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Brian Simpson: Just What You Need

Read "Just What You Need" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
June 7, 2013

The raison d'être behind Brian Simpson's Just What You Need is not as audacious as to reshape jazz as we know it, but to provide some easy listening while we're waiting. The ambitions here are a bit more modest as Simpson, who is best known as Dave Koz's bandleader, brings together an accomplished crew of studio ...

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Olivia Foschi: Perennial Dreamer

Read "Perennial Dreamer" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 7, 2013

Vocalist Olivia Foschi joins a group of young singers intent on changing the jazz vocals landscape by framing standards in anything other than standard ways. Tierney Sutton is the leader of this new direction, followed by Gretchen Parlato, Jacqui Sutton, Laurie Antonioli and Renee Yoxon. Using the standard acoustic jazz ensembles, these singers use thoughtful arrangements ...

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Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel: San Francisco

Read "San Francisco" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 7, 2013

The San Francisco Bay Area is known for many things one of which is, as a hot bed of Latin Jazz music that captured the interest of percussionist Brian Andres upon relocating there in 1999. Now a veteran of the genre and band leader of the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, Andres and the group tip their hat ...

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Black Coffee Feat. Daniele Di Bonaventura: Adagio

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 7, 2013

"Black Coffee" è il titolo di uno standard del 1948 composto da Sonny Burke e Paul Francis Webster, interpretato da svariati grandi della musica (da Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Ray Charles, a Peggy Lee, Alexia Vassiliou, K. D. Lang, Marianne Faithfull). Un brano, insomma, come evoca già il titolo, che è una vera e ...

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Fabio Accardi: Whispers

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 7, 2013

Dopo le buone impressioni destate con il precedente Arcoiris, il batterista e compositore Fabio Accardi dà alle stampe, per la sua Mordente Records, la nuova prova in studio, Whispers, convincente sia per la qualità tecnica degli interpreti sia per lo spessore espressivo. Il leader dedica questa raccolta di brani alla memoria della madre - della quale ...

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Zoidberg: Gargoyle

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 7, 2013

Trio dalle sonorità luminose e dai ritmi vari e briosi, Zoidberg mette assieme atipicamente tre strumenti come il vibrafono, la chitarra e il contrabbasso. Ai primi due, nelle mani rispettivamente di Marco Bianchi e Nicola Tacchi, è affidata l'esposizione dei temi e la responsabilità di cesellare, in solo o in dialogo tra loro, le improvvisazioni; al ...

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Manuel Gutierrez: Illa Da Lua

Read "Illa Da Lua" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 6, 2013

Manuel Gutierrez has built up a sizeable discography, but he's not previously released an album under his own name. Illa Da Lua is his debut as leader, but it's worth noting that the cover gives equal prominence to his rhythm section partners, bassist Tom Warburton and drummer Dani Dominguez. It's a fair share of the credits, ...

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Jared Gold: Intuition

Read "Intuition" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 6, 2013

Intuition is organist Jared Gold's sixth outing for the Posi-Tone label in as many years. He walks a similar path on all of his prior dates for this imprint, extending the organ group tradition(s) while fronting trios and quartets and working his way through catchy originals and diverse covers, but no two albums are really the ...

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Beat Funktion: Moon Town

Read "Moon Town" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 6, 2013

"Swedish Vintage Jazz-Funk-Disco Band." That is the auspicious description of Beat Funktion, an inventive band of Scandinavians intent on teasing the worthwhile parts of disco away from the not-so-worthwhile parts. But disco is but a small part of the alchemy arranged on Moon Town. This is more funk-jazz updated to the contemporary. Heavily back-beat laden, driven ...

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Rita Marcotulli - Michele Rabbia - Petulia Mattioli: Semetipsum 2012

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 6, 2013

Dopo le edizioni del 2010 e del 2011, che avevano visto protagonisti personaggi del calibro di Harold Budd, Eraldo Bernocchi e Nils Petter Molvær, anche nell'estate 2012 si è rinnovato l'appuntamento con Semetipsum, l'incontro tra artisti che avviene nella cantina di Michele Satta, e che dà vita a una registrazione esclusiva - prodotta dalla casa discografica ...