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John Medeski: A Different Time

Read "A Different Time" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Organ ace John Medeski dons the mask of a left-leaning jazzer teetering on the brink of the jam band precipice when he appears with his co-lead super trio, Medeski, Martin & Wood (MMW), or in any number of other contexts, but that's his public face; his private pianistic side is on display on the aptly title ...

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Nicolas Bearde: Visions

Read "Visions" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

First the good news: Nicolas Bearde, former back-up singer with Bobby McFerrin, is blessed with a deep, dark, romantic voice reminiscent of Lou Rawls and on this album, which seeks to blend soul with jazz, he is backed by some of the best studio musicians on the West Coast. Now the bad news: ...

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Barry Altschul: The 3dom Factor

Read "The 3dom Factor" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Legendary drummer Barry Altschul, known for his historic collaborations with innovative and influential musicians as Paul Bley, Anthony Braxton and Sam Rivers, knows much about the concept of freedom in music. To be free, as he states in the liner notes, one needs choices and a large vocabulary of musical choices. Atlschul has plenty of choices. ...

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Naked: Get Naked

Read "Get Naked" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

There's no limiting the band Naked to one musical genre or one concept. This band inhabits the worlds of jazz, pop, folk and everything in between, exhibiting a keen sense of what's appropriate in every setting it finds itself. Naked is a mesmerizing unit, a collective whose musical syntax continues to suggest there aren't six musicians ...

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Manolo Cabras & Basic Borg: I Woluldn't Be Sure

Read "I Woluldn't Be Sure" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Basic Borg nasce nel 2005 come quartetto intorno alla figura del contrabbassista cagliaritano Manolo Cabras per trasformarsi qualche anno dopo in quintetto grazie all'arrivo del sassofonista Riccardo Luppi. Ed è con questa formazione che viene dato alla stampe per l'etichetta belga El Negocito Records questo I Wouldn't Be Sure, che è album di contrasti e di ...

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Antonio Jasevoli Tie Trio – Antonello Salis: My Own Experience – The Music of Jimi Hendrix

Read "My Own Experience – The Music of Jimi Hendrix" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Si sviluppa su più piani sovrapposti e concatenati questo ingegnoso lavoro del chitarrista napoletano Antonio Jasevoli. Anzitutto l'organico: il nocciolo è rappresentato dal Tie Trio (Jasevoli/Lo Giudice/Tomasi), cui si aggiunge ripetutamente Antonello Salis, cui si sommano a loro volta altre due presenze ricorrenti (Marcello Allulli e David Barittoni) e in due brani la viola da gamba ...

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Fishermanns Orchestra: Wildfang

Read "Wildfang" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Sono in sedici, sono giovani, alcuni molto giovani, vengono dalla svizzera, hanno alle spalle un debutto impegnativo ed ambizioso come Conduction Sessions. Con Wildfang replicano, ancora per una label importante come la Unit Records. Si fanno chiamare Fishermanns Orchestra ma sono... una jazz street band. Sì proprio quelle che attraversano strade e piazze al ritmo indiavolato ...

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The Group: Live

Read "Live" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Mentre il preteso “centro del mondo" del jazz, ormai in sempre più costante ansia dissociativa e ricerca di consensi occasionali, si compiace delle gesta pop - nemmeno troppo pop e nemmeno troppo originali - di una Esperanza Spalding o sugli “originali" innesti hip-hop nella musica di Robert Glasper [ok, la memoria di tutti fa difetto, non ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III

Read "Canada Day III" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Dopo la prova notevole in Canada Day Octet, Harris Eisenstadt torna alla formula più frequentata del quintetto, al suo terzo capitolo, con risultati se possibili ancor più affascinanti. Un repertorio molto sofisticato, cesellato con cura in un anno di arrangiamenti ritoccati e un montaggio finale assai lucido, che rende giustizia ad ogni voce strumentale e scava ...

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Lee Tomboulian: Imaginarium

Read "Imaginarium" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Terry Gilliam's 2009 movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was a complex, complicated, fantasy tale. Lee Tomboulian's Imaginarium doesn't quite match Gilliam's ambitious, if flawed, breadth of vision--after all, Tomboulian constructs this particular Imaginarium with just a piano and an occasional accordion--but he still displays an impressive range of ideas on this enjoyable recording.Tomboulian ...


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