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Micah Gaugh Trio: The Blue Fairy Mermaid Princess

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2013

Personaggio stranissimo Micah Gaugh. L'ho conosciuto personalmente una decina di anni fa, a cena con Arto Lindsay dopo un concerto: non si era tolto nemmeno a tavola un vistoso pellicciotto e non è che il suo contributo al live fosse stato memorabile. Eppure ha una fama di artista di culto, poliedrico e trasversale. Sassofonista, cantante, scrittore, ...

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Kevin Eubanks: The Messenger

Read "The Messenger" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2013

Lo Stream of consciousness è una tecnica letteraria utilizzata all'inizio del Novecento che consiste nel rappresentare la realtà e la mente seguendo un flusso interiore, nel quale immagini intime si sovrappongono e si fondono a modelli ideali. Come per tutte le forme d'arte, anche per la musica, spesso, si ricorre al flusso di coscienza: ci si ...

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Reut Regev's R*Time: Exploring the Vibe

Read "Exploring the Vibe" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 19, 2013

Exploring the Vibe is the dynamic follow-up to This is R Time (Ropeadope, 2009), the critically acclaimed debut of R*Time, a mutable ensemble led by Israeli-born trombonist Reut Regev. A versatile instrumentalist, Regev has been involved in a number of eclectic projects since moving to New York City in 1998, including musical experiments in Radical Jewish ...

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Iva Bittova: Iva Bittova

Read "Iva Bittova" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 19, 2013

In its four-plus decade career, ECM Records has done more to blur, stretch and dissolve musical boundaries than any other label on the planet. With the world becoming a smaller place it's also become a fertile breeding ground for cross-cultural, cross-genre cross-pollination, with ECM on the vanguard of the inevitable consequences, having released countless examples of ...

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Sidsel Endersen - Stian Westerhus: Didymoi dreams

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2013

Lo sguardo della Norvegia non è freddo come potremmo immaginare. Dai fiordi frastagliati da mille increspature, ecco la musica disarmante dell'insolito duo norvegese Sidsel Endresen e Stian Westerhus. Lei, vocalist di grande talento, con oltre trent'anni di carriera alle spalle e un vasto numero di interessanti collaborazioni (ricordiamo, ad esempio, l'attività nel Jon Eberson Group e ...

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Cais Sodré Funk Connection: You Are Somebody

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2013

Gli amanti del soul anni sessanta, riscoperto in questi anni da cantanti e formazioni sia bianche che nere (dagli americani Dap-Kings di Sharon Jones ai finlandesi Soul Investigators di Nicole Willis e quant'altro) saranno interessati all'esordio discografico di un nuovo gruppo, stavolta portoghese. La formazione prende il nome da una stazione ferroviaria di Lisbona dove, in ...

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Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2

Read "The Magic of 2" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 19, 2013

One of San Francisco's most famous jazz venues, Keystone Korner, closed in 1983. It was a favorite venue of the top jazz players of the day, and several landmark live albums by pianists Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and saxophonists Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Stan Getz, resulted from shows taped inside its hallowed hall.The ...

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Anders Nilsson / Joe Fonda / Peter Nilsson: Powers

Read "Powers" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 19, 2013

This collective trio teams American bass master Joe Fonda, known for his collaborations with innovative musicians and composers such as saxophonist Anthony Braxton, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist Carla Bley, with Swedish brothers a generation younger than Fonda-- guitarist Anders Nilsson, based in New York since 2000, and drummer Peter Nilsson, based in Malmö, Sweden. ...

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Bebo Best Baldan & The Italian Jazz Art: The Oslo Sessions

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2013

In questo lavoro troviamo Bebo Baldan impegnato alle percussioni, lui che - produttore e multistrumentista - solitamente si muove nell'ambito della musica etnica e che sa intraprendere vie espressive che lambiscono, o tagliano in maniera trasversale, sia territori jazzy che avanguardistici. Miles Davis ha segnato l'ispirazione di genarazioni di musicisti, comprese le idee compositive e improvvisative ...

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Brian Groder & Tonino Miano: FluiDensity

Read "FluiDensity" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 19, 2013

Listening to the stimulating FluiDensity is akin to eavesdropping on an intelligent, ad-lib conversation between two friends. Trumpeter Brian Groder and pianist Tonino Miano, both master improvisers, mine the modernist western musical canon for the majority of their ideas and spice it up with a bit of jazz and various ethnic motifs.The energetic “Optika," ...