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Guerino Mazzola - Joomi Park: Passionate Message

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2013

Il duo di pianoforti può essere un'esperienza complessa, lo soprattutto quando i musicisti provengono da tradizioni diverse. Allo stesso tempo c'è la possibilità che l'incontro faccia spuntare scintille di bellezza inusitata, nuovi territori che si scoprono quasi casualmente grazie alla novità dell'incontro. Pensiamo a Mary Lou Williams e Cecil Taylor, perchè no? p> Guerino Mazzola viene ...

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Evgeny Masloboev - Anastasia Masloboeva: Your Beautiful Face Makes Me Cry

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2013

Duo padre - figlia, titolo melenso, copertina bucolica che non lascia presagire niente di buono... Tuttavia, essendo l'album pubblicato per la Leo Records, solitamente garanzia di musica intrigante, abbiamo deciso di lasciare da parte questi brutti presentimenti e ci siamo messi all'ascolto. Ci si è così aperto un mondo sonoro fatto di musiche tradizionali gregoriane e ...

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Lorena Favot - Gaetano Valli: Acustikè

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2013

Ben nota in ambito friulano (ha fatto parte dell'Orchestra Phophonix e collaborato tra gli altri con U.T. Gandhi e Massimo De Mattia), Lorena Favot è cantante duttile che si muove con sicurezza nel jazz come nel folk e nel pop. Ed è proprio l'approccio privo di steccati a caratterizzare questo lavoro, cofirmato dal chitarrista Gaetano Valli ...

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Goran Strandberg Nonet: Monks Mood

Read "Monks Mood" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
March 20, 2013

Twentieth-century jazz offered bountiful gifts that musicians will continue to mine for, well, as long as people play jazz. One gift is pianist Thelonious Monk's compositions, which are surely among the music's most original and appealing; as Past Daily states, you can never get too much Monk in your diet. Another gift is the nonet format ...

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Billy Martin's Wicked Knee: Heels Over Head

Read "Heels Over Head" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 20, 2013

After a long series of way under-the radar solo projects, drummer Billy Martin has chosen a more accessible route in the last couple of years, beginning with his duo collaboration with keyboardist Wil Blades, Shimmy (The Royal Potato Family, 2012).The followup to the eponymous seven-track EP, Heels Over Head is equally easy to digest, ...

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Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

Read "Concert in Athens" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 20, 2013

For more than two decades, Eleni Karaindrou has been composing film scores for Theo Angelopoulos and releasing soundtracks on ECM, including Ulysses' Gaze (1995), with violist Kim Kashkashian, and Music for Films, where Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek performs music from the Greek film director's The Beekeeper (1986). Concert in Athens isn't Karaindrou's first live recording; 2006's ...

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Tony Malaby/ Per-Oscar Nilsson / Johnny Aman / Peter Nilsson: 9 Stygn

Read "9 Stygn" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 20, 2013

The sophomore release of Swedish guitarist Per-Oscar Nilsson strengthens his ties with American jazz. His debut, Now! (Connective, 2010), with his own group, featured saxophonist Marcus Strickland. 9 Stygn, recorded a year later, features Nilsson as the main composer for a quartet comprised of saxophonist Tony Malaby and fellow Malmö bassist Johnny Åman, who collaborated with ...

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Ligro: Dictionary 2

Read "Dictionary 2" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 20, 2013

Moonjune Records has performed a service for progressive-rock and jazz-fusion aficionados by propagating an influx of stellar albums by Indonesian artists and bands that morph Western traditionalism into a distinct sound spectrum. One such ensemble is the power trio Ligro that, in Indonesian lingo, translates to “crazy people." Formed in 2004, its second release, Dictionary 2 ...

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C.O.D.E. (Ken Vandermark, Max Nagl, Clayton Thomas, Wolfang Reisinger): Play the music of Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2013

Ornette (Coleman) ed Eric (Dolphy) si alternano regolarmente nelle otto tracce del disco fino a convivere nella sesta dove, del sassofonista di Forth Worth, viene interpretata “Something Sweet, Something Tender," e del clarinettista e altista losangelino l'altrettanto celebre “The Sphinx". Due mondi musicali così fortemente caratterizzati e difficilmente immaginabili lontani dai loro protagonisti, dalle coordinate non ...

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Luigi Martinale: Arietis Aetas

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2013

Luigi Martinale torna a incidere per la nipponica Albóre records a tre anni di distanza dal precedente lavoro in trio Le sue ali, suonato con Drew Gress e Paolo Franciscone. In questo nuovo episodio il pianista torinese si misura in una prova solitaria, delineando un percorso di undici brani, due dei quali autografi. Arietis Aetas vive ...