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Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Jeb Bishop: The Flame Alphabet

Read "The Flame Alphabet" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The collaboration between the prolific Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and his Motion Trio with Chicagoan trombonist Jeb Bishop, has produced two albums so far. The live recording, Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro (JACC Records, 2012) and the 2011 studio recording The Flame Alphabet. The addition of Bishop to Amado's trio was organic. Both are experienced ...

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Sean Nowell: The Kung-Fu Masters

Read "The Kung-Fu Masters" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

New York City-based saxophonist Sean Nowell has found a home with the increasingly prominent West Coast modern jazz record label, Posi-Tone Records. His fourth release highlights the turbo-powered acoustic-electric band, The Kung-Fu Masters. Word has it that the ensemble has been creating a buzz in The Big Apple, and in recent times has acted like a ...

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Branford Marsalis: Four MFs Playin' Tunes

Read "Four MFs Playin' Tunes" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Sono passati 23 anni da Mo' Better Blues, esordio discografico del quartetto di Branford Marsalis, anche se la presenza di Terence Blanchard nella colonna sonora del film di Spike Lee, assegna a Crazy People Music, di poco successivo, la palma di primo disco dove la formazione è protagonista assoluta. È un organico che ha visto pochissimi ...

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Peter Evans: Zebulon

Read "Zebulon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Peter Evans ha rappresentato senz'ombra di dubbio, per coloro che lo conoscevano poco o punto, la più sfavillante sorpresa dell'ultimo Bergamo Jazz, dove ha portato giustappunto il trio protagonista di questo CD, inciso un anno prima del concerto bergamasco (il 25 e 26 marzo 2012) nel locale newyorchese che lo intitola. Il disco, poco meno di ...

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Giuseppe Mirabella: Naumachìa

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Abeat Records dà alle stampe Naumachìa, il nuovo lavoro del chitarrista siciliano Giuseppe Mirabella, che in questo episodio si avvale della collaborazione di musicisti di spessore assoluto, come Riccardo Fioravanti al contrabbasso, Stefano Bagnoli alla batteria e Dino Rubino al pianoforte e in alcuni frangenti anche alla tromba. In scaletta troviamo nove brani inediti dal sound ...

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Dylan Ryan: Sky Bleached

Read "Sky Bleached" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La bella energia della West Coast americana torna a farsi apprezzare adeguatamente in questo ottimo album del batterista Dylan Ryan che si presenta in trio con gli eccellenti Timothy Young alla chitarra elettrica e Devin Hoff al basso acustico. Il primo è collaboratore abituale di Wayne Horvitz e dei suoi formidabili Zony Mash (anche nella configurazione ...

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Marco von Orelli 6: Close Ties on Hidden Lanes

Read "Close Ties on Hidden Lanes" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Dopo essersi formato nella Swiss Improviser Orchestra e aver partecipato a Poste Restante del quintetto Musique Brute della sassofonista Co Streiff e Root Down del compositore e clarinettista Tommy Meier, finalmente arriva il “solo" del trombettista svizzero Marco von Orelli. E che bel lavoro! Close Ties on Hidden Lanes è bella musica. Nulla da eccepire. Musica ...

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Lajos Dudas Trio: Live at Porgy & Bess

Read "Live at Porgy & Bess" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Vienna's Porgy & Bess Jazz Club is approaching its twentieth anniversary as an international--but intimate--venue for top jazz talent from Europe and beyond. It's the perfect setting for this live recording from the Lajos Dudas Trio. A Hungarian native living in Germany, clarinetist Dudas is teamed with long-time collaborator, guitarist Phillipp van Endert and bassist Leonard ...

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Oliver Lake / Christian Weber / Dieter Ulrich: All Decks

Read "All Decks" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

So successful was the off-the-cuff meeting that produced For A Little Dancin' (Intakt, 2010) that American reedman Oliver Lake once again renewed acquaintance with the Swiss pairing of drummer Dieter Ulrich and bassist Christian Weber at Zurich's unerhört Festival. But this time out they rang the changes by adding German trombonist Nils Wogram. So far so ...

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Geof Bradfield: Melba!

Read "Melba!" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Melba Liston (1926-1999) isn't one of the big names that comes up when great jazz composer/arrangers are mentioned, but it should be. Starting as a trombonist with some of the greats--Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Count Basie, Art Blakey--she soon began working with Randy Weston, arranging the pianist's composition on Uhuru Africa, (Roulette Records, 1960) and Highlife ...


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