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Beatriz Aguiar: Nomade

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2013

Cantante uruguayana (è nata a Montevideo) da anni residente in Olanda, Beatriz Aguiar è una delle interpreti di musica latino-americana più note in Europa. In questo lavoro ricco di collaboratori si mette alla prova su un repertorio piuttosto vario, in parte originale, ma con alcuni brani che fondono le atmosfere d'oltreoceano con le loro radici mediterranee. ...

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Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 4

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2013

Un uomo e la sua chitarra. In completa solitudine, dividendosi tra la cinquecentesca Civitella Ranieri, nel cuore antico dell'Umbria, e la cucina del sassofonista Matthieu Metzger, Marc Ducret approda al quarto capitolo del progetto Tower. A documentarlo, come i precedenti, la rediviva Ayler Records, etichetta con doppio passaporto: svedese di nascita, francese d'adozione. Quarto capitolo che, ...

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Robert Mitchell: The Glimpse

Read "The Glimpse" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 31, 2013

Pianist Robert Mitchell offers insight into a very particular musical place on The Glimpse: the world of solo, left hand only piano. The left hand: the hand responsible for the rhythm, the hand that keeps the beat, that lies in thrall to the melodic, excitable and exciting right hand. Why on earth would anyone want to ...

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Cliff Hines: Wanderlust

Read "Wanderlust" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 31, 2013

The melting pot mentality of New Orleans is responsible, in some part, for the existence and evolution of jazz in the first place, so it should come as no shock that it still serves a central hub for creativity and experimentation through combinatorial musical means. Guitarist/vocalist/composer Cliff Hines is a product of this environment, but he's ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Arabic Violin Bass Piano Trio – Suite in Four Movements

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2013

Il quarantunenne pianista israeliano (ma australiano d'adozione) Yitzhak Yedid guida in questo stimolante lavoro un trio felicemente in equilibrio fra retaggio etnico, scrittura di ascendenza classico-occidentale e sperimentalismo di marca jazzistica. Yedid, in effetti, ha praticato nel corso degli anni tutti e tre questi ambiti, in qualche misura effigiati ciascuno - a volere un po' schematizzare ...

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Jon Hamar: Hymn

by Hrayr Attarian
January 31, 2013

Seattle bassist Jon Hamar's third release as a leader is an intimate and collaborative effort. The textured harmonies with hints of western Classical influences that are heard on his prior CDs have further matured on Hymn, thanks, in no small part, to his choice of sidemen. Reed multi-instrumentalist Todd DelGiudice (a past collaborator ...

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Rossano Baldini: It Won't Be Late

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2013

Non ha avuto fretta di pubblicare il suo primo disco, Rossano Baldini, ed ora mostra doti raramente riscontrabili in un debutto, di per sé arduo come il piano solo. Diplomato presso il conservatorio S. Cecilia ha affiancato al rigoroso studio della classica quello del jazz e del blues, trovando supporto e ispirazione nel padre musicista. Tra ...

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Michael McNeill Trio: Passageways

Read "Passageways" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 31, 2013

Michael McNeill's debut as a leader introduces a fresh perspective to the popular piano trio format. His compositions don't progress in a linear manner, nor do they strive to settle on time-tested harmonic or rhythmic structures; instead, they insistently explore the sonic possibilities within the immediate, fragile and equal interplay that the Buffalo, NY-based pianist-composer has ...

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The Todd Marcus Quartet: Inheritance

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2013

"The Adventures of Kang and Kodos," brano d'apertura di Inheritance, è neo-bop allo stato puro, ritmo vertiginoso, assoli fulminanti, call and response serrati, un senso di urgenza che sostiene gli oltre sette minuti del brano. “Herod," la traccia successiva divisa in due parti, arriva perciò a sorpresa, così impregnata di non troppo velati colori mediorientiali, andatura ...

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Daniel Lantz Trio: Plays Bond

Read "Plays Bond" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 30, 2013

James Bond has a taste for the finer things in life; Aston Martin automobiles, Tom Ford suits, Omega Seamaster timepieces and mysteriously beautiful company from the fairer sex are just a few things that Bond bonds with these days, but jazz, sadly, doesn't make the list. While Monty Norman's famed “James Bond Theme" certainly paints a ...