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Paul Hardcastle: VII

by Jeff Winbush
May 3, 2013

Paul Hardcastle's greatest strength? Consistency. Paul Hardcastle's greatest weakness? Also consistency. Before you applaud or boo Hardcastle you must admit this: the man knows what he does best and he is not about to stop doing it based on what critics say when his global audience tells him that's exactly the way they like it.

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Charles Lloyd / Jason Moran: Hagar's Song

Read "Hagar's Song" reviewed by Enrique Turpin

by Enrique Turpin
May 3, 2013

No habrá que pasar por alto que la grabación de Hagar's Song no está producida por Manfred Eicher, sino por el propio Charles Lloyd junto con su mujer y mánager Dorothy Darr. El asunto debió de surgir de un modo natural, mientras el matrimonio observaba tal vez una de las fantásticas puestas de sol que se ...

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Mario Adnet: Amazonia, on the Forest Trail

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 3, 2013

Figura di spicco dell'odierna scena brasiliana, il chitarrista e compositore Mario Adnet firma un CD dagli intenti estremamente ambiziosi. Il fine è quello di rivisitare in chiave orchestrale la miglior tradizione musicale del proprio paese, tra elementi colti e popolari. Sia nel titolo che nella scelta dei temi, il progetto intende far risaltare l'importanza di polmoni ...

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Eberhard Weber: Résumé

Read "Résumé" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 3, 2013

Ormai impossibilitato a tornare a esibirsi su un palcoscenico per le conseguenze dell'infarto che lo ha colpito nell'aprile 2007 mentre era in tour con il gruppo di Jan Garbarek, il contrabbassista Eberhard Weber non rinuncia a fornirci qualche nuovo esempio della sua arte, curando personalmente questo CD composto da dodici frammenti estratti dalle sue esibizioni in ...

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Max Nagl Ensemble: Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna

Read "Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 3, 2013

Si può trovare di tutto in questa musica per nonetto scritta da Max Nagl, cinquantenne austriaco che vanta una lunga e prestigiosa esperienza: cool, mainstream, fusion, free, etno jazz... Tutte queste suggestioni o matrici possibili vengono però frullate e filtrate da una sofisticata orchestrazione di stampo tipicamente mitteleuropeo. Si potrebbero rintracciare i precedenti di una simile ...

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The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 3, 2013

Dal giorno della sua pubblicazione mezzo mondo editoriale musicale è pieno di commenti entusiastici relativi a The Jazz Age, e le famose 4 o 5 stelle si sprecano. Bryan Ferry ci è simpatico e troviamo pure questa idea fondamentalmente divertente e corroborante ma pregherei quel mezzo mondo di scendere con i piedi per terra. Il signor ...

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Kendrick Scott Oracle: Conviction

Read "Conviction" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
May 2, 2013

From the selfless prayer in the opening track to the sampled words of wisdom from martial arts great Bruce Lee in the track “Be Water," drummer Kendrick Scott's Conviction is an extension of self-motivated and thoughtful music that was witnessed in his 2007 debut The Source on his fledgling World Culture Music label. There is a ...

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Liane Carroll: Ballads

Read "Ballads" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 2, 2013

Ballads is a great title for an album full of slow tempo, beautifully arranged, songs of love and romance. So it's a perfect choice as the title for British singer Liane Carroll's album. Except that it falls way short of communicating just what an achievement this album is.Carroll's previous album, Up And Down (Quiet ...

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Dave Haskell Group: Pivot Point

Read "Pivot Point" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 2, 2013

A one-time highly respected sideman and improviser in the San Francisco area, guitarist Dave Haskell put most of these activities on hold after becoming a commercial airline pilot. After hanging up his wings, the artist re-enters the scene with his tight-knit core band and garners the expertise of prominent West Coast musicians, guitarist Robben Ford, keyboardist ...

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Boney James: The Beat

Read "The Beat" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
May 2, 2013

In the crowded field of 50,000 smooth jazz saxophones, only a handful are blessed with a distinctive sound of their own and if Boney James isn't first in his class he should be high on the list. James can play with both raw power and gentle, soulful restraint. There's more restraint than power on The Beat, ...