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Caswell Sisters featuring Fred Hersch: Alive In The Singing Air

Read "Alive In The Singing Air" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 15, 2013

Rachel and Sara Caswell's Alive in the Singing Air is an interesting and vibrant example of how rich a loam of invention and innovation jazz music is. The genre and its repertoire has readily endured and thrived in a variety of formats, instrumentation, source music, every degree of freedom represented over its century of existence. On ...

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Kasper Staub Trio: /

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 15, 2013

The unique title of this debut from the young Danish trio headed by pianist Kasper Staub, /, is explained as the sign that stands for the doubts the trio had to shake off and the choices it took in order to create its music. Staub, bassist Jens Mikkel and drummer Anders Vestergaard have collectively accumulated experiences ...

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Nils Landgren: The Moon, The Stars and You

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 15, 2013

Dopo appena un anno dalla pubblicazione del disco di Nils Landgren The Moon, The Stars and You ne viene pubblicata una ristampa, completa di un DVD in cui il trombonista e vocalista svedese ed il suo quartetto sono ripresi live al Jazz Club Fasching di Stoccolma. Un tale successo di pubblico è più che meritato. Sulla ...

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Sibylla Giger: Acoustic Portraits of European Cities (2005-2011)

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 15, 2013

Acoustic Portraits of European Cities (2005-2011) è un'opera pazza e poetica insieme. La svizzera Sibylla Giger (che è molte cose insieme: artista e performer, assemblatrice di suoni, viaggiatrice, sound-collagista) ha confezionato un viaggio in nove personalissime tappe (di circa cinque minuti ciascuna) delineandone i diversi paesaggi sonori/geografici. Ne emerge un viaggio schizofrenico e “situazionauta," dentro i ...

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Offshore: Côte de Cologne

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 15, 2013

Il quintetto Offshore ha ottenuto diversi riconoscimenti internazionali, come nell'ambito dell'European Jazz Prize del 2011, e basa la riuscita del suo album Côte de Cologne, pubblicato nella collana “Next Generation" della Double Moon Records, sul timbro chiaro e ben definito del sassofonista Cristoph Möckel, spesso in primo piano nelle linee melodiche in scaletta. Si tratta di ...

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Christopher Alpiar Quartet: The Jazz Expression

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 15, 2013

Il riferimento chiaro, netto, colmo di rispetto e di incondizionato amore (l'indizio contenuto nel titolo della quarta traccia è del tutto superfluo) è il quartetto periodo Impulse! di John Coltrane. In The Jazz Expression troviamo quindi musica di grande intensità, sorretta da un potente afflato spirituale, da un ribollire di emozioni che coprono l'intera gamma del ...

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Pascal's Triangle: Pascal's Triangle

Read "Pascal's Triangle" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
May 14, 2013

Bringing together three of contemporary jazz's young power players, Pascal's Triangle is an energized, adeptly executed endeavor.All three performers have already proven themselves innovative and exciting musicians in many venues. Here the three meld their individual voices well and take advantage of Le Boeuf's astute compositional talents to deliver eight tunes firmly grounded in ...

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Eyes of a Blue Dog: Rise

by John Kelman
May 14, 2013

As disproportionate as the amount of fine music being made in Norway is to its relatively small population of five million, so, too, is its surprisingly large cadre of outstanding drummers. A quick scan through the list of drummers who have made some kind of name for themselves, both at home and abroad, include--amongst many, many ...

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Satoko Fujii New Trio: Spring Storm

Read "Spring Storm" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 14, 2013

Some of jazz's finest, most innovative and adventurous music can be found in the piano trio format. The list of artists pushing the boundaries is a long one: Vijay Iyer; Hal Galper; Craig Taborn; Brad Mehldau and a good dozen more, conservatively. A name rarely mentioned in that group--in part, because she leads so many groups ...

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Geof Bradfield: Melba!

Read "Melba!" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 14, 2013

Chicago based saxophonist Geof Bradfield's Melba! is a much needed tribute to the criminally underexposed trombonist and arranger Melba Liston. Liston debuted with trumpeter, bandleader Gerald Wilson, was one of the stars of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's bebop big band and devoted herself to arranging after she met pianist Randy Weston with whom she had a long ...