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Bobby McFerrin: spirityouall
by C. Michael Bailey
Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks are the most innovative jazz voices of the past 50 years. Our current subject, McFerrin, took the technical capabilities of the human voice, remolding them into the fantastic and delightful forms we recognise as his genius today. spirityouall is McFerrin's celebration of both his father, Robert McFerrin, Sr., the ...
Laszlo Gardony: Clarity
by Franz A. Matzner
It is never a good idea to judge a book by its cover and even less so a music album. However, in the case of Lazlo Gardony's solo release Clarity the cover image depicting the pianist sitting at the piano as a young boy, accompanied by his stuffed bear, pretty much says it all.Full ...
Ape Club: Ape Club
by Eyal Hareuveni
Ape Club is a new Norwegian quartet that has been operating since 2009 and plays jazz at the crossroads of be-bop and early free jazz of the late fifties and early sixties. Its debut album blends inspirations of such great composers as Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, spiced with modern pop song structures, folksy ...
Stick Men: Deep
by Glenn Astarita
Interestingly enough, this production was funded by fans through the Pledge Music website. The positive outcome should instill delight and a sense of fulfillment for the band's patrons, perhaps one of the densest incarnations of a progressive-rock trio imaginable. Tony Levin's (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel) Chapman Stick work, coupled with Markus Reuter's (Tuner, Europa String Choir) ...
Samo Salamon Trio: Eleven Stories
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella recente conversazione che abbiamo fatto con lui, Roberto Dani ci parlava della sua collaborazione con il chitarrista sloveno Samo Salamon, che considera tra quelle in cui si sente più a proprio agio. Questo Eleven Stories, in trio con il multistrumentista francese Michel Godard è il più recente di una serie ormai cospicua di frutti di ...
Myriad3: Tell
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tell è il debutto di un piano trio canadese formato da tre ex allievi dell'Università di Toronto che suonano regolarmente nei locali del capoluogo dell'Ontario. Il più noto è il pianista Chris Donnelly, che ha già pubblicato due dischi a suo nome nel 2008 e nel 2011. Il primo (Solo) è stato favorevolmente accolto dalla critica ...
Gianluca Figliola 5tet: It's Strictly Forbidden
by AAJ Italy Staff
It's Strictly Forbidden è l'album d'esordio del chitarrista Gianluca Figliola, che a capo di un quinetetto dalle grandi doti tecniche ed espressive realizza un itinerario di nove brani, che partono dalle radici blues per poi andare verso diverse forme stilistiche. A cominciare dalle venature irruente del bop nell'iniziale “Bye Bye Wes," evidentemente dedicata all'icona di Montgomery, ...
Zeng Ming: Mu Dan Ting
by AAJ Italy Staff
La musica Kunqu, nata in Cina oltre cinque secoli fa per accompagnare il canto di testi drammaturgici corredati di tutto un apparato sceno-coreografico di estrema suggestione, è il terreno su cui si muove questo singolare album (inciso fra 2007 e 2011), in cui tale universo viene spogliato della componente visivo-gestuale e di ogni altro orpello - ...
The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet: Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead
by Bruce Lindsay
It's not jazz, it's not poetry, it's jazzpoetry. At least, that's what Jerry Hooker called it in a review of the 12 March 1962 performance at Southampton University that is captured on Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead. Two of the UK's foremost poets combined with five of the country's finest jazz musicians to become The Live ...
Rich Halley 4: Crossing the Passes
by Dan McClenaghan
Tenor saxophonist Rich Halley kicked his recording career into high gear in 2001 with the flammable Coyotes in the City (Louie Records, 2001), a chunk of free jazz ferocious enough to scare off the feeble and the weak of heart. In a succession of CDs since then--a total of four at Louie Records before switching to ...
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