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Jan Shapiro: Piano Bar After Hours
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Jan Shapiro is best known as an educational fixture at Berklee College of Music. She arrived at that venerable institution nearly three decades ago and she's shaped countless voices and careers in the intervening years, serving as teacher, role model and, for more than a decade, head of the vocal department in Berklee's Performance Division. ...
William Hooker: Channels of Consciousness
by John Sharpe
On the face of it the title couldn't be more apt, as drummer William Hooker leads his four accomplices through an organically unfurling invention fashioned from their collective streams of consciousness. But a closer listen betrays signs of premeditation, not least in trumpeter Chris DiMeglio's wistful reiterated motif which reappears at regular junctures during the continuous ...
Frederick Moyer: When Summer Comes
by Chris Mosey
A homage in all but name by American concert pianist Frederick Moyer to one of his heroes, Oscar Peterson. All the songs, save two, formed a regular part of the late, great Canadian's repertoire. The closing number, Moyer's own composition, “Gospel" bears a striking resemblance to Peterson's “Hymn To Freedom." Interestingly, Moyer claims ...
Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol.1
by Edward Blanco
The ever versatile vibraphonist extraordinaire Joe Locke returns to his early days of music-making, where he once felt that jazz was, is and “should always be, people music." On his third recording for the Motema label, Locke presents Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol. 1 designed as a vehicle for people everywhere who need ...
Frederick Moyer: When Summer Comes
by Nicholas F. Mondello
A hardened cynic might think it could be a “grass is greener" rationale for a world-class concert pianist to take on a slew of GAS and jazz standards and record them in a solo format. “Ego-brushing," might also be tossed about. However, in the case of When Summer Comes a fine solo effort by Frederick Moyer, ...
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Now Is
by AAJ Italy Staff
Potremmo essere velocissimi. Il bassista norvegese che oggi abbraccia gli orizzonti texani è davvero uno dei musicisti che sono entrati da qualche anno nel gotha del free più creativo e propositivo. La portoghese Clean Feed, che lo sa da qualche tempo, lo santifica nuovamente con questo Now Is che potrebbe davvero essere la definitiva consacrazione di ...
Steve Moore: Light Echoes
by AAJ Italy Staff
Già attivo da diversi anni, sia in solo (anche sotto diversi pseudonimi) che come metà del duo synth-prog Zombi, il sintetista Steve Moore, ammiratore dichiarato della 'kosmische musik' tedesca, è qui al suo debutto su etichetta Cuneiform. Questo suo nuovo lavoro sembra uscito direttamente dagli anni '70; infatti, non solo la musica richiama direttamente quella di ...
Unitrio: Page 2
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pochi strumenti come l'Hammond hanno un'identità sonora così forte, in grado di connotare immediatamente il timbro di qualsiasi gruppo decida di impiegarlo. Proprio per via di questa personalità così netta, pochi strumenti come l'hammond, se non vengono maneggiati con cura, possono creare stereotipi durissimi a morire, specie se si accompagnano a batteria e sax tenore, l'Hammond ...
Floriano Inàcio Jr.: Floriano Inàcio Jr.
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che ci fa un pianista brasiliano a Lucerna? Probabilmente studia e suona. E suona piuttosto bene, a giudicare da questo album pubblicato dalla Unit Records, con la collaborazione della Università della città svizzera. La Unit è una etichetta che solitamente associamo con il jazz e la musica di avanguardia, ma in questo caso si riveste coi ...
Alexi Tuomarila Trio: Seven Hills
by John Kelman
While not entirely rare, it is relatively uncommon to find relationships forged so strongly that the musicians find themselves working together in multiple contexts, where the names remain the same, only the leader changes. Finnish pianist Alexi Tuomarila and drummer Olavi Louhivuori have been working together in a variety of contexts for the past several years, ...
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