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Ches Smith and These Arches: Hammered

Read "Hammered" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 7, 2013

Four progressive-jazz and improvising luminaries lend their expertise for New York City-based drummer Ches Smith's foray into a multi-purposed set, exploring and splitting the frontiers of avant-garde jazz, rock and other genres into asymmetrical components. Thus far, the artist has been in the thick of things, amassing an impressive discography, performing and recording with notables such ...

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Thisbe Vos: Under Your Spell

Read "Under Your Spell" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 7, 2013

A Southern California Girl with a love of standards and romantic music, Thisbe Vos is not your typical female vocalist performing Louis Prima/ Keely Smith duets in a jazz band. Born in the Netherlands, Vos began exploring music by playing the harp and doing musical theatre and only after joining the British swing band, The Jive ...

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Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol.1

Read "Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol.1" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 7, 2013

Vibraphonist Joe Locke doesn't seem to want to put his mallets down for very long. As soon as he arrived at Motéma Music, he released the modern-leaning Signing (Motéma Music, 2012) with the Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group, and partnered up with Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra for the somewhat serene Wish Upon A Star (Motéma Music, 2013). Now, ...

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Guapo: History of the Visitation

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 7, 2013

Siamo al nono album di questa eclettica formazione britannica, il secondo su etichetta Cuneiform, che si rifà a scuole e generi che rimandano non solo ad esperienze ben precise della musica rock progressiva europea, dai King Crimson di Lark's Tongues in Aspic ai Magma di Köhntarkösz, ma a cui piace sconfinare piacevolmente in territori paralleli come ...

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Ernest Dawkins: Afro Straight

Read "Afro Straight" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 7, 2013

Ecco un disco tutto sommato insolito, non facile da decifrare: si tratta infatti di una reinterpretazione di una parte della tradizione afroamericana da parte di un musicista non più giovane, appartenente ad una scuola solitamente associata all'avanguardia. La città in questione, dove questo CD è stato registrato nell'ottobre 2010 e nell'aprile 2012, è Chicago, luogo generatore ...

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Wolfgang Haffner: Heart of the Matter

Read "Heart of the Matter" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 7, 2013

In Heart of the Matter Wolfgang Haffner con leggerezza confeziona una musica fra smooth e nujazz. Molto gli ospiti presenti, tra i quali il famoso baritono Thomas Quastoff con un breve intervento su Melodia del viento, il percussionista e cantante Shovell in Luna e il più noto trombettista tedesco Till Brönner su Here's to Life. Haffner ...

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Musicheria: Le pendu

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 7, 2013

Le pendu, ovvero l'appeso, l'impiccato. Ed effettivamente piuttosto impiccato a una formula pur correttissima ma decisamente sclerotizzata, sempre uguale a se stessa, oltre che tutt'altro che originale, è il quartetto toscano aderente al collettivo Musicadabra che firma questo lavoro. C'è un sax soprano dal suono chiaro e dal fraseggiare fluido a fungere da voce-guida, e tutt'intorno ...

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Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver: Serendipity

Read "Serendipity" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 6, 2013

Currently in the midst of an unprecedented mid-career renaissance, wildly prolific tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been recording for Leo Records at a frantic pace, typically issuing several new albums at a time. Released concurrently with The Edge and The Art of the Duet, Volume One is Serendipity, a title that bears out its namesake. Taped ...

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Steve Heckman Quartet / Quintet: Born To Be Blue

Read "Born To Be Blue" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 6, 2013

Saxophonist Steve Heckman often intentionally stands in the shadow of John Coltrane, as demonstrated on With John In Mind {World City Music, 2003) and Live At Yoshi's (World City Music, 2005), but he's no Coltrane clone. Heckman has absorbed bits and pieces of many masters, so a less exuberant, matte finished take on Sonny Rollins, a ...

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Ron Oswanski: December's Moon

Read "December's Moon" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 6, 2013

Keyboardist Ron Oswanski is known primarily as an audacious organist. He does, however, also bring a unique agility to the accordion and is endowed with a lyrical touch on the piano as his debut album December's Moon amply demonstrates.The dozen tunes cover modern jazz compositions, Oswanski's originals and a Led Zeppelin anthem. The wide ...