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Vein feat. Dave Liebman: Lemuria Live

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2013

Registrato live in due giorni successivi del settembre 2011, a Parigi e Colonia, questo CD vede di scena Vein, trio di musicisti di Basilea, che ospita Dave Liebman, vero monumento del sax capace di esibirsi sempre ai massimi livelli d'espressività e perciò di trasformare ogni performance in un piccolo capolavoro, specie dal vivo. E infatti anche ...

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Quest: Circular Dreaming

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2013

Tra i tanti (troppi?) tributi, omaggi e onori al genio di Miles Davis, questo firmato dai Quest del sassofonista Dave Liebman, è certamente uno dei più riusciti nel cogliere lo spirito visionario e creativo di un genio assoluto e tradurlo secondo canoni che ne esaltano virtù e prospettive. Come ricorda nelle note di copertina il pianista ...

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John Stevens – Paul Rutherford – Evan Parker – Barry Guy: One Four and Two Twos

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2013

Volete (re)immergervi nel clima dell'improvvisazione radicale europea dura e pura? Questo è il disco che fa per voi. Vi confluisce materiale edito (su View e Konnex) e non, con rimandi storici (la fine degli anni Settanta) e sviluppi più recenti (i primi Novanta). Il grosso del CD (brani da 1 a 5) recupera un'incisione londinese (in ...

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Dave Liebman - Lewis Porter: Surreality

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2013

Pur richiamando di volta in volta lo spirito e alcuni particolari inconfondibili delle varie personalità a cui tributa degli omaggi, questo disco spicca per una propria unicità e riconoscibilità nel suono e nella personalità musicale che esprime. Sarà forse per la particolarità di questa mescolanza agrodolce tra la chitarra acide e sporca di Ribot con il ...

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Jutta Hipp: Lost Tapes: The German Recordings 1952-1955

Read "Lost Tapes: The German Recordings 1952-1955" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 2, 2013

German-born pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003) was enticed to travel to New York in 1955 by jazz writer/historian Leonard Feather. She was signed by Alfred Lion to Blue Note Records where she very quickly--within an eight month period--recorded three albums for the label: At the Hickory House, Vol. 1 (1955); At the Hickory House, Vol. 2, and ...

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Raquel Bitton: Rhythm of the Heart

Read "Rhythm of the Heart" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 2, 2013

There are two powerful aural cues on Raquel Bitton's Rhythm of the Heart. The first is Edith Piaf. I don't suspect that any song sung in French does not cue a thought of Piaf. The second cue is that of the Latinesque music often featured on the Lawrence Welk Show, the only place to hear this ...

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Satoko Fujii ma-do: Time Stands Still

Read "Time Stands Still" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 2, 2013

When asked why she has lead or co-lead so many different projects (23 at last count), pianist Satoko Fujii replied “It's like food. I don't like just Japanese food, but also Italian food, French food and so on, and I would soon get tired if I just ate Japanese food." If her ma-do quartet were to ...

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Julien Colarossi: Note to Self

Read "Note to Self" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
June 1, 2013

Since moving to Ireland in 2007, Italian guitarist Julien Colarossi has established himself as one of the busiest hands for hire on the Dublin jazz/contemporary music scene. He can be found in the band of singers Riona Sally Hartman and Edel Meade, and in the quintet Phisqa, whose eponymous debut fuses Peruvian rhythms--courtesy of drummer Cote ...

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Moss Project: What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?

Read "What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 1, 2013

As Bo Diddley so wisely stated, “You can't judge a book by looking at the cover." Moss Project's What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes? may look like a book, and a very beautiful one at that. It may feel like a book--it may even smell like a book. But it's a CD. Actually, ...

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Carline Ray: Vocal Sides

Read "Vocal Sides" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 1, 2013

Vocalist Carline Ray has a musical reach that extends to the beginning of jazz. Her father played in James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra in the early years of the 20th Century. Juilliard-trained (as her father was) Ray sang and played guitar and bass in a variety of formats in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Erskine ...