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Daniel Bennett Group: Clockhead Goes to Camp

Read "Clockhead Goes to Camp" reviewed by Mike Oppenheim

by Mike Oppenheim
May 20, 2013

Clockhead Goes to Camp, by the Daniel Bennett Group, is a refreshing album in its originality, positivity, and apparent simplicity. There are many ways in which this is not a typical jazz album. The instrumentation is one of them. Fronted by Daniel Bennett on saxophone and clarinet, a prominent percussion background, folk inspired guitar, and a ...

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Andrea Centazzo Invasion Orchestra: The Battle

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2013

Suite? Sinfonia? Musica a programma? Per alcuni aspetti, e in diverse misure, questo impegnativo lavoro di Andrea Centazzo potrebbe essere assimilato a ognuna di quelle forme compositive della musica classica. Ovviamente questa vuole essere solo un'illazione provocatoria che non intendo approfondire sotto il profilo tecnico. Quello che mi sembra incontestabile è che un disco come The ...

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FrancePorter: Dauermarsch

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2013

L'album Dauermarsch del trio FrancePorter si sviluppa attraverso sette tracce scritte dal pianista Francis Lehmann, due delle quali in collaborazione con Raphael Walser, bassista di questa giovane formazione completata da Jonas Ruther alla batteria. Nei loro spartiti viene data molta importanza al suono del pianoforte, che risulta essere di frequente - dal punto di vista espressivo ...

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Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch Double Trio: Fun House

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2013

Benoît Delbecq è un pianista di punta della scena europea, attratto tanto dal jazz quanto dalle astrazioni geometriche della musica contemporanea. Ma anche dalla poliritmia e dai timbri dell'Africa. Fred Hersch è uno dei rari pianisti che sono riusciti a operare una sintesi convincente tra Bill Evans e Thelonious Monk. Senza gli autocompiacimenti oggi tanto frequenti. ...

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Colin Stetson: New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2013

Terzo [e ultimo] capitolo della saga New History Warfare, questo To See More Light rappresenta un'ulteriore evoluzione nel percorso del sassofonista Colin Stetson, artista che negli ultimi anni ha alternato le collaborazioni con Tom Waits, David Byrne, Arcade Fire a una ricerca personale dalla precisa fisionomia. La ricetta è semplice: senza alcuna sovraincisione, ma solamente con ...

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Denis Fournier / Nicole Mitchell: Watershed

Read "Watershed" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 19, 2013

Flautist Nicole Mitchell has found a supportive outlet in the Paris-based Rogue Art imprint, with her past outings including Anaya (2009), Emerald Hills (2010), The Ethiopian Princess Meets The Tantric Priest (2012) and Arc Of O (2012), and she is the most well-known name on Watershed. However she sits second in the billing below French percussionist ...

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Noah Haidu: Momentum

Read "Momentum" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 19, 2013

A quick glance at the monochrome photo that adorns the cover of Momentum could lead to the impression that the pianist is George Gershwin. It isn't, of course, it's Noah Haidu and this is his second album as leader. Any similarities between Haidu and Gershwin end with the shadowy cover shot--Haidu most definitely looks to more ...

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Matthew Sheens: Every Eight Seconds

Read "Every Eight Seconds" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 19, 2013

In 2009, pianist Matthew Sheens became the first Australian to win a Downbeat Magazine Student Award, but that's hardly the only honor that's been bestowed upon this gifted musician. Sheens has been racking up grants, scholarships and awards at a rapid pace, as he moved from the University of Adelaide, where he completed his undergraduate work ...

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Rich Halley 4: Crossing the Passes

Read "Crossing the Passes" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 19, 2013

Saxophonist Rich Halley has always had a thick, brassy tone and a bold and daring improvisational approach. Over the years a certain contemplative wisdom has permeated his music enhancing its intellectual edge without tempering its fiery zeal. The result, as demonstrated on Crossing The Passes is a sublime balance of the cerebral and visceral.On ...

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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Brooklyn Babylon

Read "Brooklyn Babylon" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 18, 2013

Part of the audience engagement process in multimedia performance is the integral dynamic of conflict and resolution between forms. Take one of them away and you have a different sensory experience. So, having witnessed graphic artist Danijel Zezelj and Darcy James Argue's Secret Society create separate but integrated works of art in the live performance of ...