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Sidony Box: Rules

by Glenn Astarita
March 22, 2013

French mix-master Venux Deluxe (Magma, Gong), duly captures his fellow countrymen's exuberant sound amid his penchant for detail on the trio's third album which is a powerful composite of jazz power trio fare and other stylistic factors. Thumping backbeats, thorny time signatures, pumped-up grooves and a few quieter moments make for a comprehensive program.

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Steve Beresford / Martin Kuchen/ Stale Liavik Solberg: Three Babies

Read "Three Babies" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 22, 2013

Free improvisation is a relatively new form of musical art but it has already introduced a variety of approaches for spontaneous, creative and collaborative musical articulation. The trio comprises of one of the forefathers of the British school of improvised music, pianist Steve Beresford and fellow Scandinavian conspirators, Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen and Norwegian drummer Ståle ...

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Paolo Lepore e Jazz Studio Orchestra: Vie d’[h]eros[es]

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2013

Ricordare Carmelo Bene, specie in quel di Puglia (dove il disco è stato registrato nel maggio scorso), è sempre cosa buona e giusta. Se poi lo si fa con temerarietà, genialità e rigore (tutti insieme, sì), incluso quel sano gusto per la demistificazione (e destrutturazione) che non guasta, meglio ancora. In due parole è quanto trovate ...

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Paul Winter Sextet: Count Me In

Read "Count Me In" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2013

Il sassofonista Paul Winter deve la sua fama prevalentemente alla formazione del suo Consort, il gruppo che ha guidato a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni '60 in un percorso di avvicinamento dal jazz alla world music con spiccata impronta ecologista, e nel quale ha tenuto a battesimo nel 1970 la nascita degli Oregon (i quattro ...

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Franz Hautzinger's Poet Congress: Weltallende

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2013

Per prima cosa, che costa poca fatica, fatevi un giro su Google Immagini cercando August Walla. Infantile e psichedelico, storico esponente dell'Art Brut, l'austriaco Walla è stato pittore e poeta di grande originalità e da una serie di frammenti dei suoi testi nasce questo progetto del trombettista Franz Hautzinger, alla testa del suo Poet Congress. La ...

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Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias

Read "Functional Arrhythmias" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 21, 2013

Ever the thinker, saxophonist Steve Coleman now delves into the connection between human biology and music with Functional Arrhythmias, perhaps his most accessible release in recent memory. With a vast discography that has covered everything from unadulterated funk in 1988's Sine Die (Pegasus) to advanced concepts in 2011's The Mancy of Sound (Pi), his curiosity and ...

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Sex Mob: Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sex Mob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota)

Read "Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sex Mob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota)" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 21, 2013

Founded 17 years ago as a showcase for leader Steven Bernstein's unique slide trumpet, Sex Mob has since embraced a far more ambitious mission: to revive the adventurous spirit of prewar jazz. Bernstein realized early on that playing radically altered covers was the best way to lure an audience into his roguish sound world. Since then ...

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Lucien Dubuis Trio: Future Rock

Read "Future Rock" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 21, 2013

The entire debate that bids one to take sides regarding art being either made by conservatory trained artistes or original primitives is quite the red herring. Sure, punk rock favored emotion over skill, but nobody would argue against Television guitarist Tom Verlaine's talent or the folk music of guitarist Bill Frisell. If you can play and ...

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Stephan Micus: Panagia

by John Kelman
March 21, 2013

Almost like clockwork since 1983 (though he began his association with the label, on its subsidiary JAPO label, in 1977 with Implosions), multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has been delivering albums to ECM every one-to-three years. His modus operandi is largely the same: continue to scour the world for rarely exposed ethnic instruments and use them in contexts ...

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Mark Solborg Trio feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker: The Trees

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2013

Per l'esibizione al Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2011 il chitarrista Mark Solborg invita ad aggregarsi al proprio trio due leggende dell'improvvisazione come il sassofonista britannico Evan Parker e il trombettista statunitense Herb Robertson (con cui Solborg aveva in passato inciso [NOD]). Nel corso di una manciata di concerti che affascinano le platee della capitale danese e della ...