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Sursumcorda: Musica d’acqua
by AAJ Italy Staff
Già nel precedente lavoro - La porta dietro la cascata, doppio - i Sursumcorda avevano dedicato metà dello spazio alle loro “canzoni senza parole," strumentali - per lo più molto brevi, quasi dei semplici aforismi, delle allusioni in musica - nati come commento all'immagine. Questo nuovo album (singolo, e che non raggiunge la mezz'ora di durata, ...
Sam Kulik: Escape from Society
by AAJ Italy Staff
In una ovvia visione veramente “Americo centrica" i vari recensori dell'opera ultima del signor Sam Kulik (visionario trombonista cresciuto nella piccola cittadina di Worthington nel moderno Massachusetts occidentale) hanno dovuto necessariamente collegare i fili delle influenze del nostro a quelle del dissacratore per eccellenza, sua maestà Frank Zappa. Vorrei modestamente consigliare a questi signori di andare ...
Julius Hemphill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ogni tanto varrebbe la pena di soffermarsi sul ruolo svolto dalle label italiane come Black Saint e Soul Note per la valorizzazione dell'avanguardia jazzistica afroamericana degli anni '80 e '90. All'interno di un catalogo d'eccellenza allestito con lungimiranza da Giovanni Bonandrini, trovano così spazio proposte e nomi relegati ai margini dalle major discografiche d'oltreoceano. Brilla in ...
LSD: Trio Colossus
by Greg Simmons
The detective is hunched over the bar, alone in a dark smoky dive by the waterfront. A blond saunters in, backlit through the gloom by the neon beer light.“Don't you remember me?" she asks.“Why no," he mumbles, “I've got a metal plate in my head and I drink too much vodka."
Duke Ellington: The Duke At Fargo 1940 Special 60th Anniversary Edition
by Chris Mosey
An historic double album, the only one to feature the Duke Ellington band in the greatest of its many incarnations, playing a dance date. It captures the immediacy and chaotic magic of the 1940 orchestra in a way the carefully manicured studio recordings and even radio broadcasts of the time just can't do. ...
John Medeski: A Different Time
by Doug Collette
John Medeski's A Different Time certainly lives up to its title. It is both everything and nothing like what might be expected from a musician whose stock in trade is a concerted effort to avoid the predictable, as a charter member of Medeski Martin & Wood, in the course of his many live solo efforts and ...
Beegie Adair: Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio
by C. Michael Bailey
The true beauty of any Beegie Adair recording is that it will be straight down the middle mainstream jazz. It is money in the bank. Adair's 50-year career has found her leading her jazz trio, writing advertising jingles and accompanying vocalists, as she does on the present Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio. Ramey, a ...
Norbert Stein: Pata On The Cadillac
by Glenn Astarita
German tenor saxophonist Norbert Stein is a distinguished composer and leader. He can prompt laughter, despair, and mesmerize the listener via regimented arrangements, sparked by difficult time signatures and multilayered sound mosaics. A self-described patamusician, inferring the Pataphysics movement started in 1948 by French playwright Alfred Jarry, Stein proffers an existential realm of thought, equated to ...
Thomas Albaek Jakobsen's Flux: Relationships
by Eyal Hareuveni
The aptly-titled Relationships describes best the debut release of Danish drummer Thomas Albæk Jakobsen's quintet Flux. It is all about the relationships between the musicians, their emphatic interplay, how they inspire each other and the way comprising pieces are weaved together to form a distinctive whole. Jakobsen's well-crafted compositions have a strong melodic ...
Osvaldo Coluccino: Oltreorme
by John Eyles
Osvaldo Coluccino's debut album on Another Timbre, Atto, was one of 2012's more pleasant surprises. Despite Coluccino's history of composing for conventional instruments--his release immediately preceding Atto was String Quartets (NEOS, 2012)--for the composition featured on Atto he opted to only employ (unspecified) acoustic objects which he struck, rubbed or blew into. Using no electronic manipulation, ...
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