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SVIN: Secretly We Are Gay

Read "Secretly We Are Gay" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The Danish quartet SVIN sees its mission to “create a greater genre diversity in a world where the music industry's cash register sets the agenda." In its rebellious musical universe this band find inspiration in the manic aggression of Sonic Youth, mixing it with the fragile, celestial compositions of Arvo Pärt and spicing it with African ...

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Soft Machine Legacy: Burden of Proof

Read "Burden of Proof" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Subsequent to its psychedelic late 60s existence, Soft Machine redeployed its musicality into a hybrid form of British prog-rock meets avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion schema. The band invoked a signature sound, partly due to keyboardist Mike Ratlledge's fuzz-toned Lowry organ performances and other prominent factors. A chief proponent of Britain's fabled Canterbury music scene, many ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

Read "Finas Misturas" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Pianist, composer and educator Antonio Adolfo's second instrumental release as a leader, on his own AAM label, is entitled Finas Misturas (in English, “fine mixtures"). The name refers to the fusion of jazz elements with the rhythms and sensibilities of Adolfo's native Brazil. The result is a pleasing batch of six covers and four originals.

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The Green Violinist: More Thrill & Never Ending Blessings

Read "More Thrill & Never Ending Blessings" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

This Belgian progressive-rock outfit's debut frames its moniker on the title of artist Marc Chagall's The Green Violinist. Lead vocalist Vincent Dufresne derived inspiration from the painting after wading through some personal issues in 2003. The artist states that upon hearing the Canadian punk/post-rock band Silver Mount Zion's “13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of ...

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Claudio Filippini: Facing North

Read "Facing North" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Nelle note di copertina Claudio Filippini descrive il momento in cui Ermanno Basso - produttore della Cam Jazz - gli ha proposto di registrare questo disco: «era un periodo un po' turbato della mia vita, musicalmente mi sembrava che non riuscissi più a crescere». Incidere un album in trio con due musicisti di grande lavatura come ...

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Sean Moran Small Elephant Band: Tusk

Read "Tusk" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il giovane chitarrista newyorchese Sean Moran riunisce in questo bel lavoro un quintetto dalle sonorità preziose e dall'incedere aconflittuale nel cui agire un ruolo assolutamente centrale gioca la composizione (tutti di Moran i nove pezzi in scaletta), con la definizione di percorsi stilistico-espressivi lucidi e coesi che sembrano rivelare un attento ascolto delle frange più avanzate ...

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Hiromi - The Trio Project: Move

Read "Move" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Ci sono dischi che per essere pienamente apprezzati, pur essendo fatti a brani, devono suonare da capo a fondo. In passato questi lavori si chiamavano concept album o opere a programma. La trentaquattrenne Hiromi Uehara è una pianista e compositrice che ammette le sue numerose influenze, tutte inequivocabilmente di musicisti ultravirtuosi (da Franz Listz a Chick ...

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Maria Márquez: Tonada

Read "Tonada" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Credo siano davvero pochi, nel mondo del jazz, a conoscere Maria Marquez, cantante venezuelana ormai sessantenne, che opera principalmente in California dove ha realizzato una manciata di album (appena cinque) da trent'anni a questa parte. L'ultimo lavoro, Tonada, è stato inciso tra l'agosto 2006 e il maggio 2008 dopo una gestazione di altri due anni. Nata ...

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Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Basta dare un'occhiata ai nomi che compongono il settetto chiamato The New Mellow Edwards e ci si rende subito conto che il gruppo è da paura. Sette musicisti, compreso il leader, tra i più attivi e influenti della scena newyorchese, ognuno titolare di progetti che stanno marchiando a fuoco le sorti del jazz contemporaneo, riuniti per ...

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Judy Dyble: Talking With Strangers

Read "Talking With Strangers" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

British vocalist Judy Dyble is one of the founding members of the celebrated folk-rock ensemble Fairport Convention. After leaving the band, she became involved in transitory but critically successful musical endeavors, and eventually retired from the music scene to raise a family. Four decades later she reinvented her career with this album, originally issued throughout Europe ...


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