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Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors

Read "Ancestors" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo are grand old men in the annals of adventurous jazz, having played in a dizzying variety of settings through more than five decades. More to the point, both have amply shown a capacity for nuanced playing in demanding, interactive improvisational formats. An intimate duet performance by the pair, ...

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Chris Barber: Memories of My Trip

Read "Memories of My Trip" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

You will find very few jazz retrospectives more thoroughly, warmly inviting than Memories of My Trip, which celebrates six decades of recording and performing by one of Britain's most enduring traditional jazz musicians--trombonist, bassist and bandleader Chris Barber. Presented across two CDs (one subtitled Blues, Jazz & Gospel and the other subtitled Blues & Jazz), Barber's ...

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Fabrizio Bosso - Luciano Biondini: Face to Face

Read "Face to Face" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Continua il processo di rivalutazione di uno strumento affascinante come la fisarmonica, per troppo tempo relagata a ruolo minore o indotta a semplice contorno folcloristico. In questo caso è Luciano Biondini ad elevarne la cifra stilistica in uno splendido lavoro con Fabrizio Bosso. Face to Face è il loro confronto in studio, condensato in dieci passaggi ...

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Lars Hollmer: With Floury Hands (Sketches)

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il fisarmonicista svedese Lars Hollmer, scomparso prematuramente alla fine del 2008 a soli 60 anni, è stato tra i fondatori del movimento “Rock in Opposition" sul finire degli anni '70, che raccoglieva un collettivo di musicisti e gruppi dell'area progressive europea alla ricerca di un'alternativa all'industria musicale dell'epoca. Il suo gruppo, Samla Mammas Manna, vi si ...

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Wadada Leo Smith - Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors

Read "Ancestors" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Mai titolo fu più centrato di questo: ancestrale, storico e ampiamente storicizzato, è il ruolo giocato dai due protagonisti di questo bellissimo album nell'evolversi di un jazz di ricerca degli ultimi quarantacinque anni o giù di lì, e ancestrale è il tono stesso del disco, con quel misto di solennità e ritualismo che magistralmente si addice ...

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Ben Holmes Quartet: Anvil of the Lord

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Con l'uscita numero venti della Skirl Records, si apre forse un nuovo fronte nella missione dell'etichetta fondata nel 2006 da Chris Speed e diventata in breve tempo un punto di riferimento imprescindibile per capire i fermenti di Brooklyn e dintorni. Sulla sua trasversalità, sugli incroci anche stravaganti che ne caratterizzano il catalogo, sul furore creativo dei ...

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Frode Gjerstad: Kampen

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Realizzato in un vinile a tiratura limitata dalla ottima No Business, questo lavoro testimonia un bel concerto norvegese del quartetto che vede il cornettista Bobby Bradford in compagnia di alcuni dei più significativi improvvisatori norvegesi di oggi, dalle ance di Frode Gjerstad alla ritmica di Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love [The Thing].I primi ...

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Nutty: Jetsetter Jazz

Read "Jetsetter Jazz" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal

The outsourcing of cover material in jazz has become relatively common practice. The vast Great American Songbook, with diversity ranging from popular standards to show tunes and beyond, has provided a goldmine for improvisation, as has gospel, blues and soul music. So the question arises: what about rock? Why hasn't this genre contributed more to the ...

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Donny McCaslin: Casting For Gravity

Read "Casting For Gravity" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin has bravely developed a uniquely personal sound that proudly claims its heritage in the long mainstream of jazz, yet sounds freshly innovative. He has released eleven albums under his leadership, among which Recommended Tools (Greenleaf, 2008), with its punishing, revealing trio format, was a high-water mark. McCaslin deploys sheets-of-sound density inherited from ...

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Tim Carey: Room 114

Read "Room 114" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Dedicated to his father, Seattle-based composer, educator and bassist Tim Carey's debut, Room 114, is a very intimate affair. Carey has been a professional musician for the past nine years and during that time he has honed his skills with such luminaries as trombonist Julian Priester, as well as, creative ethnic jazz ensembles. ...


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