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"Killer" Ray Appleton: Naptown Legacy

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Quanti batteristi vorrebbero un'adolescenza come quella di “Killer" Ray Appleton? Nato a Indianapolis nel 1941, ha iniziato a suonare le percussioni a nove anni, formandosi in quella fervida scena musicale accanto a Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Melvin Rhyne, Larry Ridley e altri protagonisti dell'hard-bop anni cinquanta. In quel periodo Indianapolis era uno dei centri propulsivi del ...

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Roman Filiu: Musae

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Dafnison Music è l'etichetta fondata dal batterista di origine cubana Dafnis Prieto allo scopo di presentare sul mercato discografico i propri lavori con pieno controllo su tutte le fasi della realizzazione. Con Musae questo processo viene messo a disposizione per la prima volta di un leader diverso, nella fattispecie il sassofonista, anch'esso di origini cubane, Roman ...

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Girls in Airports: Migration

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Secondo disco a nome del gruppo danese Girls In Airports, un quintetto di giovani musicisti privo di contrabbasso, con due sassofoni in front line, tastiere elettroniche e delle percussioni in stile orientale accanto alla batteria. La musica è curiosa ed eclettica, un jazz moderno che pesca in modo non troppo caratterizzato dal classico stile nordico fino ...

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Ramiz Guliyev: Dialogues with the Tar

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Campione del mugham azero e di quello che ne è un po' lo strumento-simbolo, il tar, l'oggi sessantaseienne Ramiz Guliyev riunisce in questo CD una serie di incisioni che passano in rassegna un po' l'intera gamma delle soluzioni adottate dai compositori contemporanei (quando a loro la musica può esser ricondotta) per “vestire" il tar: dal solo ...

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Miguel Zenon & The Rhythm Collective: Oye!!! Live In Puerto Rico

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by Dan Bilawsky

Puerto Rican pride oozes from every album under alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón's name. Most recently, he explored plena music in a jazz context on the winning Esta Plena (Marsalis Music, 2009), and put a new spin on songs from the Puerto Rican Songbook with Alma Adentro (Marsalis Music, 2011). While those projects differ greatly, with rough-and-tumble ...

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Jan Bang / Erik Honore / Gaute Storaas / Arve Henriksen: Knut Hamsun's Victoria

Read "Knut Hamsun's Victoria" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Given the cinematic nature of albums like ...and poppies from Kandahar (SamadhiSound, 2011), Uncommon Deities (SamadhiSound, 2012) and Cartography (ECM, 2008), it should come as no surprise to find trumpeter/vocalist Arve Henriksen and electronic sound sculptors/Punkt Festival Artistic Directors Jan Bang and Erik Honoré collaborating on a film soundtrack, in this case Norwegian director, playwright and ...

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Molly Holm: Permission

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by C. Michael Bailey

Vocalist Molly Holm has had a potent progressive ("Avant-garde") presence in the Bay Area for three decades, having been an original member of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra and was a featured singer with Terry Riley and Zakir Hussain. Creatively, Holm never grew up into the proper, standard-singing chanteuse that many of her contemporaries did, rather she has ...

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Youn Sun Nah: Lento

Read "Lento" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Youn Sun Nah's rejection of a multi-record deal with French outfit Label Bleu to preserve her artistic freedom indicated that a change was in the air, following five recordings with her French 5tet band. Signed up by German label ACT, Nah released two critically and commercially successful albums, Voyage (2009) and Same Girl (2010), with the ...

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Szilárd Mezei Tubass Quintet: Canons - 2nd Hoisting (LP)

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Schierati in maniera che verrebbe da definire calcistica (Malina a destra, Mezei sul centro destra, Csányi centro sinistra e Hock a sinistra), i quattro contrabbassi del Tubass Quintet, recente creatura (incisione del febbraio 2011, a Novi Sad) di quello che fino a ieri conoscevamo come valente viol(in)ista, rimuginano i loro scuri, a volte abissali arabeschi, tra ...

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Emilio Teubal: Musica Para Un Dragon Dormido

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Musica Para Un Dragon Dormido (il riferimento è alla simbologia utilizzata nel calendario cinese) è la terza pubblicazione del pianista e compositore argentino Emilio Teubal. Con i due album precedenti si era messo in luce grazie ad una miscela di jazz e radici argentine di sicuro impatto ma in qualche modo ancora troppo legata a cliché ...


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