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Musica Nuda: Banda Larga

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Musica Nuda compie dieci anni e Petra Magoni e Ferruccio Spinetti hanno deciso di festeggiare l'anniversario con un nuovo disco. Banda Larga, uscito il 29 gennaio in CD e in versione digitale, rappresenta un punto d'approdo, ma anche una nuova prospettiva, per il talentuoso duo voice-'n-bass, che per l'occasione abbandona la tradizionale formula esecutiva e sceglie ...

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Joe Lovano US Five: Cross Culture

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Oltre settantacinque minuti di musica, quasi al limite dello spazio fisico a disposizione, quando l'attuale tendenza è quella di avvicinarsi alla durata dei vecchi long-playing. Manie di grandezza? Brani interminabili con altrettanto interminabili sequenze di assoli? Niente di tutto questo, perché Cross Culture ci pare il riuscito tentativo da parte di Joe Lovano di riunire in ...

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Aaron Neville: My True Story

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Dopo aver reinterpretato i classici della soul music (Bring It on Home) e del gospel (I Know I've Been Changed, prodotto da Allen Toussaint) era inevitabile che Aaron Neville si rivolgesse al repertorio del doo-wop, lo stile vocale nato negli anni cinquanta nelle strade di Harlem e Brooklyn che ebbe vastissima popolarità per tutto quel decennio ...

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José James: No Beginning No End

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Che la presenza della voce nel jazz sia un'importante chiave di successo commerciale non è certo una novità [anche la coraggiosa Impulse! consigliò a John Coltrane un bel disco con Johnny Hartman, dopotutto...], ma negli ultimi tempi assistiamo a un ulteriore rinforzarsi di queste strategie di marketing. Se le vicende di casa nostra raccontano di abbinamenti ...

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Thomas Chapin: Never Let Me Go

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by AAJ Italy Staff

L'ascolto di questo cofanetto fa rinascere aspra l'amarezza per la scomparsa prematura, nel 1998 a soli quarant'anni, di Thomas Chapin. Never Let Me Go è un cofanetto di 3 CD che contrasta l'oblio e aggiunge qualche motivo di stupore e riflessione all'esperienza di chi ha apprezzato la fulminea, ricchissima eppure troppo breve vicenda artistica di quel ...

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Wayne Shorter: Without a Net

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Più di un ritorno: un cerchio che si chiude, un destino che si compie. 43 anni dopo Odyssey of Iska e Moto Grosso Feio, registrati in un solo pomeriggio il 26 agosto del 1970, Wayne Shorter e la Blue Note sono di nuovo compagni di strada. Merito di Don Was, neo-timoniere dell'etichetta jazz per antonomasia. Sua ...

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Barry Altschul: The 3dom

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by Mark Corroto

Seems of late, Mr Simon, Mr Garfunkel and the nation have been singing “Coo, coo, ca- choo, Mrs. Robinson" not for Joe DiMaggio or the deceased Ann Bancroft, but for drummer Barry Altschul. Somehow, in the 1980s and '90s we misplaced him. Actually, he moved to Europe, recording for smaller labels before he quietly returned to ...

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Dorian Devins: The Procrastinator

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by C. Michael Bailey

Ginny Carr and the Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet recently paid proper homage to vocalese master Eddie Jefferson with the song “He Was the Cat," from Hustlin' For A Gig (HouseKat Records, 2012). Jefferson, along with Clarence Beeks (King Pleasure), specialized in writing lyrics for and singing the more notable jazz compositions, like “Moody's Mood for Love" ...

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Jose James: No Begining No End

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by Mark F. Turner

With the panache of Marvin Gaye and the smoothness of neo-soul artist D'Angelo, singer José James has been dubbed the “Smokey Robinson for the new generation." That's some heavy but deserving press as James' previous releases- -2010's Blackmagic and 2008's The Dreamer (both on Brownswood Records)--bear witness. With his Blue Note debut, No Beginning No End's ...

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Sean Conly / Alex Harding / Darius Jones / Chad Taylor: Grass Roots

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by Mark F. Turner

From the start of the track “Hotttness" the organized chaos is at first unsettling, yet gives way to a tight hook in the exceptional debut Grass Roots by a newly formed collective who sound like they've been playing together for decades. The two lead voices consist of alto saxophonist wunderkind Darius Jones ( Man'ish Boy (A ...


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