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Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: Somewhere
by John Kelman
It's been four years since a recorded peep has been heard from pianist Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio, despite continuing to perform a few select dates each year. But even its last few ECM releases--2009's Yesterdays, 2007's My Foolish Heart and 2004's The Out-of-Towners--were all culled from a clearly fruitful 2001, making it well over a decade ...
Lisa Young Quartet: The Eternal Pulse
by Ian Patterson
Melbourne jazz singer Lisa Young has been a mainstay of the Australian jazz scene for over two decades, whether leading quartets or as a member of Coco's Lunch, the award winning a cappella group she co-founded in the mid-1990s. The Eternal Pulse--her fourth album as leader--marries konnakol with Young's personal take on vocal improvisation in an ...
Larry Corban: The Circle Starts Here
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Larry Corban keeps a picture of Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) on the wall of his practice room. The Belgium-born Gypsy guitarist/swing pioneer was a master of tripping from single note melodies to crisp chords--and keeping it all swinging in his collaborations with violinist Stephane Grappelli.Corban takes his Django inspiration well on the opener of ...
Rob Mazurek Octet: Skull Sessions
by AAJ Italy Staff
È successo da qualche parte tra l'esordio dell'Exploding Star Orchestra, We Are All from Somewhere Else, e il varo del quintetto Sound Is. All'improvviso, come per incanto, ogni tassello del mosaico Rob Mazurek è andato magicamente al suo posto. Non che negli anni precedenti fossero mancati i colpi d'ala. Ripescate e riascoltate quanto disseminato dalla metà ...
Per Tjernberg: Music Is My Salvation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tre coordinate: Archie Sheep, James Brown e il Frank Zappa orchestrale. Dedicato al compositore Kjell Westling (1942-2010). Richiami e citazioni da Harry Partch, Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Phil Spectors, Santeria, Hermeto Pascoal, Garth Hudsons, Herbie Hancock, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Igor Stravinsky. Il primo lavoro di del multistrumentista e compositore svedese Per Tjernberg è una sommatoria ...
Gianni Cellamare & Taranto 4tet: ‘U popole mije
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il polistumentrista e cantante pugliese assembla qui un curioso gruppo dal timbro fusion e pesca nella tradizione popolare per le composizioni, perlopiù cantate in dialetto tarantino. Grazie anche alle caratteristiche peculiari della voce di Cellamare, profonda e dai toni ancestrali, che contrasta con quelli elettrici, blues e funky degli strumenti, ne scaturisce un album singolare, dai ...
Eyot: Drifters
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quartetto serbo nato nel 2008 e qui al suo secondo album (dopo Horizon, 2010), Eyot pratica una musica (un sound, ma non solo) del tipo che sembra (voler) essere già nell'orecchio di chi ascolta ancora prima che ciò avvenga. L'iniziale She Is Dreaming of a Better Day," per la verità, non è neanche male, con un ...
Christian McBride & Inside Straight: People Music
by J Hunter
Musicians create bands for many things: To gather like-minded artists together, or to achieve some grand artistic vision; Christian McBride created Inside Straight to get a gig. It seems Village Vanguard owner Lorraine Gordon loved McBride but wouldn't book him with his regular, fusion-heavy outfit--or, as Gordon put it, that rock 'n' roll band." Necessity is ...
Sudo Quartet: Live at Banlieue Bleue
by John Sharpe
Such is the strength and conviction with which the Sudo Quartet performs that thoughts immediately turn to how they developed such a cohesive group sound. With no liners and no information on the web, the genesis of the unit remains a mystery, though the same foursome feature on four tracks on bassist Joelle Leandre's At the ...
Laszlo Gardony: Clarity
by Hrayr Attarian
Pianist Laszlo Gardony's Clarity is a single, composed on the spot, piano sonata comprising ten movements. The contemplative and intimate music bears marks of his various life experiences, from his classical training in his native Budapest to his career as a jazz educator at Boston's Berklee College of Music.Recorded in a single sitting in ...

