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Charles Flores: Impressions Of Graffiti

Read "Impressions Of Graffiti" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 6, 2013

No album should ever serve as a debut and a posthumously-released pièce de résistance, but such is the case with bassist Charles Flores' Impressions Of Graffiti. At the age of 40, the Grammy Award-winning bassist, who spent time working with pianist Michel Camilo, trumpeter Brian Lynch, reed master Paquito D'Rivera, drummer Dafnis Prieto, and numerous other ...

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Celine Bonacina Trio: Open Heart

Read "Open Heart" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 6, 2013

The baritone saxophone is right at the heart of Céline Bonacina's Open Heart, her second album for ACT Music. This particular sax is too often consigned to the role of “rhythm saxophone," operating at the lower reaches of its register, with only a handful of players making full use of its potential. Bonacina, a French saxophonist ...

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Aaron Neville: My True Story

Read "My True Story" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 6, 2013

My True Story is New Orleans royalty Aaron Neville's first recording in three years and his first for Blue Note Records. Most recently, Neville has been covering familiar territory with I Know I've Been Changed (EMI Gospel, 2010), Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics (Burgundy, 2006), Christmas Prayer (EMI Gospel, 2005) and Nature Boy: The ...

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Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Read "Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 6, 2013

It's little surprise that the recordings comprising Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 were captured in the wake of the recording of the jazz icon's seminal album In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) and prior to the release of the even more significant followup, Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970), in the spring of the ...

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Christian Marclay - Toshio Kajiwara - Dj Olive: djTRIO: 21 September 2002

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 6, 2013

Oggi è tra gli artisti multimediali più apprezzati a livello mondiale, specialmente dopo il meritato successo del favoloso “The Clock" [strabiliante e straniante montaggio, lungo 24 ore, di spezzoni di film e programmi televisivi in cui l'ora è sincronizzata con quella del fruitore], ma è stato nei decenni precedenti che Christian Marclay ha progressivamente conquistato una ...

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Paul Giallorenzo feat.: Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Tim Daisy: PG 3

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 6, 2013

PG 3 è la testimonianza discografica dell'incontro avvenuto nel 2007 in quel di Chicago tra il poderoso bassista norvegese Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, che di quella città si può considerare cittadino onorario, il batterista Tim Daisy (Ken Vandermark e dintorni) ed il pianista Paul Giallorenzo. Nome non particolarmente conosciuto al di fuori dei patri confini Giallorenzo è ...

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Roy Panebianco: Soulside

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 6, 2013

Per il chitarrista cosentino Roy Panebianco Soulside è il primo lavoro da leader, a capo di un quartetto timbricamente interessante completato da Daniele Scannapieco al tenore, Leonardo Corradi all'organo Hammond e Fabio Accardi alla batteria. Si tratta di un album composto da sette originali scritti da Panebianco - che ne riassumono un percorso in atto da ...

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Bill Doerrfeld: A Passing Moment

Read "A Passing Moment" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 6, 2013

Bill Doerrfeld, nato a Chicago nel 1964, inizia a suonare il pianoforte a 4 anni. A tredici anni viene invitato dalla Yamaha a suonare concerti di piano solo in Giappone. Ottiene poi importanti riconoscimenti (per esempio il premio della rivista Downbeat a soli 16 anni) e prosegue nella sua carriera di pianista abile sia sul versante ...

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Old Time Musketry: Different Times

Read "Different Times" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
February 5, 2013

Brooklyn-based Old Time Musketry is a band whose moniker foreshadows one aspect of the sound it's after, steeped in folk music and Americana. But the quartet's debut, Different Times, contains so much more. First and foremost, Old Time Musketry is a jazz quartet. Sure there's quite a bit of accordion and clarinet on this recording, but ...

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Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project

Read "The Orchestrion Project" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 5, 2013

With The Orchestrion Project (Eagle Eye Media, 2012), Pat Metheny provided a detailed visual look into the workings of the guitarist's complex, custom-built conglomeration of instruments--triggered by pneumatics, solenoids and computer programs--that took this orchestral successor to the player piano (the first known version being the panharmonicon, in 1805) not just into a new century, but ...