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Korla Trio: Because of Him
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per mettere a fuoco l'idea musicale del Korla Trio bisogna fare cenno a Korla Pandit, un musicista dai lineamenti indiani che venne considerato negli anni Cinquanta, negli Stati Uniti, il padrino dell'exotica, ma che in realtà si chiamava John Roland Reed e di così geograficamente esotico non aveva quasi niente. Ecco dunque la perfetta dualità, la ...
Ivo Perelman - Matthew Shipp - Gerald Cleaver: The Foreign Legion
by AAJ Italy Staff
All'origine vi è l'ultimo quartetto regolare di Ivo Perelman - sassofonista, compositore, pittore e artista visuale brasiliano dalla discografia sconfinata e dalle collaborazioni eccellenti - composto da Joe Morris, Gerald Cleaver e Matthew Shipp. Da qui nasce l'idea di Perelman di esplorare la forma-trio cambiandone di volta in volta la combinazione degli elementi originari. In Family ...
Jenny Scheinman: Mischief & Mayhem
by AAJ Italy Staff
Della sorprendente esibizione al Jazz Festival 2012 di Saalfelden, che aveva rivelato una band dalla fisicità debordante e contagiosa, abbiamo già riferito. Quella che abbiamo tra le mani è una registrazione effettuata il sei marzo del 2012 che rivela l'anima gentile, riflessiva, oseremmo dire candida, del quartetto in questione. Certo, riferiti ad un chitarrista spesso estremo ...
Ivo Perelman - Matthew Shipp - Whit Dickey: The Clairvoyant
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da anni Ivo Perelman e Matthew Shipp incrociano le loro straordinarie personalità di improvvisatori: su disco lo hanno fatto all'inizio in modo sporadico, ma significativo, come nel caso di Bendito of Santa Cruz e di Brazilian Watercolors, in duo, e di Cama de Terra, in trio con William Parker, registrati nel 1996. Negli ultimi tempi la ...
Ellen Robinson: Don't Wait Too Long
by C. Michael Bailey
Bay-Area vocalist Ellen Robinson is a study in jazz grace and elegance. Rather than a bright and shiny repertoire of specialized training (of which there is nothing wrong), Robinson sports a music education degree from Manhattanville college with a major in piano, and rides an experiential arc in to the heart of the Great American Songbook. ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Three Compositions
by John Sharpe
On Three Compositions, veteran Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's scores are interpreted by an established grouping with an AACM lineage, namesake flautist Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble, unlike his previous album of written material, Numbers (Rogue Art, 2011), which featured a varied cast of contemporary players. It makes all the difference. This performance was one of three ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock
by Glenn Astarita
Strangely enough, bandleader and bassist Moppa Elliot derived inspiration for his compositions on Slippery Rock from smooth jazz albums of the late 1970s and '80s. However, it's more like smooth jazz under siege; with resonating rhythms, scorching and wily horns choruses, the program offers subliminal detections of commercial jazz fare as the band often breaks into ...
Luis Muñoz: Luz
by Mark Corroto
Lessons in light--or, in Spanish, luz--lush arrangements need not be dense, as proven in Costa Rican-born Californian Luis Muñoz's compositions, orchestrations and arrangements on Luz, his sixth release for the Pelin label following the widely acclaimed Invisible (Pelin, 2010) and Of Soul And Shadow (Pelin, 2008).While his roots go back to Central America, this ...
Dave Hamblett: Light At Night
by Bruce Lindsay
Anyone wishing to explore the wealth of talent to be found among the UK jazz scene's up-and-coming musicians can cheerfully begin here. Light At Night, the debut from drummer Dave Hamblett, features six of the finest of these young players. The album is impressively consistent, with Hamblett's thoughtful compositions drawing some fine performances from the drummer ...
Peter Brotzmann: Solo At Dobialab
by Mark Corroto
Never at a loss for words (or, in his case, notes), saxophonist Peter Brötzmann is, nonetheless, one to speak only when necessary. Meaning, he chooses his sounds carefully. On first blush this fire-breathing legend, who brought forth such monumental free jazz discs as Machine Gun (FMP, 1968), the 1970 session Fuck de Boere: Dedicated ...
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