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Marcos Pin Factor-E Reset: Barbanza
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitarist and composer Marcos Pin's seventh album, Barbanza, can readily be considered an Iberian project. The musicians are all from Spain, Pin's compositions and arrangements reflect the feelings evoked by his current homeland on the country's Barbanza Peninsula and the album was recorded in Portugal (although it was mixed and mastered in the USA). The ensemble, ...
Michael Wolff & Mike Clark: Wolff & Clark Expedition
by Glenn Astarita
This jazz piano trio date by world-class musicians is all about the groove. Drummer Mike Clark, revered for his slippery jazz-funk beats, hearkening back to this tenure with Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, is touted as one of the most sampled drummers of the digital age. However, he is first and foremost a jazz drummer, as his resume ...
John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension: Now Here This
by Nenad Georgievski
Without a doubt, guitarist John McLaughlin is one of the most adventurous, unique and engaging musicians ever to pick up an electric guitar. The acclaim that has come his way during his long and illustrious history is almost unparalleled, as he has explored every corner of music, from jazz fusion and classical to electronic and world ...
Omar Sosa Afri-Lectric Experience: Eggūn
by AAJ Italy Staff
Eggun è un lavoro decisamente interessante ideato nel 2009, quando la produzione del Barcelona Jazz Festival - nella persona di Joan Cararach - aveva commissionato a Omar Sosa un tributo al capolavoro di Miles Davis Kind of Blue, in occasione del cinquantesimo anniversario della pubblicazione. Il pianista cubano ha pensato di mettere insieme una suite improntata ...
Ezra Weiss and The Rob Scheps Big Band: Our Path to This Moment
by AAJ Italy Staff
La prova orchestrale per un compositore di jazz è una meta ambita, un cimento, ma anche un rischio. Per i motivi più vari, da un certo momento in poi la letteratura per big band è entrata in un periodo di stanca, dal quale sempre più raramente sono emerse composizioni davvero innovative. Le difficoltà di gestione di ...
Exegesis: The Harmony of the Anomaly
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gli Exegesis sono nati nel 2001 con l'idea di portare avanti un progetto complesso che lega il jazz all'elettronica, con la sensibilità della nuova musica e dei nuovi territori. Non ci sono radici particolarmente evidenti nel lavoro di questo trio guidato dal chitarrista Nick Demopoulos. Le composizioni sono tutte originali, divise abbastanza equamente fra il chitarrista ...
Anette von Eichel: Golightly
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un viaggio in treno imminente, la necessità di una buona lettura per non annoiarsi, l'acquisto nella libreria della stazione di “Colazione da Tiffany" di Truman Capote ed ecco servito Golightly. Sì, perché il CD in questione non è altro che il ritratto musicale di Miss Holly Golightly, l'eroina impersonata da Audrey Hepburn che tanto ha ammaliato ...
Mark Winkler: The Laura Nyro Project
by C. Michael Bailey
The combination of a unique and beautifully au courant voice with an equally rare and manifold composing talent makes for compelling listening. When the voice is that of vocalist/songwriter Mark Winkler and the songs are by Laura Nyro, the resulting project reaches criticality rapidly. Winkler has been composing and recording for the better part of 30 ...
Marialy Pacheco: Spaces Within
by Ian Patterson
Spaces Within is Cuban pianist Marialy Pacheco's first trio CD since making Brisbane, Australia her home in 2009, though it's her fourth overall. It follows Songs That I Love (Pinnacle Records, 2011), an impressive solo outing where Pacheco displayed all the strengths that won her the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition award in 2012. As ...
Yuhan Su: Flying Alone
by Hrayr Attarian
Vibraphonist Yuhan Su's debut album Flying Alone is a collection of ten elegant and sophisticated originals that unfold like poems for multiple voices. Her effective yet subtle leadership of her international band allows the instruments to echo and support each other in haunting choruses and contemplative dialogues. The futuristic “Difficulties" builds an intriguing ...
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