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Metallic Taste of Blood: Metallic Taste of Blood

Read "Metallic Taste of Blood" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

The album title could automatically allude to an outing by a hardcore death-metal band, yet Metallic Taste of Blood's diverse lineup touches on this quotient of loudly intense fare to coincide with other voluminous, enterprising factors. Here, guitarist/producer Eraldo Bernocchi teams with Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin, keyboardist Jamie Saft (John Zorn, Bad Brains, Black Shabbis) ...

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Enrico Zanisi Trio: Life Variations

Read "Life Variations" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Fatta eccezione per “In the Wee Small Hour of the Morning" di David A. Mann l'album Life Variations contiene solo originali firmati da Enrico Zanisi, leader di un interessante trio completato da Alessandro Paternesi alla batteria e dal contrabbassista Joe Rehemer. Il lavoro fa parte della serie CAM Jazz Presents, con la quale l'etichetta italiana cerca ...

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Steve Lacy - Kent Carter - Andrea Centazzo: Lost in June

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Riversamento in stereo da un'audiocassetta mono, questo CD risulta ovviamente piuttosto lontano dall'hi-fi (specie nel brano iniziale, quanto mai secco, povero di profondità), il che non significa certo che una performance di questo livello (live al Lirico di Milano il 4 giugno 1977) non meritasse di essere disseppellita dall'oblio. Vi confluiscono alcune delle più riconoscibili peculiarità ...

Article: Album Review

Jurek Jagoda: Songs Without Words

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Lo riceviamo con un po' di ritardo ma vale la pena parlarne. Uscito nel 2010, il debutto discografico del pianista polacco Jurek Jagoda non è passato inosservato nella terra di Chopin. Nato a Danzica 39 anni fa, Jagoda non ha percorso la classica carriera di chi si fa le ossa nei gruppi dei leader già affermati ...

Article: Album Review

Nick Moran Trio: No Time Like Now

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by AAJ Italy Staff

A cinque anni dal precedente Messenger, il chitarrista newyorchese Nick Moran esce con un nuovo disco in trio: No Time Like Now. Con lui sono l'organista Brad Whiteley ed il batterista Chris Benham. L'organico non è certo nuovo ed effettivamente il repertorio che propone è proprio quello che ci si attende da una formazione del genere, ...

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Jim McAuley: Gongfarmer 36

Read "Gongfarmer 36" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

As its title suggests, Gongfarmer 36 is the belated follow-up to guitarist Jim McAuley's Gongfarmer 18 (Nine Winds Records, 2005). But the seven-year delay is not surprising, as additions to McAuley's discography tend to arrive sporadically--the last being Vignes (Long Song, 2009), with the wonderful Acoustic Guitar Trio which brought him together with Nels Cline and ...

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Wave Mechanics Union: Further To Fly

Read "Further To Fly" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Rock music has been mined to the nth degree by jazz prospectors. Trumpeter Miles Davis was doing Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper a quarter century back; pianist Brad Mehldau has made Radiohead his own; jazz legend Herbie Hancock spoke of new standards by Peter Gabriel and Nirvana; and organ guru Dr. Lonnie Smith has delivered a ...

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Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii: Muku

Read "Muku" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

It's surprising that trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii--partners in music and life--have only recorded five duet CDs during the course of their incredibly prolific and artistically fecund collaboration. As Fujii wryly explains in her liner notes, each of their duet recordings is different--some are entirely freely improvised, others consist solely of compositions written by ...

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Jon Balke: Magnetic Works 1993-2001

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Questo doppio CD raccoglie una selezione della produzione della Magnetic North Orchestra di Jon Balke, tratta dagli album Further (1994), Solarized (1999) e Kyanos (2002). La riedizione, opportuna e interessante, permette di ricordare e tener conto di quanto si muoveva in Norvegia a cavallo del nuovo secolo, mentre l'accostamento dei tre lavori consente di apprezzare in ...

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A.I.R.E.: Apathic Avant-Jazz Anthems

Read "Apathic Avant-Jazz Anthems" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Quattro musicisti che potremmo definire irriverenti e certamente non solo per i titoli che affibbiano alle loro composizioni o al CD in questione. Quattro musicisti che si/ci divertono, che giocano con i generi, che amano depistare l'ascoltatore e sorprenderlo a piè sospinto. Quattro musicisti che non si prendono troppo sul serio, anche se la loro musica ...


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