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Ninni Morgia - Marcello Magliocchi: Season Two

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2013

Il chitarrista siciliano Ninni Morgia e il batterista/percussionista pugliese Marcello Magliocchi ci offrono queste otto escursioni in territorio noise che si ciba di scorie jazzistiche per elaborare costruzioni tridimensionali che occupano il tempo e lo spazio in maniera avvolgente e pervasiva. Un approccio radicale alla musica di derivazione industriale che dà buoni frutti, senza lesinare nulla ...

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Mats Eilertsen Trio: Sails Set

Read "Sails Set" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 18, 2013

Sophomore recordings can be a challenge, especially if the debut is a winner. Slowly but surely, Mats Eilertsen has been building up his own discography as a leader, and starting to rival the Norwegian bassist's larger group of recordings as a sideman/guest. SkyDive (Hubro, 2012) expanded on Radio Yonder (Hubro, 2009) by turning an already superb ...

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Eli Yamin and Evan Christopher: Louie's Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes

Read "Louie's Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 18, 2013

Hero worship has long been a magnetic force that helps to draw in the next generation of musicians, yet this very concept is often pooh-poohed by a segment of the musical and artistic community. These people feel that new is always better, and that originality can't thrive if artists acknowledge their forefathers and wear their influences ...

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Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
March 18, 2013

This CD is the culmination of Nilson Matta's lifelong dream: to record his interpretation of the Orpheus music from the Brazilian play and movie of the 1950s. To make it happen, Matta enlisted fifteen superb players from Brazil and the United States, building his ensemble up from the rhythmic, native heart of the music. The result ...

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Corey Mwamba / Dave Kane / Joshua Blackmore: Don't Overthink It

Read "Don't Overthink It" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 18, 2013

There's a simple message on the inner sleeve of Don't Overthink It, the first full-length studio recording from vibraphonist Corey Mwamba . bassist Dave Kane and drummer Joshua Blackmore. There's a simple manifesto in its title and some complex improvised music on the album, but enjoying it is a simple matter. The three UK-based musicians are ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas (Fine Mixtures)

Read "Finas Misturas (Fine Mixtures)" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 18, 2013

Brazilian pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo has been making important contributions to the Brazilian-Caribbean musical discography for 40-plus years. His most recent recordings--Chora Baiao (Self Produced, 2011), with Adolfo as leader, and La e Ca (AAM Music, 2010), made with daughter, vocalist Carol Saboya--display the results of a careful evolution of jazz through Caribbean and South American music, ...

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Yugen: Mirrors

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 18, 2013

Non deve essere stato per niente facile per Francesco Zago e compagni eseguire dal vivo, e precisamente al Rio Fest 2011 di Carmaux in Francia, le ardite e tecnicamente impegnative partiture del loro repertorio. Stiamo parlando degli Yugen, l'ensemble che oggi meglio incarna lo stile radicale e profondamente europeo di Rock in Opposition, movimento culturale fondato ...

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Ensemble 5: Solstice

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 18, 2013

Ensemble 5 nasce da un jam session avvenuta a Zurigo nel 2010 come incrocio di differenti percorsi musicali con origine nel lontano 1992 dal Collective 4tet, formazione profondamente ancorata alla tradizione del free jazz e della libera improvvisazione tout- court che il batterista svizzero Heinz Geisser mise in piedi durante un lungo soggiorno a New York. ...

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Roberto Magris Space Trek: Aliens in a Bebop Planet

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 18, 2013

Nel doppio CD Aliens in a Bebop Planet Roberto Magris si lascia ampiamente apprezzare sia per la qualità della scrittura (sono previsti quasi esclusivamente brani originali) che per l'ottima duttilità interpretativa, capace di condurre l'ascoltatore attraverso diverse stanze sonore, arredate con gusto ed equilibrio. In apertura del primo disco troviamo Magris in un piano solo dai ...

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Marius Neset: Birds

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 18, 2013

BOOM! Se tutti gli album si aprissero con un brano come questo “Birds" sarebbe ogni giorno primavera! Ricomponendoci per quanto possibile, scriviamo oggi per festeggiare lo splendido nuovo lavoro del sassofonista norvegese Marius Neset, già descritto da più fonti come il miglior talento sassofonistico norvegese dopo Jan Garbarek e - comunque - dagli anni Sessanta a ...