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Mimi Fox: Standards, Old & New

Read "Standards, Old & New" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 30, 2013

Guitarist Mimi Fox's nearly 30-year career has produced several solo standards recitals. Standards, Old & New steps out of the box for some not-so-standard standards from the folk realm (pastoral arrangements of Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land," The Beatles' “She's Leaving Home" and Bob Dylan's “Blowin' In The Wind") and more recent jazz (a ...

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Joey Stuckey: Mixture

Read "Mixture" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 30, 2013

Offering a dynamic repertoire of rich melodic tunes from the light portion of the jazz spectrum, Mixture is a gem of smooth-styled jazz that sparkles all over. The first full-length jazz album from award-winning guitarist Joey Stuckey, an educator, radio and TV personality, among other things, the album presents a versatile set of primarily warm tunes ...

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Teri Roiger: Dear Abbey: the Music of Abbey Lincoln

Read "Dear Abbey: the Music of Abbey Lincoln" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
January 30, 2013

With Dear Abbey, singer Teri Roiger does something remarkable. She interprets thirteen of vocalist Abbey Lincoln's compositions, maintaining the legendary singer's emotive articulation and dramatic delivery, yet marking each song with her own individuality. She thus pays the ultimate homage to an innovator who blazed her own unique artistic path. Roiger's warm contralto, ...

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Jeff Davis: Leaf House

Read "Leaf House" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2013

Jeff Davis è tra i batteristi più richiesti della scena newyorchese e le sue collaborazioni riguardano nomi eccellenti della nuova ondata proveniente dalla grande mela quali Kirk Knuffke, Landon Knoblock, Kris Davis, Jon Irabagon, Eivind Opsvik per citarne alcuni. Davis è anche interessante compositore tant'è che il CD di debutto, We Sleep Outside, uscito per Loyal ...

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Daniele D'Agaro Adriatics Orchestra: Mountains, Love & Humour

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2013

Mountains, Love & Humour è la fresca e vivace testimonianza della partecipazione della Adriatics Orchestra al festival “I suoni della Montagna" di Comeglians, sulle Alpi Carniche udinesi. La band, radunata dal leader sassofonista (oltre che promotore del festival) Daniele D'Agaro, varia di brano in brano in formazione e composizione, e propone un'ampia gamma di spunti sonori ...

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Thinking Plague: Decline and Fall

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2013

Gli americani Thinking Plague si confermano come uno dei gruppi di riferimento del rock progressivo a stelle e strisce, forti di una presenza ultradecennale sulla scena che li porta ora al sesto album sempre sotto la guida del chitarrista Mike Johnson, autore delle sei composizioni nelle quali si struttura il lavoro. I testi, sempre a cura ...

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Elisabeth Engdahl - Thomas Gustafsson: Piece in Peace

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2013

La particolare combinazione strumentale sassofono-organo non presenta molti precedenti di rilievo, soprattutto quando l'organo è quello di una chiesa, probabilmente per via della difficoltà di scrollarsi di dosso il tono eccessivamente austero e chiesastico che l'organo inevitabilmente si porta dietro; ricordiamo solo di sfuggita Aftenland del duo Jan Garbarek e Kjell Johnsen, o più recentemente Rain ...

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Ryan Blotnick: Solo, Volume I

Read "Solo, Volume I" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall
January 29, 2013

Solo, Volume I finds guitarist Ryan Blotnick returning to his roots. Not only has he scaled back to his bare, musical minimum--a man and his guitar--but he's also relocated from New York City to the Amherst/Northampton area of Massachusetts, all in an attempt to get closer to the life and music he knew growing up in ...

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David El-Malek: Music from Source Vol. II

Read "Music from Source Vol. II" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 29, 2013

With distant musical worlds drawing closer via technological invention/access and displayed through exploration by innovative composers, it's no surprise that this effort from French-Israeli saxophonist David El-Malek offers highly intriguing music. The music and Israeli-Arab talents under El-Malek's leadership yield a fascinating brew of Middle Eastern-flavored selections mixed with a smattering of Western jazz improvisation

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Masha Campagne: Like Water, Like Air

Read "Like Water, Like Air" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 29, 2013

Moscow-born/San Francisco-based vocalist Masha Campagne's highly anticipated Like Water, Like Air follows her exciting debut, Caminhos Cruzados--Crossroads (Self Produced, 2007), building on a strong foundation of gorgeous Brazilian music. A devotee of the genre, Campagne continues her longtime association with piano master Weber Iago--a guiding force of her first endeavor and co-producer of this date--in crafting ...