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Luis Muñoz: Luz

by Jerry D'Souza
March 2, 2013

Luis Muñoz gathers strength with each of his recordings as he goes past the post of the previous one, making new ideas and developments his haunt. Luz, as the title would suggest, injects new light into his music. Muñoz conceives and marvelous executes his game plan. Driving the rhythm and the beat from ...

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Jukkis Uotila / Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Jukkis Uotila

Read "The Music of Jukkis Uotila" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
March 1, 2013

The Music of Jukkis Uotila presents an exciting array of modern big band arrangements performed by The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra (SJO), with compositions provided by SJO's drummer and occasional pianist, Jukkis Uotila. For over twenty-five years, the SJO has been at the forefront of big band music, proving that it's possible to explore innovation while remaining ...

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Eyot: Drifters

Read "Drifters" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 1, 2013

It's every serious group's desire to craft an identifiable, and as far as possible, a unique sound whereby just a few notes leave little doubt about who's playing. Serbian quartet Eyot achieved that with its splendid debut, Horizon (Ninety and Nine Records,2011), where minimalism and power went hand-in-hand in an intoxicating mix of jazz, art-rock, classical ...

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Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 1, 2013

Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by trombonist Curtis Hasselbring and his band, the wonderfully named New Mellow Edwards, that takes its inspiration from these mysterious transmitters.The tune titles are rather enigmatic, but ...

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Shamie Royston: Portraits

Read "Portraits" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 1, 2013

Pianist Shamie Royston shares more than familial bonds with her husband/drummer Rudy Royston and employer/sister/saxophonist Tia Fuller; she clearly shares their oft-demonstrated belief that music is about expressing oneself by placing your own personality and experiences into and onto your art. In truth, every artist worth their salt, knowingly or not, adheres to this philosophy in ...

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Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Lower East Side

Read "Lower East Side" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 1, 2013

In this day and age, when shock-and-awe maneuvers and new-thing sounds tend to get all the plaudits and press in jazz, it says a lot when a throwback duo date is widely admired by critics and fans alike. Such was the case with pianist Ehud Asherie's Upper West Side (Posi-Tone, 2012), which brought him into contact ...

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Stephan Mathieu: Un Coeur Simple

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2013

Difficile capiti ultimamente che si abbia il tempo e la possibilità di ascoltare un disco un po' “come si deve" [o dovrebbe]. Vale a dire su un impianto degno di questo nome, tramite un formato qualitativamente idoneo, avendo avuto cura di spegnere il telefono e dedicandosi esclusivamente all'attività di ascolto. Mica facile, eh? Ma se dovesse ...

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Andrea Manzoni Trio: Quantum Discord

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2013

Quantun Discord è l'album d'esordio del pianista Andrea Manzoni, cha a capo del trio completato da Luca Curcio al contrabbasso e Ruben Bellavia alla batteria propone un percorso di brani espressive e formalmente molto ben eseguiti. Si tratta di passaggi nei quali la melodia - spesso lineare e priva di situazioni scomode - è al centro ...

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Chimaira: Smoke & Mirrors

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2013

L'estrema vivacità della scena impro svizzera ha una realtà discografica relativamente nuova e ad essa principalmente dedicata, ovvero la Wide Ear Records, etichetta che con Smoke & Mirrors giunge alla sua sesta pubblicazione. Chimeira, il nome del giovane quartetto capitanato dal batterista Alex Huber - studi con Lucas Niggli e Pierre Favre e collaborazioni eccellenti alle ...

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Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: Strong Place

Read "Strong Place" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 28, 2013

With Strong Place, New York-based German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock moves one step further in cementing her place at the heart of the Big Apple's fertile Brooklyn scene. Already on a roll with her plangent contributions to a series of stunning music including Sleepthief's Madness of Crowds (Intakt, 2011), drummer Tom Rainey's Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt, 2012), ...