasts Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker and Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Simon Fell and pianist Alexander Hawkins, then energy and imagination can be almost guaranteed. What's fascinating is how they align improv with noise, heavy metal ...

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Gabriel Reyes: Satori

Read "Satori" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 10, 2013

Chilean guitarist Gabriel Reyes' second release as a leader, Satori brims with the visceral effervescence of soul-jazz within the framework of sophisticated and stylish orchestration. The eight Reyes originals that comprise the album are intricately penned with ample room for the individual sextet members to express their spontaneous creativity.Reyes' emotive unaccompanied guitar serenade opens ...

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Made To Break: Provoke

by Mark Corroto
June 10, 2013

The evolution of Ken Vandermark continues with his new quartet Made To Break, an electric/acoustic ensemble that bridges his musical strengths of composition, organization, and improvisation. Founded in 2011, the saxophonist drew together bassist Devin Hoff (The Resonance Ensemble), drummer Tim Daisy (Vandermark 5, The Frame Quartet, Sound In Action Trio, Bridge 61), and a new ...