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Roscoe Mitchell & Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Three Compositions

Read "Three Compositions" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 25, 2013

Registrato dal vivo durante l'edizione 2009 di Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz, il festival di Sant'Anna Arresi, Three Compositions è la testimonianza assai riuscita di come le doti di compositore del veterano sassofonista Roscoe Mitchell (qui impegnato solamente nella conduction) abbiano trovato un perfetto fil-rouge interpretativo nel Black Earth Ensemble di un'altra rappresentante doc della ...

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Ferenc Nemeth: Triumph

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by AAJ Italy Staff
February 25, 2013

Anche se è attivo da oltre un decennio ai massimi livelli, il leader di questo splendido quartetto - il batterista ungherese Ferenc Nemeth - è ancora poco noto in Italia e necessita di una breve presentazione. Nato in Ungheria, dopo aver frequentato il conservatorio di Györ e la Franz Listz Academy of Music, s'è trasferito negli ...

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Kait Dunton: Mountain Suite

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by Dan Bilawsky
February 24, 2013

The seeds for this project were planted when pianist/composer Kait Dunton jotted down a few measures of music while sojourning in the Canadian Rockies, but this passionate music actually sprung to life inside a recording studio in Pasadena, California. Dunton, a Los Angeles-based artist pursuing a doctorate at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of ...

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Johannesson, Schultz and Berglund, featuring Jacob Karlzon: Cause And Effect

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by Chris Mosey
February 24, 2013

Events from a momentous three-year musical period greatly influenced this album: in 1967 the death of John Coltrane; the release, two years later, of In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) by his former boss, trumpeter Miles Davis; and the demise of rock icon Jimi Hendrix in 1970. The line-up is Max Schultz, one ...

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Grateful Dead: Dave's Pick's Volume 5: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 11/17/1973

Read "Dave's Pick's Volume 5: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 11/17/1973" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 24, 2013

Each successive Grateful Dead archive release illuminates a new perspective on the history of a band whose career may be the most colorful in the history of rock and roll. Dave's Picks Volume 5 catches the iconic group on the cusp of two crucial junctures in one of the most prolific stages of its time together.

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Marbin: Last Chapter of Dreaming

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by Sammy Stein
February 24, 2013

Marbin--Israeli saxophonist Danny Markovitch and Israeli-American guitarist Dani Rabin--began as a duo in 2007, but now regularly plays with percussionist Justyn Lawrence and bassist Jae Gentile.Last Chapter of Dreaming is the group's fourth album if its first is considered to be Paul Wertico's Impressions of a City (Chicago Sessions, 2009), where the duo was ...

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Jon Lundbom's Big Five Chord: No New Tunes

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by Dave Wayne
February 23, 2013

Certainly not straight-ahead jazz, decidedly not fusion, and not really free-jazz either, guitarist/composer Jon Lundbom and his Big Five Chord have taken a decidedly idiosyncratic path that simultaneously eschews and embraces all of these sub-genres, while largely rejecting their collective stylistic baggage. This judiciously iconoclastic individualism is what one can expect from Lundbom, a musician whose ...

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Steve Slagle: Evensong

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by Dan Bilawsky
February 23, 2013

Saxophonist Steve Slagle is a consummate leader often pegged as a sideman; with a résumé that includes stints with big band legends like Woody Herman and Lionel Hampton, left-of-center trailblazers like pianist Carla Bley, Latin giants like Ray Barretto and modern day marvels like tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, it's easy to see why some people may ...

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Kathryn Farmer: Moondance

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by C. Michael Bailey
February 23, 2013

Vocalist Kathryn Farmer brings a very contemporary vision to her jazz singing, one equally informed from the popular and R&B idioms. Her debut, Moondance, offers a spectrum of music treated to her uniquely informed interpretations. Farmer fearlessly re-harmonizes songs for her own visionary purposes, rendering compelling, if not provocative, performances. Strict constructionists who ...

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Hardcoretet: Do It Live

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by Dan Bilawsky
February 23, 2013

The opening minute of Do It Live seems like a bait-and-switch scenario; with a band name like Hardcoretet, wit and power would seem to be requisite ingredients in the group's work, but only sunshine and rainbows appear at first. Fortunately, these sounds are merely a gateway into the music of this Seattle-based foursome. As this opening ...