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Dikeman/Kugel/van der Weide: Across the Sky

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2013

Nato in Nebraska, cresciuto nello Wyoming il sassofonista John Dikeman ha frequentato brevemente la scena newyorkese prima di trasferirsi per tre anni al Cairo e stabilirsi dal 2007 ad Amsterdam. Nella Venezia del Nord Dikeman si è inserito con naturalezza e disinvoltura all'interno della variegata scena improvvisativa, divenendone in breve tempo una delle figure più attive ...

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Stefano Battaglia Trio: Songways

Read "Songways" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2013

Formula insidiosa e affascinante come probabilmente nessun'altra, il piano trio ha senza alcun dubbio, sulla mappa del jazz contemporaneo, nel nucleo raccolto attorno a Stefano Battaglia una delle sue massime espressioni (non solo a livello nazionale, ovviamente). Questo splendido album, inciso nell'aprile 2012 e freschissimo di stampa, arriva giusto giusto a confermarcelo (e ricordarcelo). La magica ...

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Alessandro Bosetti - Chris Abrahams: We Who Had Left

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2013

Si incontrano su un terreno innervato da straordinarie tensioni espressive Alessandro Bosetti e Chris Abrahams. Sperimentatore elettronico tra i più originali in circolazione il primo, pianista e improvvisatore dei mitici The Necks il secondo. Ironicamente nelle note di accompagnamento al progetto, evocano la pomposità del recital pianistico e del divismo vocale lirico, un mondo che sembra ...

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The Group: Live

by John Sharpe
March 3, 2013

What quirk of fate governs whether or not a band captures the public imagination? A star-studded lineup? A strong set of tunes? Or just the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time? For The Group--a stellar mid-'80s aggregation of New York City avant talent--all these preconditions seemed to be in place, ...

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Thiefs: Thiefs

Read "Thiefs" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 3, 2013

What might seem like a grammatical gaffe in the self-titled debut of Thiefs is not an oversight. What's more striking is the music from the forward-thinking trio of Guillermo E Brown, bassist Keith Witty, and saxophonist Christophe Panzani; a group whose combined resumes include work with Carla Bley Big Band, French hip-hop outfit Hocus Pocus, Vijay ...

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Ernest Dawkins: Afro Straight

Read "Afro Straight" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
March 3, 2013

Ernest Dawkins is a multifaceted giant of the saxophone. He was part of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a groove into which he perfectly fit, blowing fresh winds of change into the comfort zone of improvisation. The sum of his parts included commissioned works for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium and the ...

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Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits

Read "Greatest Hits" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser

by Harry S. Pariser
March 3, 2013

"Greatest Hits" compilations are not releases normally associated with jazz musicians, and especially not with pianist as decidedly avant-garde as Matthew Shipp.Shipp explains that “My impetus for creating this CD was that I have a vast catalogue which I don't think the jazz world has started to absorb yet. I selected the tunes by ...

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The Dave Lalama Big Band: The Hofstra Project

Read "The Hofstra Project" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 2, 2013

Pianist Dave Lalama is living proof that the divide between real-world practitioner and first-class educator is often imaginary. Lalama's résumé includes time spent with super singers like Eddie Jefferson and Anita O'Day, and big band icons like Road Father Woody Herman and super drummer Buddy Rich, but these performance credits don't tell the whole story about ...

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Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Michael Collins: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Read "Works for Clarinet and Orchestra" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 2, 2013

English clarinetist Michael Collins is no stranger to Mozart's lone clarinet concerto, having provided Gramophone Magazine its critical selection of the same for several years in Clarinet Concertos: Mozart--Beethoven (Deutsche Grammophon, 2000), with Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra (since unseated by equally fine performance on the 2010 Hyperion release from Thea King and the ...

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Randy Simon Jazz Project: Nyhavn Live

Read "Nyhavn Live" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 2, 2013

As instrumentalists and established groups explore new musical vistas, there's somewhat of a “safe harbor" in the richness of classic hard bop. Perhaps that's because the repertoire and stylistic formats of drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, pianist Horace Silver and the like offer performers significant latitude in terms of groove, melodic and harmonic diversity, ...