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Mara Rosenbloom Quartet: Songs from the Ground

Read "Songs from the Ground" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 11, 2013

Pianist Mara Rosenbloom frames her second album on personal recollections encapsulating childhood, family matters, and challenging situations. Therefore, the idealization for this outing is not merely steeped within an austere band approach. Taken from this perspective, her musicality embeds or perhaps synchronizes a form of melodic goodness with a traumatic periphery. Rosenbloom's brand ...

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Anthony Strong: Stepping Out

Read "Stepping Out" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 10, 2013

Not too many years ago it seemed that the art of the male jazz vocalist was heading in the same direction as black and white televisions and 8-track cartridges. One or two notable voices kept the flame alive, but new, young, vocal talent wasn't emerging. Then it started: a slow process, but new male singers began ...

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Bernt Rosengren Big Band: Bernt Rosengren Big Band with Horace Parlan piano, Doug Raney guitar

Read "Bernt Rosengren Big Band with Horace Parlan piano, Doug Raney guitar" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 10, 2013

Swedish saxophonist Bernt Rosengren had already made his mark in various small group settings by the time he turned his attention to building a big band in the mid '70s. His tenor had captured the attention of many an ear in director Roman Polanski's Knife In The Water (Zespol, 1962), and his work with trumpeter Thad ...

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Jan Shapiro: Piano Bar After Hours

Read "Piano Bar After Hours" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 10, 2013

Professor and former Berklee College Voice Department Chair Jan Shapiro does make it into the studio occasionally. Her previous recordings include Read Between The Lines (Self Produced, 1997), Not Commercial (Self Produced, 1998) and Back to Basics (Self Produced, 2006). Shapiro's fourth recording, Piano Bar After Hours continues where she left off with Basics, presenting a ...

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Herd of Instinct: Conjure

Read "Conjure" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 10, 2013

Celebrated Southern Californian progressive-rock band Djam Karet has extended the scope of its Firepool Records label by signing Herd of Instinct. With the ensemble's sophomore release for the label, Karet guitarist Gayle Ellett augments the core trio by performing on a vast array of keyboards, and uses the Mellotron as a vehicle to summon a classic ...

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The Harris Group: Errands

Read "Errands" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 10, 2013

Ric Harris demonstrates a lean and mature sound on the Chicago guitarist's second release, Errands. Consisting entirely of Harris originals built around themes explored on his debut, Choices (Self Produced, 2012). Here, however, they are more evolved and account for greater textual unity.Harris' lilting, multilayered, harmonies form the focal point of each composition. The ...

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Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice Quartet: Contemporary

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2013

Il quartetto guidato da Giuliana Soscia e Pino Jodice ha al suo attivo già alcuni lavori di un certo interesse, come Latitango e Antiche pietre, improntati a riletture moderne della tradizione tanguera e piazzolliana. Una ricerca che questo CD approfondisce e oltrepassa, affrontando con una certa libertà anche scenari musicali diversi. Al centro, ancor più che ...

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Hobby Horse: Eponymous

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2013

Gli americani Kinzelman e Rehmer, ormai italiani (per l'esattezza umbri) d'adozione, e il fiorentino Tamborrino - trentenni, poco più o poco meno - compongono un trio tutto sommato anomalo, nato nel 2008 e di cui questo Eponymous è il primo album ufficiale, dopo gli autoprodotti Trevi (2010) e Godrush (2012, EP). Vi confluiscono schegge musicali di ...

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Leo Ciesa: Coat of Arms

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2013

Leo Ciesa bazzica da anni gli ambienti off di mezzo mondo - prima di stabilirsi nel 1986 a New York ha vissuto in California, poi in Svezia e suonato nelle località più improbabili - facendo della sperimentazione, della ricerca e dell'anticonformismo la propria ragione artistica. Così lo si è visto frequentare per lungo tempo l'ensemble di ...

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Sean Noonan: A Gambler's Hand

Read "A Gambler's Hand" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 10, 2013

L'impiego di un quartetto d'archi in ambiti jazzistici e di improvvisazione non è più una novità già da parecchio tempo; sono molti infatti musicisti e compositori che hanno contribuito ad abbattere i muri che separano sempre più debolmente i vari settori della musica contemporanea (basti pensare a Kronos Quartet e John Zorn tanto per fare un ...