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Gianni Salinetti: Shifting Point

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Shifting Point è il primo album di questa formazione, attiva dal 2010, capitanata dal chitarrista Gianni Salinetti, il quale firma tutti gli originali in programma, tranne il brano “Chiaranotte" scritto dal pianista Manuel Magrini. Questo disco è ispirato all'omonimo saggio del regista teatrale Peter Brook, nel quale viene descritto il cambio di prospettiva che porta a ...

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LABOttega: Emola

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by AAJ Italy Staff

LABOttega è un gruppo composto da una decina di musicisti riunitosi attorno a Claudio Pontiggia, già membro della Vienna Art Orchestra, ora appassionato didatta ed arrangiatore: dai corsi d'improvvisazione che tiene da anni a Lugano è scaturita questa formazione, nutrita ed eterogenea. Emola è il suo secondo disco, pubblicato dall'etichetta svizzera Brambus. Da quando è stato ...

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Tony Renold Quartet: Places

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by AAJ Italy Staff

La musica del quartetto del batterista Tony Renold vuole essere dichiaratamente descrittiva dei luoghi, dei colori e dei paesaggi alla maniera di Cezanne, prendendo come modello di riferimento la semplice bellezza dei laghi (immaginiamo in particolare quelli svizzeri immersi nei paesaggi alpini) che vengono visti, citando Thoreau, come 'occhi della terra nei quali chi guarda ha ...

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Kahil El'Zabar Quartet: What It Is!

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by Troy Collins

Since the early 1980s percussionist Kahil El'Zabar has led numerous dates as a leader, with much of his work issued by Chicago's Delmark Records. Some of his most impressive efforts for the label have featured collaborations with renowned artists, including New Thing-era luminaries such as Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp, as well as ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

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by Dan Bilawsky

Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo is a bit of a musical mixologist. Throughout his four-plus decades in the music world, he's often found his way and made his mark by merging jazz language with the sonic sensibilities of his native Brazil; now, this very idea serves as a thematic umbrella that hangs over Finas Misturas. ...

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Laila Salins: Elevator Into The Sky

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by C. Michael Bailey

On Smash, pianist/composer Patricia Barber wrote songs quite reminiscent of the late American poet Anne Sexton's (1928-1974) poetry: abstract and almost, but not quite, inaccessible. On Elevator Into The Sky, Latvian-American singer/composer Laila Salins adapts poems by Sexton for her lyric book, backing them with a competent and far-reaching band. This project is as ambitious as ...

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The Dave Lalama Big Band: The Hofstra Project

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by Edward Blanco

As an academic, pianist Dave Lalama's resume includes being a founding faculty member of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music Jazz Program, as well as a current professor at Hofstra University where hundreds of students, colleagues and musicians have all been a part of his distinguished professional life. As a musician, his background includes performances with ...

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Fire! Orchestra: Exit!

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by John Kelman

Sometimes it's best not to predict. If the idea of expanding Fire!'s core trio of saxophonist/electric pianist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werlin into Fire! Orchestra's massive, 28-piece behemoth was based on the trio's extant discography-- You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (Rune Grammofon, 2009), Unreleased (Rune Grammofon, 2011), and In the Mouth ...

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Daniel Ori: Emuna

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Daniel Ori è alla sua seconda prova da leader. Passato dall'etichetta Art of Life alla Bluejazz e con una formazione (in cui spicca la stella Mark Turner) rinnovata per intero rispetto al disco precedente, il contrabbassista israeliano di stanza a New York ha registrato questo Emuna, un lavoro maturo e stilisticamente coeso. Le nove tracce che ...

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Bonnot - Tracanna - Cecchetto: Drops

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Che sorpresa! Due tra i più apprezzati jazzisti italiani, Tino Tracanna e Roberto Cecchetto, incontrano un mago dell'elettronica e dell'hip hop, Bonnot al secolo Walter Buonanno, e scatta la scintilla. Drops, questo è il titolo del disco in questione, è un gioiellino di contaminazione creativa, nel quale sonorità acustiche, scariche elettriche, diavolerie elettroniche, archi, voci, rap, ...


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