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Benedikt Jahnel Trio: Equilibrium

Read "Equilibrium" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Un tedesco, uno spagnolo e un canadese compongono questo bel trio, che si muove su terreni magari già ampiamente sondati, ma lo fa con estremo buon gusto e assoluta padronanza della materia. La rotta di navigazione è in effetti quella classica (da una trentina d'anni in qua, almeno), un procedere - ed espandersi, e lievitare - ...

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Gratkowski - Brown - Winant + Gerhard E. Winkler: Vermilion Traces / Donaueschingen 2009

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by AAJ Italy Staff

L'improvvisazione radicale, che per coloro che accettano le etichette può costituire un genere a sé stante, dà diritto di cittadinanza ad espressioni molto diverse fra loro, prescindendo dal loro spessore artistico e dalla diversa gradazione jazzistica, che può essere elevata o del tutto assente. Situazioni sfibrate e diafane si accostano ad altre di coriacea aggressività, l'astrazione ...

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Mur: Jager

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Ramon Landolt si districa tra pianoforte, Fender Rhodes e Moog con uguale leggerezza, con levità di tocco, con semplicità armonica e cura timbrica attraverso un approccio lontano dalla tradizione del piano trio ma anche pericolosamente vicino ad un compiacente deriva ambient-minimalista. Martina Berther si occupa del basso elettrico con uguale misura, quasi in punta di piedi, ...

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-isq: -isq

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by Bruce Lindsay

Type -isq into Google and the legend “Your search-- -isq --did not match any documents" appears. Add quotation marks and try again: this time around 6.5 million results appear and in among the links to Information Standards Quarterly and Integrated Systems Queensland up pops the website for London-based quartet -isq. This eponymous debut from the band, ...

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Aaron Diehl: The Bespoke Man's Narrative

Read "The Bespoke Man's Narrative" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

The reference to some exquisitely dressed man in the title of this release also conveys the stylistic bent of pianist Aaron Diehl's noteworthy debut on Mack Avenue. He is among a list of rising jazz pianists which include Gerald Clayton and Aaron Parks. The recording brings to life a project that was conceived in Indianapolis after ...

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Jason Kao Hwang: Burning Bridge

Read "Burning Bridge" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

In recent years, avant-garde music has had no more an effective champion than composer/violinist Jason Kao Hwang. With his longstanding quartet EDGE and three additional players, Burning Bridge extends and broadens Hwang's forward-thinking approach to composition and style. Where his brilliant collection, Crossroads Unseen (Euonymus Records, 2011), referenced subdued Asian-influences, Burning Bridge features a somewhat more ...

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Jackie Ryan: Listen Here

Read "Listen Here" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

There exists an intersection point in a vocal recording where four elements coalesce in excellence to produce a superb recording: the vocal, instrumental, material and sonic. Singer Jackie Ryan's Listen Here exists on this very point. AAJ critic Dan Bilawsky addressed the first two elements in his thoughtful review of Listen Here, calling Ryan, “a force ...

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Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project

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by AAJ Italy Staff

La lunga tournée mondiale conseguente alla pubblicazione del CD Orchestrion (oltre 100 concerti, comprese alcune tappe in Italia - clicca qui per leggere la recensione del concerto di Roma) che lo ha tenuto impegnato per la maggior parte del 2010 è stata per il chitarrista Pat Metheny un evento unico e irripetibile. La sfida (perchè essenzialmente ...

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Interstatic: Interstatic

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Di fronte ad un trio chitarra elettrica, organo Hammond e batteria non si può non pensare al Tony Williams Lifetime che, tra il 1969 e 1970, cambiò la faccia del jazz-rock. Eppure, in questo caso i punti di contatto con quella torrenziale ed imprescindibile esperienza non sono così accentuati. Semmai gli Interstatic ricordano piuttosto il trio ...

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Pierluigi Balducci: Blue from Heaven

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Le ance liquide, sinuose, oniriche di Paul McCandless segnano da subito questo nuovo lavoro del bassista pugliese. Che stavolta si attornia di musicisti di primissima grandezza per illustrare la sua musica (in realtà il CD include anche un tema di Brad Mehldau, “Unrequited," e uno di Charlie Haden, “Our Spanish Love Song"), che proprio nei caratteri ...


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