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Wheelhouse: Boss Of The Plains

Read "Boss Of The Plains" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Listening to the improvising trio Wheelhouse, one might get the distinct sensation of being inside of a dream.One of two inaugural releases for saxophonist Dave Rempis' Aerophonic Records label, Boss Of The Plains, documents the evolution of Rempis, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, and bassist Nate McBride}}'s collaborative trio. This band, which was formed in 2005 ...

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Dice Factory: Dice Factory

Read "Dice Factory" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Uno degli aspetti più interessanti del moderno jazz britannico è sicuramente quella sorta di “angolarità" che non ha eguali al mondo e che è forse geneticamente una sorta di marchio di fabbrica. Uno che la porta impressa nell'anima è ad esempio Django Bates al quale questo nuovo quartetto di stanza a Londra deve sicuramente molto. Dice ...

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Pat Metheny: Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20

Read "Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La strana coppia! Negli anni è diventato sempre più difficile, se non impossibile, valutare la produzione di John Zorn con i tradizionali strumenti critici: una delle caratteristiche più “geniali" e in un certo senso eversive del sassofonista e compositore newyorkese è infatti certamente quella di avere sottratto progressivamente la propria musica alle traiettorie dialettiche conosciute, attraverso ...

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Paradoxical Frog: Union

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Album prettamente free-jazz, Union è la seconda e ultima (per ora) fatica del trio Paradoxical Frog, che annovera Ingrid Laubrock al sax, Kris Davis al piano e Tyshawn Sorey alla batteria. Data l'implicita natura del genere suonato, non è facile decifrare in pochi ascolti un opera composta in maggioranza da brani lunghi il cui svolgimento è ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il disco è nuovo, ma il mistero è sempre lo stesso. Da che pianeta proviene la musica di Roscoe Mitchell? Siamo naturalmente consapevoli che Roscoe si inscrive nella dialettica della tradizione africana-americana e che ne porta a compimento i tratti più avanzati. Ma lo stesso fatichiamo a rintracciare nitidi codici di riferimento, specie quando l'autore tiene ...

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Boyd Lee Dunlop: The Lake Reflections

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Che ruolo artistico avrebbe avuto Boyd Lee Dunlop se gli eventi della vita non lo avessero tenuto ai margini - e per lungo tempo separato - dal mondo della musica? Non possiamo saperlo ed è inutile chiederselo, resta però il rimpianto per un talento sprecato, come spesso è accaduto nell'universo musicale afro-americano. La vicenda del pianista ...

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Matt Parker: Worlds Put Together

Read "Worlds Put Together" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Saxophonist Matt Parker is an old soul. You can hear that in his music. On his debut release Worlds Put Together, he channels Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Dexter Gordon. It's just that this jazz geezer happens to be 33 years old.Like Lester Young, he creates music without typecasting it as “jazz." It's just ...

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Bob Marley & The Wailers: Kaya Deluxe Edition

Read "Kaya Deluxe Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

It's telling that the photos of Bob Marley adorning the first half of the comprehensive booklet with this 'Deluxe Edition' of Kaya show the late third-world icon beaming and smiling right and left, much as he does on the front cover. In contrast, the photos interspersed with song lyrics and recording detail in the latter half ...

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Roby Glod / Roberta Piket / Mark Tokar / Klaus Kugel: Op Der Schmelz Live

Read "Op Der Schmelz Live" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

This pan-European-American collective quartet, named after the Op Der Schmelz venue in Luxemburg (where this album was recorded), focuses in transforming intuitively detailed sonic moments into balanced movements, full of surprises and risk- taking. The quartet is comprised of four experienced improvisers--Luxemburg-based saxophonist Roby Glod, New Yorker pianist Roberta Piket, Ukrainian bassist Mark Tokar and Köln-based ...

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Satoko Fujii Ma-Do: Time Stands Still

Read "Time Stands Still" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

In terms of CD releases, pianist Satoko Fujii passed the bandleader baton to her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, in 2012, resulting in two exceptional albums on the Libra Records label: the trumpet/piano duo outing, Muku, and Forever, from Tamura's European folk music-flavored Gato Libre group. For the always prolific Fujii, a year without a release under ...


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