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Massimo De Mattia: Trilemma

Read "Trilemma" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Nuovo lavoro per il flautista di Pordenone (incisione del 2012), in trio con due fedelissimi quali Cesselli e Turchet, e nuovo centro. Persino prevedibile, verrebbe da dire (ovviamente nel senso migliore del termine), perché da Massimo De Mattia, ormai da molti anni figura nodale sulla mappa del jazz nostrano (magari non tutti se ne sono accorti, ...

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Uri Caine - Han Bennink: Sonic Boom

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Attenti a quei due! Perché se parliamo di personaggi come Han Bennink e Uri Caine ci si può aspettare di tutto e il contrario di tutto. Se poi l'incontro ha come scenario la Bimhuis di Amsterdam, luogo sacro dell'improvvisazione europea, può accadere qualcosa di davvero speciale. Un botto sonoro, insomma. Ed è quello che avviene in ...

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Nicolas Masson / Roberto Pianca / Emanuele Maniscalco: Third Reel

Read "Third Reel" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Few would argue that, while the standard touchstones of contemporary jazz--names like saxophonist John Coltrane, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Charles Mingus, and trumpeter Miles Davis--remain amongst the many cited when contemporary artists are asked for their influences, younger influences have also emerged in the new millennium, names like saxophonist Chris Potter, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and pianist ...

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Gilad Hekselman: This Just In

Read "This Just In" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

If Gilad Hekselman's previous releases caused a few ripples then his fourth album, This Just In should make a splash. The Israeli-born, New York-based guitarist has garnered attention as a rising fret-board wizard from the wellspring of notable peers such as Lage Lund and Miles Okazaki; fresh voices with plenty of technique but of equal importance ...

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Eugenie Jones: Black Lace Blue Tears

Read "Black Lace Blue Tears" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Seattle-based vocalist/composer/arranger Eugenie Jones didn't start out as such. A business and marketing major in college, Jones graduated and went on to be a business owner, consultant and all-around marketing roustabout. But life is never so simple and after her mother's death, Jones decided that it was time to pursue music as a vocation. On her ...

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Debora Petrina: Petrina

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Profondi occhi chiari, una massa di capelli rossi, Debora Petrina è tornata con un nuovo lavoro che porta semplicemente il suo cognome, Petrina. Per dire tutto, in poche parole. Che fosse brava, già lo sapevamo: nel 2009, l'album autuprodotto In Doma aveva dato prova di come la sintesi di rock e jazz (fuori dagli schemi) sia ...

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Claudio Ottaviano: Notturno

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Contrabbassista in rapida ascesa, molto presente sulla scena jazzistica milanese, Claudio Ottaviano incide col suo pregevole trio comprendente Tino Tracanna ai sassofoni e Michele Franzini al pianoforte. Con compagni di tale levatura è scontato attendersi un prodotto di qualità ma l'album sorprende comunque per raffinatezza, cantabilità e intensità dei percorsi. Il disco di Ottaviano è sostanzialmente ...

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Living Coltrane: Out of This World

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Out of This World è disco solido, sobrio e raffinato. I quattro esperti musicisti, nell'affrontare il repertorio di Coltrane, evitano le lunghe e infuocate cavalcate tipiche del sassofonista di Hamlet (la media dei brani è sui cinque/sei minuti) per privilegiare un'interpretazione intima, spirituale. Le composizioni conservano la struttura originaria, che viene circuita con discrezione per arrivare ...

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Phisqa: Phisqa

Read "Phisqa" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Jazz has come far in Ireland in the last decade or two, leaving behind the trad-jazz on a Sunday image for an altogether more contemporary scene. In part, this is due to the increasingly cosmopolitan face of the country's cities, and in no small measure to the influence of Dublin's Newpark Music Centre, the only educational ...

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Natalie Cressman & Secret Garden: Unfolding

Read "Unfolding" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

Imagine what it would be like to grow up in a household in which both parents are exceptional jazz musicians, a childhood completely immersed in live music and performance. Natalie Cressman, daughter of vocalist Sandy Cressman and trombonist Jeff Cressman, has had just such an upbringing, and her debut album Unfolding indicates that she is making ...


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