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Anthony Branker & Word Play: Uppity
by Dan McClenaghan
On Uppity, Dr. Anthony Branker, Director of Jazz Studies at Princeton University, has created a life-affirming, sometimes funky, and straight-through beautiful set of sounds--an ode to the resiliency and basic goodness of the human spirit.Branker began his jazz journey as a trumpeter, but complications from a brain aneurysm in 1999 brought his trumpet playing ...
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / Jo Ann Falletta: Duke Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige
by C. Michael Bailey
Naxos Records' American Classics imprint was intended to highlight the domestic classical repertoire. This includes reaching from John Philip Sousa wind works and John Adams operas to Charles Ives songs and Leonard Bernstein Broadway shows. Jazz made a claim with the imprint, and the America Classics eventually included recordings of Scott Joplin rags, Art Tatum piano ...
Positive Catastrophe: Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo...
by AAJ Italy Staff
La componente latineggiante di tanta nuova musica newyorkese sembra essere una delle possibili chiavi di lettura di questo ottimo CD, suonato da una superformazione che, da Taylor Ho Binum a Michael Attias passando per Matt Bauder, comprende alcuni tra i nomi migliori della più stretta attualità jazzistica. Come nel precedente CD Garabatos Volume One (Cuneiform 2009), ...
Orchestre Franck Tortiller: Janis the Pearl
by AAJ Italy Staff
La figura di Janis Joplin - aspra, ma capace di sublimi attimi di pura dolcezza - ha colpito da sempre la fantasia degli appassionati di rock e di blues in contrapposizione coi fedelissimi delle cantanti tradizionali del jazz a cominciare da quella Bessie Smith che certamente è stata il modello principale per la cantante esplosa al ...
Giorgio Distante: R.A.V.
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un suono naturale di tromba, intimo, quasi pudico, ed una cascata di suoni sintetici, grappoli inquietanti di bit e di sfregolii che inquinano la purezza del silenzio e l'incanto della melodia. È l'inizio di R.A.V. ma è soprattutto la sintesi estrema della proposta di Giorgio Distante. Quella di creare un interfaccia tra acustico ed elettronico, non ...
Electric Barbarian: Barb Wire
by AAJ Italy Staff
La tessitura sonora messa insieme dagli Electric Barbarian cerca di unire, anche se non sempre con risultato avvincente e originale, l'approccio moderno del turntablism e degli inserti elettronici, suonati da DJ Grazzhoppa e DJ Lamont, con le ambientazioni sinistre della sezione archi e le melodie prodotte dalla tromba di Bart Maris. Un agglomerato di suoni e ...
Frank Wright: Blues For Albert Ayler
by John Sharpe
Reedman Frank Wright's eponymous first album surfaced on ESP-Disk in 1965, so it is fitting that this historic live recording also appears on the newly-revived imprint, making good its mission of releasing unheard sessions by label stalwarts, alongside newer works. Though dedicated to his erstwhile employer, saxophonist Albert Ayler, Wright's tenor saxophone also hints at the ...
Eric Hofbauer: American Grace
by Mark Corroto
Origami or balloon animals, it is always interesting what a solo artist can do with his bare hands. Same for a gifted guitarist like Eric Hofbauer, whose American Grace completes a trilogy of solo recordings that began with American Vanity (Creative Nation, 2004), and was followed by American Fear! (Creative Nation, 2010). In these three outing, ...
The Kandinsky Effect: Synesthesia
by Bruce Lindsay
A band whose members hail from the USA and France, a band name taken from that of a Russian painter, a recording studio in Iceland and tune titles that reference an English town ("Brighton"), a Mexican souvenir retailer ("Mexican Gift Shop") and a Danish film director ("Lars Von Trier"). They all give the Kandinsky Effect's second ...
Remi Alvarez/Joe Fonda/Harvey Sorgen: Trio 3D
by Jerry D'Souza
When drummer Harvey Sorgen met saxophonist Remi Álvarez at the International Musicians Meeting in Monterey, Mexico, he was “taken by his sound, feel and humanity." This is not surprising. Álvarez has cut a wide swath both on record and in live performances as an adventurer who is not afraid to take risks without losing focus. Sorgen, ...
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