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Pat Thomas: Al-Khwarizmi Variations
by John Eyles
Al-Khwarizmi Variations is the most recent addition to a select group of albums--the solo recordings of pianist Pat Thomas. It is Thomas's fourth solo outing in twenty years, and follows Nur (Emanem, 2001) and Plays the Music of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk (FMR, 2008). Both of those are hard to follow, but Al-Khwarizmi Variations is ...
Madeline Eastman + Randy Porter: A Quiet Thing
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Recently one of the sports channels delivered a segment about a deep sea diver who plummets into and ascends from ocean depths unaided by air tanks. He does it all on his own breath. In that documentary, the diver speaks about the peak life experience he encounters with each daredevil dive. The metaphors of adventure, heightened ...
Yuhan Su: Flying Alone
by Ian Patterson
The vibraphone has experienced a resurgence in recent years, with numerous talented musicians drawing the spotlight to the instrument. Taiwanese vibraphonist Yuhan Su is another notable exponent. Su moved to the United States in 2008 and studied at Berklee under vibraphone players Dave Samuels and Ed Saindon and marimba player Nancy Zeltsman. Her debut as leader ...
Thomas Borgmann / Wilber Morris / Reggie Nicholson: Nasty & Sweet
by John Sharpe
From the first few notes, it's apparent that something special is happening on Nasty & Sweet. Perhaps it's the way bassist Wilber Morris and drummer Reggie Nicholson sound so assured in their placement of the merest splashes of color. Completely unafraid to take their time, creating a powerful tension which isn't released even when German reedman ...
Arthur Campbell: Carl Philipp Stamitz: Quartets for Clarinet
by C. Michael Bailey
Beneath the veneer of the “great composers"--Bach, Mozart and Beethoven--lay a wealth of talent that was composed at the same time, often competing with what history has deemed its betters. It would be easy to consign the clarinet music of the latter half of the Eighteenth Century to Mozart, whose “Clarinet Concerto in Am, K622" and ...
Al Thompson,Jr.: City Mainstream
by Edward Blanco
Known for favoring bebop as well as jazz standards from the Great American Song Book, Bridgeport, Connecticut-based jazz pianist/composer Al Thompson Jr. delivers his first album as leader presenting a set of nine original straight ahead compositions recorded with a combination of groups from a quintet to a light ensemble--all nicely packaged on City Mainstream. Don't ...
Max Johnson Quartet: Max Johnson Quartet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il disco si presenta nella solida confezione cartonata che caratterizza le uscite Not Two, etichetta polacca fondata nel 1998 da Marek Winiarski dal catalogo sempre più interessante. Ma la vera goduria per gli occhi è la rappresentazione in vivido stile flower- power degli strumenti presenti nell'incisione, veri capolavori grafico/pittorici dai colori sgargianti che sembrano rendere palpabili ...
Urumchi: Nar(r)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il gruppo Urumchi è stato fondato dalla cantante turca Saadet Turkoz che risiedere da tempo a Zurigo. La sua famiglia di origine, di etnica kazaka, si era trasferita in Turchia dal nativo Turkestan Orientale conteso dai cinesi e dai turchi. Saadet Turkoz è una fiera cantante dotata di grande forza espressiva che si muove fra l'avanguardia ...
New Project Jazz Orchestra: Walkin' with Jeru
by AAJ Italy Staff
A metà degli anni settanta, fra dischi di cantautori, progressive rock e west coast, quando si parlava di jazz, tutti o quasi conoscevano Gerry Mulligan. Sarà stato per la sua lunga permanenza a Milano o per il suo stile “cool," ma il suo nome se lo ricordavano tutti. È stato un grande piacere scoprire che il ...
Freddie Bryant and Kaleidoscope: Live Grooves… Epic Tales
by AAJ Italy Staff
Freddie Bryant ama miscelare diversi idiomi musicali. Il suo è un approccio chitarristico nel quale si denotano influenze di differente natura: retrogusto indiano, forme che rimandano in mente i maestri del jazz, tagli dal sapore vagamente latin. Insomma, una derivazione multifunzionale, che nell'ambito del suo trio Kaleidoscope, completato da Patrice Blanchard al basso elettrico e Willard ...
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