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Carlos Alves "Zingaro": Live At Total Meeting

Read "Live At Total Meeting" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 2, 2013

The cover to Live At Total Meeting depicts a maze, and that's a good metaphor for free improvised music. No-one knows where they are going or how they will get there. Even whether they have arrived or not is open to dispute. How the participants achieve resolution (of a sort)--negotiated, as it often is, without verbalization--is ...

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North America Jazz Alliance: The Montreal Sessions

Read "The Montreal Sessions" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 2, 2013

A producer's wish to recapture the sound of an accordion legend's band set the ball in motion for this recording. Producer Peter Maxymych wanted to “recreate a sound that was heard in clubs and other venues in the 1960s and '70s." Maxymych goes on to note that “accordion was the lead instrument in those groups and ...

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Atolon: Concret

by John Eyles
February 2, 2013

Atolón is a Barcelona trio consisting of Ferran Fages and Alfredo Costa Monteiro--who, as a duo, are known as Cremaster--plus trumpeter Ruth Barberán. The single 35- minute track was recorded at Can Felipa, in Barcelona, in January 2011. Although recorded by Another Timbre proprietor Simon Reynell, the album is actually released on the St. Petersburg-based Intonema, ...

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Ilia Skibinsky: The Passage

Read "The Passage" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 1, 2013

The youthful saxophonist/composer Ilia Skibinsky strikes a thoughtful pose, gazing down at his horn on the nicely designed cover of his debut, The Passage. The substitution of a much older visage would have been believable, given the depth and beauty of the playing, and the writing on the set's nine original compositions.Born in Russia, ...

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Scott McLemore: Remote Location

Read "Remote Location" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 1, 2013

While musicians relocate all the time, moving from the vibrant New York scene to more remote environs might seem an odd choice. After eight years in NYC playing with artists including guitarist Ben Monder and saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Scott McLemore relocated with wife Sunna Gunnlaugs to her native Iceland following the pianist's decade-plus American stay. ...

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Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo: Melody Magic

Read "Melody Magic" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 1, 2013

In the same adventurous spirit as Polkastra's “I Do" The Wedding Album (Ancalagon, 2013), a spirit that transcends genre, style, and even musical phyla, guitarists Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo, using the vehicle of the Hot Club gypsy swing jazz to transform a recital ranging from Beethoven and Bizet to The Beatles and Sting. Vignola provides ...

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Eberhard Weber: Résumé

Read "Résumé" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 1, 2013

Composer/bassist Eberhard Weber has been one of the heritage artists to define and exemplify the standards of Manfred Eicher's ECM Records. Résumé continues the tradition of both the label and Weber with an unusually structured collection of live performances culled from more extended pieces. This global collection of bass solos, culled from live Jan Garbarek Group ...

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Mats Eilertsen: SkyDive

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2013

SkyDive è il sesto album da leader per il contrabbassista norvegese Mats Eilertsen ed è un'ottima dimostrazione di come si possa ottenere musica di grande efficacia e modernità attraverso un lavoro intenso sul timbro strumentale e sugli equilibri all'interno di un gruppo. Eilertsen si è fatto conoscere con una registrazione per la ECM -The Source realizzato ...

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Brötzmann - Satoh - Moriyama: Yatagarasu

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2013

Qualcuno potrebbe dire che con Brötzmann si sa più o meno sempre come va a finire. Energia pura, fuoco, viscere, liricità dell'urlo, libertà sonora. Giunto al traguardo dei 70 anni, interprete di una personalissima versione del concetto di changing same così centrale in quell'espressività afroamericana da cui ha preso sempre le doverose distanze, il sassofonista tedesco ...

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40Twenty: Jacob Garchik - Jacob Sacks - David Ambrosio - Vinnie Sperrazza: 40Twenty

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2013

40 Twenty è un quartetto, composto da alcuni tra i più interessanti musicisti residenti a Brooklyn, il cui nome rimanda alla pratica in voga nei night-club degli anni cinquanta quando i jazzisti suonavano set di quaranta minuti ciascuno con intervalli di venti minuti tra un'esibizione e l'altra. Ma la musica contenuta nell'omonimo disco è assai distante ...